Hot Chestnuts mmmmmmmmmmmm

JENJEN30X

Hi,
I got some chestnuts for the first time this year and roasted them, they were lovely a really sweet taste.
Does anyone else do them for Christmas and would you put them out with the Christmas dinner and gravy?
I think they would be nice with sprouts,but any other ideas will be welcome.
Jen

katskorner

We ALWAYS put them out with Christmas dinner. It isn't the same without chestnuts... And we always have fresh homemade chestnut and cranberry stuffing and sausagement too. Unbeatable..

tru

Hot chestnuts YUM

We eat them on Christmas Eve, perfect while drinking mulled wine and mulled cider MMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :beer:

Sallys_Savings

mmmmmm I'm sitting her drooling lol

I love chestnuts

ok_go

I'm making sprouts with bacon and chestnut butter this year

Sallys_Savings

ok go..how do you do that please?

maow425

When I've done chestnuts with roast before, I just put them (peeled) in a ceramic roasting dish with some sprouts, drizzled over maple syrup and bunged in the oven until the sprouts were tender. Mmmmmmmmm.... Tried it with frozen chestnut and srpout mix too, and it came out just as yummy!

Smiley_Mum

When I visited the Algarve one year in the Autumn you could buy little bags of freshly roasted chestnuts, they were lovely and didn't cost much either, 50p a bag I think. Lovely, kept your hands warm too on the walk back to the apartment.

reehsetin

we just managed to get the chestnuts to exploade in the oven - oops

needmoney

I LOVE roasted chestnuts, you used to be able to get them on every corner in London, don't know about now.

Love my own homemade chestnut stuffing too but I HATE peeling the b****y things.

Smiley_Mum

needmoney wrote:

I LOVE roasted chestnuts, you used to be able to get them on every corner in London, don't know about now.

Love my own homemade chestnut stuffing too but I HATE peeling the b****y things.

Couldn't you just use a hammer instead...

I got some in Tescos tonight, bl@@dy expensive though, £2.00 for half a kilo. Perhaps I could have got R&R as it stated on the label that it was £3.99 a kilo.... Mine are roasting in the oven just now, haven't exploded...yet.

Re peeling them. Before you put them in the oven just stab the top of them, the lighter part of the shell, with a knife and make a slit to let the air out. Do that with the lot and then roast in the oven at 220 C for half an hour. They will split down the side and you just have to pull the shell off, no hassles.