Traditional Galician chestnut soup recipe

Ingredients to make Galician traditional chestnut soup:

• 1 glass of olive oil
• 1 ½ kilo of chestnuts
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar
• 1 piece of bacon or pig’s ear
• Salt
• 2 onions
• 1 clove garlic

How to make Galician traditional chestnut soup:

1. Peel the chestnuts and boil them in plenty of salted water for a few minutes. Drain and peel.
2. Then they are cut in half to put them in another clean water with salt, a whole onion and a clove of garlic.
3. Add the piece of bacon or the pig’s ear.
4. Leave everything for an hour and a half until the chestnuts are cooked, at which point you fry the chopped onion and oil with a little vinegar, which is added to the broth