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

You can find basic recipes for cooking chestnuts here.

You can buy organic fresh chestnuts here.

• Ballotte — Tuscan Chestnut-Fennel Stew

• Kuri Gohan — Japanese Chestnut Rice

• Galbi Jjim — Korean Chestnut + Beef Short Rib Stew

• Red Cooked Chicken with Chestnuts

• Chestnut Burger

• Chestnut Hummus

• Chestnut Pudding

• Gluten Free Chestnut Beer

• Chestnut Cheesecake

• Chestnut Cream

• Chestnut Soup

• Squash Risotto with Chestnut Chili Oil

Chestnut Flour

You can buy chestnut flour here.

• Three-Tree Biscuits

• Chestnut Flour Farinata

• Chestnut Apple Quickbread

• Chestnut Banana Bread

• Chestnut Tagliatelle

• Chestnut Flour Ravioli

• 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-Flour Banana Bread

Chestnut Cookbooks

• The Chestnut Cook Book: Recipes, Folklore and Practical Information — by Annie Bhagwandin

• Easy Chestnut Cookbook

• The Chestnut Cookbook — by Ian Wallace