✨Marrons glacés /Candied chestnuts ✨
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To make delicious marrons glacés you have to find great quality chestnuts first.
You can either use fresh chestnuts and peel and cook them, or use while cooked chestnuts.
Ingredients:
240g chestnuts (I used our whole organic cooked ones from Ardèche).
1 cup of sugar (I actually recommend trying with a bit more like 150g if you want very gourmet candied chestnuts).
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (I used some from LittlePod)
In a pan heat your water, sugar and vanilla extract. Bring to boiling while stirring. Keep heating for a 5 more minutes after that.
Add your chestnuts and stir until it returns to a boil. Keep heating for 10mn or more.
After that, verse everything into a container and cover it. Leave like this for at least 12hours. (You can make it in the fridge).
Do that 2 or 3 times more (I did it 3 times in total but would recommend to do it 4 times).
By the end your sugar should be entirely absorbed in your pan.
Set up a baking sheet and verse your chestnuts (I put all of them but you can select only the big beautiful ones if needed) and put in the oven for 1 hour at 100C (if you do have time your can even do 2 or 3 hours at 50C). Keep a close eye on your chestnuts as it really depends on your oven.
The final optional touch is to serve them in individual pieces of your baking sheet, and in a nice present box if you want to offer them 🎁 . To be eaten within 3 days.
Almost Christmas!! 🎅
👉 This recipe is for quite light candied chestnuts (meaning that there were not too sugary and you can really taste the chestnut). If you are looking for a more traditional sugary candied chestnuts recipe I would recommend at least twice the amount of sugar.
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