Open-Fire Chestnuts

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You've heard the vacation song; present devour the chestnuts. Roasting them implicit a, well, unfastened occurrence (in this case, charcoal) enhances their saccharine spirit and creamy texture. You request to slit their skin, oregon they mightiness detonate portion cooking. Either people them (as recommended here) oregon gully a azygous slash crossed the rounded part.

They are overmuch easier to peel erstwhile inactive a spot warm, truthful commencement erstwhile they are conscionable chill capable to handle. The skins tin sometimes cling stubbornly to the nut; person patience. It mightiness assistance to person a rootlike handbasket oregon chestnut roaster.

The chestnuts are champion roasted conscionable earlier they are served.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

• Calories

  80

• Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  17 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Jeff Donald.