Chestnuts in jar cooking in the microwave, here’s how to cook whole chestnuts in a jar in just a few minutes. This is the right time, and I always take the opportunity to make rum chestnuts in jar cooking. These chestnuts in jar cooking are also great for enriching chestnut and mushroom soup in jar cooking. Adding water creates the right amount of steam inside the jar and allows the cooking to continue during the resting period. This way, whenever the craving for chestnuts strikes, we can enjoy them in a few minutes without messing up anything, except a simple glass jar. I will never stop thanking my reader group, they are in constant motion, always offering many tips for new recipes and tasty ideas. Sometimes I don’t have time to conceive an idea before they’ve already come up with it. If it were up to them, I should cook jar cooking recipes from morning to night. I won’t hide it, I’m perfectly fine with that, it makes me happy, even if it keeps me awake! Shhhh, don’t tell them, let it remain a secret! And now come discover how to make microwave-cooked chestnuts in a jar!

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Difficulty: Easy
Cost: Medium
Rest time: 50 Minutes
Preparation time: 10 Minutes
Portions: 3
Cooking methods: Microwave, Jar Cooking
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: Autumn

355.25 Kcal

calories per serving

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Energy 355.25 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 76.79 (g) of which sugars 15.37 (g)
Proteins 4.60 (g)
Fat 3.19 (g) of which saturated 0.60 (g)of which unsaturated 2.36 (g)
Fibers 7.40 (g)
Sodium 392.48 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 90 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Shopping List for Cooking Chestnuts in a Jar

10 oz chestnuts (about 17 pieces)
2 pinches fine salt
100 ml water

What You Need to Cook Chestnuts in Jar Cooking in the Microwave

1 Microwave Oven
1 Jar 500 ml with thick gasket
1 Knife (small with curved blade or paring knife)
1 Bowl

How to Make Chestnuts in a Jar

Wash and score the chestnuts well. Distribute them in a bowl and cover with fresh water, letting them soak for at least 30 minutes. After the resting time, drain them and place them in the jar. Add the salt and water.
Clean the rim of the jar, close and latch. Set the microwave to your power (I use 600 watts) for 9 minutes*. Insert the jar and start cooking. At the end, let the jar rest closed for at least 20 minutes.
Now your chestnuts in jar cooking are ready to be enjoyed or used for other preparations. Alternatively, you can store them in the refrigerator for 1 week.
To open the vacuum-sealed jar with chestnuts, just unlatch, place the jar in the microwave, and start for 2 minutes with the defrost function if cold from the refrigerator, then about 3 minutes at the same power you used to cook the chestnuts in jar cooking.