Chestnut Delights  2023/11/20 

Chestnuts contain abundant vitamin C; can help to maintain teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles in normal function; prevent and cure osteoporosis, soreness and weakness in waist and legs, muscle pain, weakness; delay human aging.

Every year in November, chestnuts are harvested abundantly, particularly fresh and delicious. This is the best time to use them as ingredients to make delights.

1. Chestnut Braised Chicken    2023-11-20

Ingredients: 

Chicken thighs, wingettes, chestnuts, green onion, shallots, ginger slices, oyster sauce, soya sauce, dark soya sauce, sugar, salt, Shaoxing wine, corn starch, water, vegetable oil

Garnish: green onion, parsley

Marinade: salt, soya sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, corn starch,  Shaoxing wine, ginger, green onion leaves, pepper

Method:

1. Wash chestnuts with water, steam to 70% done

2. Wash chicken with water and dry with cloth

3. Add 1 tea spoon of salt, 1 tea spoon of sugar, 1 tea spoon of soya sauce, 1 table spoon of oyster sauce, 1 table spoon of corn starch,  Shaoxing wine, ginger, green onion (white part), pepper, marinade for 15 minutes.

4. Heat up a wok, pour some oil, fry chicken until golden brown, pick up and put aside

5. Put shallot and fry. Then add ginger and green onion to fry till fragrant.

6. Add chicken and stir fry, then add chestnuts, fry for awhile, add Shaoxing wine

7. Add water, 2 table spoon of oyster sauce, 1 tea spoon of soya sauce,  dark soya sauce, salt and pepper. Cover the wok with lid to braise under low fire for about 15-20 minutes. Evaporate most of the sauce, leaving enough sauce in the wok. Mix corn starch with water to thicken the sauce.

Chestnut Braised Chicken Sauce Mixed Rice: Freshly cooked rice mixed with green peas, carrots, corn and Chestnut Braised Chicken Sauce; make 3 pillars and place them in the center of a plate.

Place chicken pieces and chestnuts around the mixed rice. Put a  chestnut on each pillar. Put a green onion in the center of rice pillars. Place parsley beside chicken wingette. 

2. Mashed Chestnut Purple and White Yam   2023-11-13

Ingredients: chestnuts, purple yam, white sweet potatoes, mayonnaise, maple syrup

Garnish: rosemary

Method: Remove shell of chestnut, skin of purple yam and white sweet potatoes; steam cook. Mash yam and sweet potatoes. Add mayonnaise, maple syrup, mix well, form cylinder shape,  Place chestnut on top, rosemary on mashed white sweet potatoes.              

3. Chestnut Bubur Cha Cha Layer Cake     2020-11-3  

Ingredient: chestnuts, sweet potatoes, taros, red beans, green beans, black eyed peas, lily

Sauce: coconut cream, maple syrup, salt

These ingredients can be used for making Bubur Cha Cha soup.

Method:

Remove shells of chestnuts and skins of sweet potatoes; steam cook. Soak all other ingredients individually in water for 3 hours; sieve to dry; steam cook separately for each ingredient. Mash chestnuts, sweet potatoes, taros, red beans, green beans, black eyed peas to form soft mass. Add coconut cream, maple syrup and salt, mix well.  Place each ingredient one by one on top of each other to form a pillar; each layer has different colour. Finally, place chestnuts, lily, red beans, black eyed peas on the top, put green beans and taros, red beans and lily on the plate.

4. Chestnut Crispy Basket     2021-2-19

Ingredients: chestnuts, purple yams, red beans, filo dough, unsalted butter

Sauce: mayonnaise, maple syrup, salt 

Garnish: dill

Method:

Remove shells of chestnuts and skins of purple yam; steam cook. Soak red beans in water for 3 hours; sieve to dry; steam cook. Soak red beans and chestnuts in mixture of maple syrup and salt for 2 hours. Melt butter. Use filo dough to form a basket, brush each filo leaf with melted butter, bake the basket at 350F to golden brown. Mash yams to soft mass, add mayonnaise, maple syrup and salt, mix well. Put mashed yam on the basket. Put chestnuts and red beans on top of mashed yams. Put dill in the center for garnish.

5. Chestnut Purple Yam Cake    2021-12-1

Ingredients:  chestnuts, purple yams, red beans, green beans, honey, salt

Method:

Remove shells of chestnuts and skins of purple yam; steam cook.

Soak red beans and green beans in water for 3 hours; sieve to dry; steam cook. Soak red beans, green beans and chestnuts in mixture of honey and salt for 2 hours.  Mash purple yam, add crushed chestnut, honey and salt, mix well, form cylinder shape, place chestnut and red bean on top; scatter red beans and green beans on the plate.

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Publisher： Chef Kar Delight