What to do with chestnut flour

April 26, 2020 11:26 AM

I bought some chestnut flour for a cake. Now I have a lot of extra chestnut flour. I do not like dried fruit and I do not want to make pasta. I have most regular baking ingredients but no other non-wheat flours, though I'm not unwilling to get those (if available) for the right recipe. Sweet or savoury is fine.
posted by jeather to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

Pancakes.
posted by Leon at 12:12 PM on April 26, 2020

In general, chestnut flour can be used in place of almond flour, 1:1 ratio, in pretty much any baked good, it'll just change your flavor profile to be a bit more, well, chestnuty. I can't think of many flavor combinations that would work well with almond but then taste bad with chestnut, so I think you can just sub chestnut flour to your heart's content!
posted by JuliaIglesias at 1:06 PM on April 26, 2020

What about financiers? I bet they're be good with chestnut flour. I generally have good success with this one with almond, so could be a good starting point.
posted by Carillon at 2:08 PM on April 26, 2020

Pasta! Approx 1/3 chestnut flour, 1/3 regular flour (or ideally 00 flour, but regular should work), 1/3 water. It won't really roll out like regular pasta dough (it's fairly thick) but it's soooo good. A video: pasta grannies.
(Oops, just saw you don't want to make pasta. Feel free to delete this/flag it for deletion)
posted by 2 cats in the yard at 5:41 PM on April 26, 2020

As someone else mentioned subbing chestnut flour for almond flour, let me recommend galette des rois! I've successfully made this NYT recipe which uses frozen puff pastry (you could make your own pastry if need be).
posted by serelliya at 11:56 AM on April 29, 2020