Help me use up this tin of sweet chestnut puree

hornetgirl

I'm trying to use up food I've got before buying too much more, and am not doing too badly overall.
However, I've got one tin I'm stuck with and just don't know what to use it for - it's sweetened chestnut puree, bought in a mad moment in a Fench supermarket!
Has anyone got any recipes I could use it in please? Preferably ones that don't need a host of other expensive ingredients to go with it!

foreverskint

I would mix it with a small amount of plain melted chocolate and some whipped cream ( just a small pot would do ) and use it to fill a homemade chocolate sponge, or a home made meringue shell (large one).


See delias web site she's usually got some other recipies for this sort of thing. Or go to www.bbc.co.uk/food. If you type in the ingredients you have it will bring up a list recipies that use the ingredients.

have fun;)

Lillibet_2

Mix it in with mashed potato?
Water it down & use on pasta with mixed veggies instead of cheese sauce?
Serve with poached fish instead of a potato dish?

malolo

You could make a chocolate chesnut roulade type thing or leave the chocolate out and just have plain chesnut.

moggins

And don't berate yourself too badly, I have a jar of coconut spread that wouldn't spread if it had been left in the sun for 12 hours and the kids won't touch it anyway. I keep looking at it and thinking I really should throw it away but the thrifty side of me won't allow such waste

Allexie

This chestnut amd chocolate cake sounds good and quick... no cooking involved!



CAKE RECIPE

Yoga_Girl

Unsweetened chestnuts you could use for a nut roast, but as its the sweetened type you've got I'd probably go for a pudding.

White chocolate and chestnut pudding:

Mix chesnuts with rum/kirsh (optional) and sugar if required( depends on how sweet the stuff if you've got)
Place in a saucepan with white chocolate pieces and some butter (8 oz butter to 1 lb chestnut puree). Melt then set aside to cool.
Whip half pint cream and fold into the mixture.
Spoon into individual dishes and chill.

I guess you could adapt this recipe to whatever you've got in, eg use dark chocolate if you can't find white.

Give it a go, what's the worse that can happen!

Queenie

I had the same dilema earlier this year!!! (I had bought 3 tins )

I made a fruit bread in my breadmaker which never cooked thoroughly in the middle - tried to rescue it by putting in the oven, but failed.

So, I made a bread and butter pudding with it using the chestnut puree as the "butter" - served with custard, my fussy male household were absolutely delighted with it. (Only problem, they wanted me to make it again!).

Second tin was used as a filling for a chocolate sandwich cake.

Third tin was used by putting blobs of the puree into merignue nests and topping with a scoop of icecream.

It's very sweet - so not really my cup of tea, but even I managed to eat those concoctions

mink35

moggins wrote:

And don't berate yourself too badly, I have a jar of coconut spread that wouldn't spread

Could you use it in a curry moggins? Some curries definitely have coconut in it.

moggins

mink it's weird stuff but I will try something like that with it I think, Can't work out what possessed me to buy it in the first place.

Queenie

moggins wrote:

And don't berate yourself too badly, I have a jar of coconut spread that wouldn't spread if it had been left in the sun for 12 hours and the kids won't touch it anyway. I keep looking at it and thinking I really should throw it away but the thrifty side of me won't allow such waste

Have you tried standing it in a bowl of hot water - it should soften it enough to get it out of the jar - then, add a bit of milk, little by little and beat it back into a paste/spread.

HTH