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Chestnut Recipes: 10+ ideas to cook chestnuts around holidays

Chestnuts are a typical fall ingredient with an earthy yet sweet-nutty flavor. Perfect for sweet or savory recipes, cook them in different ways, especially around holidays.

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Chestnuts are a typical fall ingredient you can't do without. Mainly cultivated in Asia, Europe, and North Africa, they are very popular around Europe. They are rustic, earthy yet slightly sweet-nutty in flavor. Some variety of chestnuts can be eaten raw, but cooking them bring out its rich and intense flavor, especially when oven-roasted or boiled.

Super versatile nuts, you can use chestnuts in both sweet and savory recipes, from snacks, main dishes, spreads to desserts. However, this autumn ingredient is often associated to holiday recipes too, so don't be surprised if Thanksgiving and Christmas menus might include nutty-tasting dishes. Some examples? Make chestnuts the stars of stuffings, roasts, vegetarian pastas, soups, risottos and mouth-watering desserts.

Moreover, if you have an abundance of these earthy nuts, remember to store them properly. Ready to find out how to cook them through our tasty 10+ chestnut recipes to make this fall?

1. Oven-Roasted Chestnuts: the classic Christmas recipe you’ll love
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Sweet, nutty and soft, oven-roasted chestnuts are an Italian snack you can enjoy during Christmas. Make sure to make an X-shaped or a line cut on the shell to prevent them from exploding during baking.
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2. Boiled Chestnuts: the simple recipe to make in fall
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Because of their availability from October to December, boiled chestnuts are the ultimate fall snack food. So, if you’re looking for something tasty to serve this fall season, then look no further than these boiled chestnuts.
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3. Chestnut Purée: the fast, easy recipe for a festive nutty spread
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Chestnut purée is a sweet, nutty spread very popular in Europe, especially Italy. Perfect for Christmas, you can use it for both sweet and savory dishes.
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4. Marron Glacé: the incredibly delicious recipe for candied chestnuts
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Marron glacé are candied chestnuts that are sweet and nutty, perfect for the holidays. The chestnuts are cooked and soaked in syrup several times to infuse them with an incredible flavor.
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5. Chestnut Salad: the super quick, easy recipe made of chestnuts
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This chestnut salad is a quick, easy recipe perfect to serve in fall. It's made of bitter endive, boiled sweet chestnuts, savory feta, and crunchy nuts and croutons.
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6. Chestnut Strudel: the recipe for a greedy dessert
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The chestnut strudel is a greedy dessert, the fall variant of the classic apple strudel. In this version, a fragrant shortcrust pastry shell is filled with chestnuts, almond flakes, rum and cocoa, for an intense and very aromatic final result.
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7. Chestnuts In Syrup: the flavorful recipe to enjoy chestnuts all the year long
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Chestnuts cooked in syrup are a great recipe to enjoy any time. Perfect for savory or sweet dishes, chestnuts have a mild flavor, and become buttery and sweet once cooked.
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8. Soft Castagnaccio Cake: the traditional recipe of Italian cuisine
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Castagnaccio cake is a traditional recipe of Italian cuisine and it is a soft dessert prepared with chestnut flour and pine nuts, raisins, walnuts and rosemary, widespread in Tuscany, Piedmont, Liguria and Puglia.
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9. Rumaki
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The Rumaki is a nutritionally rich starter or appetizer, made with marinated chicken livers and water chestnuts, which are wrapped in bacon, and are served on a toothpick.
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10. Drunken Chestnuts: the effortless recipe to enjoy sweet chestnuts
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Drunken chestnuts are an easy recipe to make with only 2 ingredients. Just pour some wine over the chestnuts to make them sweet, slightly boozy and with a soft texture.
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11. Apple Crumble Cake with Chestnuts Flour: the recipe for a soft and irresistible dessert
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The cake with chestnut flour and apples is the reinterpretation of the great classic of home pastry, one of those desserts that smells of home and family. Soft, fragrant and with a delicate flavor, the cake with chestnut flour and apples is perfect for breakfast dipped in a cup of cappuccino, as an afternoon snack with a good tea.
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