Roasted Chestnuts from France - 14.8 oz. - 2 jars

by Minerva

Product Features

• Roasted Chestnuts from France
• Peeled and roasted.
• 2 jars/Net Weight: 14.8 oz. each

Product Description

Minerva Roasted Chestnuts are imported from France. Use these peeled and roasted chestnuts to prepare one of the regional dishes based on chestnuts: Ardeches salad, Corsican brilloli (chestnut polenta), or brisolee, a dish from Valais consisting of chestnuts roasted with cheese. They will also make a tasty addition to your Thanksgiving turkey stuffing. But be sure to buy enough: these chestnuts are so tasty that you will be tempted to eat them straight from the jar! 2 jars/Net Weight: 14.8 oz. each

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0008JEYUA
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,095 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If They're Your Only Choice..., July 25, 2009

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... jarred and vacuum-packed chestnuts may be close enough to the real thing to deceive your palate. The real thing is increasingly problematical in the USA, available only part of the year at best, often of poor quality, sometimes of such terrible quality that you'll give up on chestnuts forever. And of course, even if you can get good chestnuts, they are hard work to prepare in sufficient quantity for many recipes. This offering, by the way, is shockingly expensive; the same or similar imported jarred chestnuts are sold in my local markets in SF for half this price or less.

One of my cage-mates in the amazoo requested this recipe:
Equal quantities of roasted chestnuts and fresh Brussels sprouts.
Roast and peel the chestnuts (or use these pale substitutes from the jar).
Steam the sprouts, but somewhat less than completely.
Braise the chestnuts and sprouts together in an ample amount of unsalted butter, with just a hint of garlic (not powder of course!), until the sprouts take a bit of brown color.
Serve hot.
Very well matched with a puree of potatoes and celery root, and roasted duck.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best jarred chestnuts I've tried, December 28, 2007

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T. Bergen "tbergen" (Sussex, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roasted Chestnuts from France - 14.8 oz. - 2 jars

I used chestnuts from a jar or can for the Thanksgiving stuffing every year because I don't have the time to roast and peel. Other brands leave a lot of the hard black membranes on the nuts, so I still had to pick through them. Not this brand...they were very clean, fresh and made preparation that much easier.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For those who like chestnuts, January 16, 2007

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D. G. Schmidt (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roasted Chestnuts from France - 14.8 oz. - 2 jars

I, myself, think chestnuts taste like dust and am not sure just what the allure is. I ordered these for my mom, who has been a chestnut lover for a good portion of her 84 years on this planet, and she liked them very much, so I guess they must be okay. Last year I purchased a different brand and these measured up. So for you chestnut afficionados, it's a thumbs up.