roast chestnuts

[cookiecookuk]

i have got some fresh chestnuts to nibble on christmas eve with a glass of sloe gin.

now normally i  pierce skin put them under the grill.but how does anybody else cook them.

i know you can do them in microwave but how long Etc.....

[chickengrandma-2008]

I usually boil mine for about 15 to 20 minutes.

[cookiecookuk]

do you pierce them first.

[chickengrandma-2008]

You don't need to, but it makes them easier to peel.  I cut a line right down one side.  It's easier to peel them when they are still hot, once cold they're a b*gger!!  

[merc1_clocks]

 I used to love roast chestnuts...

till I found a wormie thing in one ...

& it was still alive !

A roast chestnut has never passed my lips since

[chickengrandma-2008]

There's only one thing worse than finding a wormy thing in any kind of fruit, veg or nut, and that's finding only HALF a worm!!!  

If you stop eating every kind of veg you find an insect in, you'll die of starvation. 

[ed_blackadder_1]

I usually roast my chestnuts, put a small slit in the flat side just so they are easier to peel, but I believe you can boil them. Not sure about microwave would they not explode?

Sadly they don't always get to the table as I tend to eat them before they get there.

[captainbovine]

I did microwave them once, I put them in a dish and did them for 3 minutes.

they went on fire, stuck to the dish and even burnt through the glaze, that dish had a black mark in the bottom for ever!!!!!

wouldn't advise you nuke them....

nothing tastes as good as doing them in the ash pan on a coal fire though.