What is the best way to cook sweet chestnuts/horsechestnuts?
Horse chestnuts aren’t readily edible. “Conkers, unlike the seeds of the sweet chestnut, are not easily edible, as they contain poisonous saponins, along with aescin, which can cause vomiting and paralysis. They can be rendered safe by crushing and leaching with water, or by slow cooking, but the remaining food is largely starch.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A843013 Sweet chestnuts can be roasted: Ingredients ======== 1kg/2¼lb chestnuts Method ====== 1. Heat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. 2. Using a small, sharp knife, cut a cross into the skin of each nut. Put in a roasting tin and bake until the skins open and the insides are tender, about 30 minutes. 3. Serve in paper bags, if you like. To eat, peel away the tough outer skin and the pithy white inner skin to get to the sweet kernel.
well… put em on a plate in the oven… medium heat… for about half an hour… or till they start exploding, which ever comes first… and i dont think you eat horse chestnuts… they are conkers, with prickly skins.. and HARD brwon nuts inside sweet chestnuts are shaped like brazil nuts, and hte inside is white… and when we were kids, (50yrs ago) we put em on the coal shovel and put em in the fire…
