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.
Breadtree & Friends Originals
Recipes developed by Breadtree’s team, friends, and family. Everything here is good, and everything here is in some ways a work in progress, so use your judgment and if you come up with ways to improve a recipe, please let us know. All recipes made with 100% chestnut flour (or a mix of chestnut & acorn flour) are gluten free!
Three-Tree Biscuits
These chestnut biscuits are one of our favorites — think corn muffins that grow here.
By Jesse Marksohn & Noah Simon
Chestnut Farinata
A savory Mediterranean pancake traditionally made with chickpea flour. Savory and deeply satisfying.
By Noah Simon
Necci
Necci (pronounced “neh-chee”) are an ancient Italian “wrap” — imagine the sweet, nutty lovechild of taco shells and burrito wraps. Generally we find anything you would want on a taco is great in some necci.
By Noah Simon, Nathaniel Young, and Riley Crognale
2/3 Chestnut Flour Pancakes
By Russell Wallack
Chestnut Polenta / Grits
Delicious, satisfying base for anything you can imagine.
By Russell Wallack
Three-Tree Skillet Cake
Acorn-hickory-chestnut skillet cake sweetened with honey.
By Dana Maple Feeney
Chestnut Banana Bread
Moist, light banana bread with a beautiful crumb!
By Russell Wallack
Chestnut Apple Quickbread
A simple, delicious quickbread that you can make with New England autumn staples.
By Dana Maple Feeney
Nutty Brownies
“I’m sure I should be writing to you about spring chicken and the like. But it’s been brownies for me lately. Specifically, brownies made with chestnut flour…”
by Clare de Boer
Recipes From Around The World
Chestnut Flour Tagliatelle
Traditional pasta preparation from Emilia-Romagna, by “Pasta Grannies"
By Giovanna Bellia La Marca
Chestnut Flour Ravioli
By Sarah Menanix
Castagnaccio
Traditional flatbread from mountain regions of Tuscany.
By Emiko Davies
Necci
Crepe / wraps traditional to rural Tuscany. With our flour, we’d recommend adding an egg to this recipe.
By Giulia Scarpaleggia
Chestnut Pasta with Walnut Sauce
The “Bastard Lasagna” is a traditional Tuscan pasta dish combining wheat flour with chestnut flour.
By Giulia Scarpaleggia
Chestnut Banana Bread
by Nirvana Cakery
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