Chestnut 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 these nuts! 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.
For instructions on storing and cooking chestnuts, click here.
Fresh Chestnuts
Basic recipes for cooking chestnuts on their own are here.
Ballotte — Tuscan Chestnut-Fennel Stew
Kuri Gohan — Japanese Chestnut Rice
Galbi Jjim — Korean Chestnut + Beef Short Rib Stew
Chestnut Flour
Castagnaccio — Tuscan Chestnut-Flour Flatbread / Cake
Necci — Tuscan Chestnut-Flour Crepes
Chestnut Polenta @ Forager Chef
Chestnut Polenta / “Pulenda” (Corsican Polenta)
Another Corsican Polenta / “Pulenda” Recipe
Chestnut Pasta with Walnut Sauce (try foraging for native Black Walnuts!)
Chestnut Cookbooks
The Chestnut Cook Book: Recipes, Folklore and Practical Information — by Annie Bhagwandin
The Chestnut Cookbook — by Ian Wallace