Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts have the effects of nourishing the stomach, spleen, kidney, tendons. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that "Chestnut tastes sweet warm, enters the spleen, stomach kidney channels." It also points out that "Chestnut can cure kidney deficiency, waist legs weakness, promote kidney qi, thicken the intestines stomach." "Some people are cold inside, the torrent flows like a pouring, the stew of twenty thirty chestnuts will heal." Chestnut has high nutritional value, rich in starch, protein, fat, sugar, crude fiber, vitamins, Unsaturated fat acids, calcium, phosphorus, potassium other minerals, Up to 98% of nutrients can be absorbed utilized by the human body. Chestnuts are sweet fragrant, can be used for food processing cooking. Chestnuts are suitable for both raw stir fried food. In daily life, sugar fried chestnuts chestnut roasted chicken are both popular delicacies.

Key points for processing sugar coated chestnuts:

① Choose plump fresh chestnuts with a weight of more than 6 grams per fruit, remove dry sticky fruits, divide them into two grades according to their size.

② Either manually mechanically remove the shell according to the usual method, then use a small oilstone to grind off the chestnut clothes, while flushing with water. The ground millet should be immediately put into a mixed aqueous solution containing 0.2% salt 0.2% lemon, soaked for color protection.

③ There are two methods for pre cooking: one is constant temperature pre cooking, which involves boiling in hot water at 80-90 ℃ for 40-55 minutes; The second method is to pre cook the chestnuts by heating them in stages. First, boil the chestnuts in hot water at 55 ℃ for 10-15 minutes, then in hot water at 75-85 ℃ for 10-15 minutes, then in hot water at around 95 ℃ for 15-20 minutes. In actual production, one method is better, but the water should be changed once in the middle. When pre cooking, the ratio of material to liquid is 1:3 until fully cooked.

Roasted chestnuts in sugar-coated heated sand with sugar is a folk snack a traditional delicacy with a long history. Roasted chestnuts in sugar-coated heated sand are loved by many people because of their regular grains, bright color, soft waxy taste, unique fragrance rich nutrition. Even Zhang Ailing, a well-known Chinese female writer, "loves" Roasted chestnuts in sugar-coated heated sand often buys Roasted chestnuts in sugar-coated heated sand wrapped in Kraft paper. Roasted chestnuts in sugar-coated heated sand have appeared many times in her novel "Be merciful". It can be seen that Roasted chestnuts in sugar-coated heated sand with sugar have been popular for a long time.