Chewy Chestnuts Recipes

20 BEST WAYS TO USE CHESTNUTS

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• Select your favorite recipe.
• Organize all the required ingredients.
• Prep a chestnut recipe in 30 minutes or less!

CHEWY CHESTNUTS

Steps:

• Wrap water chestnuts with bacon, securing with toothpicks. Arrange on a large baking sheet. Cover with barbecue sauce. Marinate in the refrigerator 12 to 24 hours.
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• Remove wrapped water chestnuts from the marinade and place on another large baking sheet. Bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the bacon is evenly brown but not too crisp.

WATER CHESTNUT CAKE RECIPE

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• Method: Grease the pan with a little of oil in order to help remove the cake from it at ease. Dissolve the water chestnut flour with 300 ml of water and cornflour completely. Drain through a fine sieve. Stir in 2 teaspoons of oil. Set aside. Put the other 300 ml of water, together with white sugar, chopped brown sugar into a deep pot. Cook until the sugar dissolves completely. Bring it to boil. Add the water chestnuts. Reduce the heat to low. Stir in the dissolved water chestnut flour mixture. Immediately stir to combine well into a thick but smooth batter. Make sure not to let the batter stick to the bottom. Pour the batter into the greased pan. Use a teaspoon, wet with some water, to level the surface. Cover with foil and steam in a wok or steamer, for about 30 to 35 minutes, or until the cake turns translucent, or an inserted needle comes out clean. Remove from the wok and let cool a bit. Remove the cake from pan and slice into pieces. Serve warm immediately. Or pan fry slices before serving. The leftover can be kept in fridge, covered, for up to a week or so.

CHEWY PECAN SQUARES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix brown sugar, baking mix, eggs, pecans, margarine, and vanilla extract together in a bowl; spread into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until brown and bubbling, 25 to 30 minutes. Cut into 2-inch squares.

ROASTED CHESTNUT STUFFING

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• Preheat the oven to 350˚F.
• Melt butter in a large skillet.
• Add chopped onions, carrots, and celery. Cook until soft and translucent, stirring to keep from browning.
• Add chopped chestnuts, herbs, and bone broth. Mix to combine the ingredients.
• Add bread cubes and incorporate well. If the stuffing is too dry, add more broth however, it should not be soggy.
• If stuffing your turkey: stuff turkey and roast for the appropriate time and temperature.
• If baking the stuffing separately, bake the stuffing in the large cast-iron skillet with lid or any other baking dish with cover (you can use aluminum foil) for 30 minutes.
• After 30 minutes, take lid or foil off and bake for another 10 minutes uncovered.
• Pro tip: if you are baking the stuffing separately you can drizzle turkey drippings over it to get a better flavor.

WATER CHESTNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Soak the flour with 150ml water and stir until smooth. Set aside for 10 minutes. Then re-stir. You can strain the mixture if necessary.
• In a deep plan, add the remaining water and the sugar pieces, heat over slow fire until the sugar is completely dissolved. Bring to boil and add minced fresh water chestnut in. Stop fire until the content begin to boil again.
• After the sugar water boils, stir the sugar water slowly to the square pan for soaking the flour in first step immediately. During the process, keep stirring the flour water to avoid settling to the bottom. After adding the boiling sugar water, the batter will become really thick. Shake it slightly to trowel.
• Set up the steamer and wok and then steam the batter for around 20 minutes. To check whether the batter is completely done, insert a toothpick in and see whether it is clean after pulling out.
• Cook down completely and then cut it into thick slices. In summer days, it can be directly served cold after stored in fridge. And in winter days, pan-frying the cake with a small amount of oil and serve hot.