Edible chestnuts are a nutritious and healthy product. One of the advantages of edible chestnut is its versatility. You can add these valuable fruits to sweet and unsweetened dishes, you can roast chestnuts, bake, cook, serve as an independent dish, as part of salads, and so on. And from the fruits of edible chestnut, you can make delicious cookies, which also does not require baking.
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You will need
- - edible chestnuts - 400 g;
- - honey - 1-2 tbsp.
Instruction manual
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First you need to prepare chestnuts. This can be done in advance, not necessarily just before the manufacture of cookies.
Edible chestnuts, without removing the shell, need to be soaked in cold water. It is best to fill the fruits with cold water and leave overnight.
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Then you need to bake the chestnuts. To do this, pre-pierce with a needle or sewed the shell in several places or make accurate cuts with a sharp knife.
Edible chestnuts, prepared for further processing, lay in one layer on a dry baking sheet and put in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Soak for 20-40 minutes depending on the size of the chestnuts. Small chestnuts, to avoid overdrying, bake at a temperature of 180 degrees.
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Baked chestnuts need to be peeled. It is easier to do if you first press on the chestnut with your palm, then carefully remove the shell. The peel remaining on the core must be removed with a knife. After this, boil the chestnuts in boiling water for about 10 minutes. The kernels will become soft and juicy. Pass the chestnuts thus prepared through a meat grinder. Mix the resulting powdery powder with honey. In this case, add honey gradually, in small portions. The result should be a fairly plastic, but at the same time slightly loose mass.
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Take cookie cutters and tamp the dough tightly into these cookie cutters. Then carefully remove the cookies and keep in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
And you can serve chestnut cookies immediately.
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It should be remembered that cookies from edible chestnut are very satisfying, you can’t eat a lot of it.
To diversify the taste of chestnut cookies, you can use various spices: ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon. You can also add grated citrus zest to the dough to enrich the taste and nutritional properties of cookies.
Edible chestnut cookies can be consumed during periods of Orthodox fasting, as well as vegetarians. Such cookies are also suitable for people who eat according to the norms of a gluten-free and case-free diet.