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== Hot sand frying ==
[[File:Roastedchestnut.jpg|thumb|right|Chestnuts in hot black sand, prepared by a [[Hawker (trade)|street-side hawker]].]]
Hot sand frying is a common cooking technique for street-side food vendors in China and India to cook [[chestnut]]s and peanuts. A large wok is filled with sand, which turns black from accumulating carbonized particles from the food items being fried, and heated to high temperature. Nuts are buried in the hot sand and occasionally turned with a spatula, then the sand and nuts are separated through a wire-mesh screen. Hot sand frying is also used in many villages throughout Asia. A common cooking technique in villages is to wrap fish or other meat in a banana leaf, tie it off, and then place the banana leaf in the heated sand one side at a time.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}}