My mom knew I was sad about not having chestnuts on Christmas Day so she brought me a huge bag of chestnuts last night. I cringed. I’m supposed to be on a diet now that the holidays are over and I have less than five months to my wedding. Plus, Lon doesn’t eat chestnuts.
Of course, I started eating some chestnuts last night after my family left. I tried the microwave method and did not like it. So last night I soaked some over night and now I’m boiling a batch (about 50 minutes depending on size). This is my favorite method because if you soak them, you don’t have to cut a slit open, which keeps flavor locked in. If you don’t have that much time, here are some other cooking methods.
I decided to look up the chestnut nutrition facts to see how much damage I was doing. I always thought chestnuts were super high in fat but I just looked it up and they’re actually pretty low in fat (1.6 grams in 4 ounces of cooked chestnut) compared to other nuts. Yay! They are still high in carbohydrates so I can’t have an all out chestnut fest but you should probably think of them as being more like eating sweet potatoes than walnuts.
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