Chestnuts - your recipe ideas please (no stuffing )

[fullmoonfiend]

I love these just boiled then roasted in the oven. But I'm sure there must be more interesting things to do with them. (Not interested in stuffing as I'm the only one who likes stuffing)

So bring your soups, nut roasts et al please !

nigella's chestnut cheesecake is lovely... erm and chestnut and bacon soup. Want either of these ?

gosh yes - they both sound rather nice

here's an americanised version - uses chestnut puree www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/236621

Can type out anglicised original if you'd wish (can't remember what you use instead of graham crakers - digestives prob but can look that up).

Will look up soup recipe too.

Hugh Curly-Wurly's Chestnut and Chocolate Truffle Cake is gorgeous.

Oooh, chestnuts en croute!

I don't think I made this from a recipe, just made it up. For a dinner for a vegan friend.

Puff pastry (the ready made stuff - and it's veggie, if that is an issue),
Red wine sauce (made with softened onions, herbs, fresh parsley, thickened a little with cornflour)
Big dark field mushrooms
Chestnuts

Line baking tin or ovenproof dish with a layer of pastry
Put in chestnuts and mushrooms
Pour on some sauce
Put pastry top on in lattice design
Cook as directed on pastry packet until it all looks hot and cooked
Serve with more red wine sauce (maybe a bit more diluted) fresh parsley nice greens or salad.

What's that fabulous desert with layers of meringue and chestnut pureee and cream? (but can you make chestnut puree from chestnuts yourself or does it only come in tins?)
I wnoder if it was a proper recipe - I'll look
I love chestnuts!

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Blu - wasn't that nigella too ?

My mum makes them into a lovely puree and has it mixed with plain youghurt for breakfast, it is delicious. Haven't got a recipe though .

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/chestnut-soup-with-bacon-and-thyme-croutons,883,RC.html

i make achestnut and mushroom gravy for a roast
make gravy as usual and add the vacuum packed chestnuts and a splash of port
it is really nice

Wheelybug - possible. I haven't got any Nigella books and i don't think she'd do anything as crass as the cornflour, would she? if there is a Nigella recipe i'd like to see it as it is bound to be fab and superior.
I think mine was based on something we saw in a rather grim vegan book.

I'm sure I remember Nigella doing something similar last year. I don't actually have her books either but will try and find it on t'internet.

Yes it was called a Mont Blanc. Have found a reference to it but not recipe so far....

Ta Da www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/quicklyscaledmontbla_84688.shtml

Oh thank you SO much for this thread, I have a giant bucket full of chestnuts needing to be cooked!

I have several recipes for a Mont Blanc, here's one here

Merchant Gourmet's website has recipes for chestnuts eg Chestnut Chocolate Meringue

FMF - if I am going to roast them on an open fire (ooh, I feel a song coming on), should I boil them first then? DH is keen to fire up the firepit tomorrow (boys )

ok chestnut types

what's the difference between conkers and chestnuts that you can roast then?

eh? eh?

chestnuts have a point at the top of the nut whereas conkers don't

Twig...I THINK conkers are poisonous.

And the cases are more prickly, less spiky.

You are so urban.

sigh.

chestnuts are flat on one side, not spherical. And more matt, not shiny.

Conkers are semi-poisonous.

I am a city girl and don't like mud on my potatoes either

I'm a city girl too (but know how to google) - I remember my mu laughing at me when I told her the potatoes in my organic box had mud on them

conkers

chestnuts

oh yes, that's a bleedin' obvious difference that is

Note the point on the top of the chestnuts.