Chestnut Flour Recipes


One of our goals is to help rebuild a vibrant regional food culture around perennial staple foods like chestnuts. We see you as an important partner in that effort, and we would love to hear from you about your experience working with chestnut flour! Please share feedback, recipes, the results of your experiments, what worked and didn’t work, and what you are learning about best ways to use this important climate-resilient food. If you are posting on social media about recipes or dishes, we welcome a tag @breadtreefarms. If you are looking to buy chestnut flour, click here.


Three-Tree Biscuits

These chestnut biscuits are one of our favorites — think corn muffins that grow here. A Breadtree & friends original.

By Jesse Marksohn & Noah Simon

Chestnut Farinata

A savory Mediterranean pancake traditionally made with chickpea flour. Savory and deeply satisfying.

By Noah Simon

2/3 Chestnut Flour Pancakes

By Russell Wallack

Chestnut Flour Tagliatelle

Traditional pasta preparation from Emilia-Romagna, by “Pasta Grannies"

By Giovanna Bellia La Marca

Chestnut Apple Quickbread

A simple, delicious quickbread that you can make with New England autumn staples.

By Dana Maple Feeney

Castagnaccio

Traditional flatbread from mountain regions of Tuscany.

By Emiko Davies

Chestnut Flour Ravioli

By Sarah Menanix

Necci

Crepe / wraps traditional to the peasant food traditions of rural Tuscany.

By Giulia Scarpaleggia

Chestnut Banana Bread

by Nirvana Cakery

Chestnut Pasta with Walnut Sauce

The “Bastard Lasagna” is a traditional Tuscan pasta dish combining wheat flour with chestnut flour.

By Giulia Scarpaleggia

Polenta di Castagne

Chestnuts were the original Polenta, for thousands of years before corn arrived from the New World.

By Alan Bergo

Corsican “Pulenda”

Traditional chestnut flour polenta from Corsica, one of the most ancient “Chestnut Civilizations”.

By Guillaume Bereni