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Chestnut soup

Name: Chestnut soup
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 persons
Ingredients: chestnuts, dried or roasted; root vegetables: onion, celery, carrot; oil; water; sugar; salt; cinnamon

Chestnuts or “Keschtn” as South Tyroleans call them have always been an integral part of rural fare.

Franz Schwarz

Farmer from Buschenschank Oberlegar

Oberlegar, Terlan ©

Ingredients

4 persons

60 MIN.

300 g

chestnuts, dried or roasted
1 Handful

root vegetables: onion, celery, carrot
1 dspn

oil
1 l

water
sugar
salt
cinnamon

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Instructions - Chestnut soup

1.

Step

Soak the chestnuts in water overnight, then drain.
2.

Step

Remove the fine skin where necessary.
3.

Step

Boil the chestnuts and vegetables together in a litre of water for an hour and a half.
4.

Step

Towards the end of that time season with salt, sugar and cinnamon.
5.

Step

Puree the soup and season again if necessary.
Happy cooking