It's not autumn if you don't go to collect chestnuts at least once! To bring them to the table then there are lots of ideas, like this liqueur. Do we want to take a poetic license and call it "Castagnello"?
Autumn, the leaves fall … and even the chestnuts! Going to the woods to collect them is a way to spend an afternoon in contact with nature and to do something different and relaxing. With the loot, once at home, you can then do many recipes including that of an original liquor that we decided to call "castagnello". How you do it? We will explain it to you immediately!
It is not autumn without chestnuts
The chestnut liqueur it is the ideal way to end an autumn dinner, because it is also a digestive and then because it is not autumn if there are no chestnuts at the table, right?
Approaches Saint martin and there are even less than 100 days left for Christmas, so if you want to prepare this liqueur even to give it to friends, this is the right time to do it!
There are two recipes: a more delicious and creamy one and a lighter one.
We offer both of them, but we can already imagine which one will be chosen.
The tasty recipe of liqueur with chestnuts
Ingredients
700 g of chestnuts
400 g of sugar
1 l of alcohol
500 ml of water
Method
Boil the chestnuts until they become soft, then let them cool and peel them well.
Dip them in alcohol and let them macerate tightly for about 20 days.
After this time, prepare a syrup by dissolving the sugar in boiling water.
Let it cool and then add it to the alcohol, after having filtered it.
Chestnuts can be reduced to a puree of the whole or just a part.
Add them to the liqueur to make it very creamy.
How to boil chestnuts
Classic (and light) chestnut liqueur
To keep the liqueur transparent and amber in color, do not add the blended chestnuts.
Instead, filter the alcohol very well with a thinly woven gauze and then add the syrup.
Chestnuts can be used to prepare a dessert such as a Montebianco, in a slightly alcoholic version, or to garnish a cream or ice cream.
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