The market · Nuts and seeds · Southern Europe, East Asia

Chestnuts

The one nut that's more starch than fat: sweet, mealy, and at its best roasted.

sweet · mealy
Chestnutsjust in

What to do with it

Classics built on it
FujianBak changA pyramid of soy-darkened sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves round braised pork belly, mushroom, chestnut and salted egg yolk.No one here has made it yet

Goes with

mushroombrussels sproutchocolate

Knowing it

Where to buy
Fresh in autumn; vacuum-packed and cooked the rest of the year.
Worth knowing
Score an X in each before roasting, or they burst.

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