The marron glacé are glazed chestnuts of the finest quality. A traditional sweet from European gastronomy, it is an exclusive dessert that until recently was only within reach of a privileged few.
Glacé (meaning glazed / candied) is the technique used to make this marron glacé you can buy, in addition to marron glacé we also have candied and glazed fruit and marron glacé turrón.
How is Marron Glacé made?
If you’re wondering how Marron Glacé is made we’ll tell you it’s not simple. To make this recipe for glazed chestnuts they must go through several processes.
First, the chestnuts are harvested and selected one by one by size. Did you know that there are, out of 143 varieties, only 5 chestnut varieties suitable for being marron glacé?
Once selected, the shell is removed and they are thoroughly cleaned with cold water. They must be peeled very carefully to avoid breaking them.
Once peeled, they are cooked at a controlled temperature to soften them and achieve the perfect texture and consistency to absorb the syrup (water with sugar) in just the right measure and become candied glacé chestnuts.
Some people add lemon peel the next day at this step. These do not.
Once cooked, they are immersed in syrup for several weeks and once candied they are glazed one by one by dipping them in a lighter syrup and subjecting them to a drying process. They then become the prized marron glacé you can buy.
Ingredients of our marron glacé: Chestnut (Castanea sativa) 61%, sugar, glucose syrup, salt and vanilla flavouring. (Does not contain allergenic ingredients based on Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 nor any ingredient or additive likely to be obtained from genetically modified organisms Regulation (EC) 1830/2003.)
