Although it represents for us a delight borrowed from the Sicilian tradition, land ancient origins of pistachio lead us to distant Persia. The cultivation of this long-lived plant (the life cycle can last even 300 years) has spread over time also in Italy, reaching qualitative peaks in the areas of Bronte and Andrano, on the slopes of Etna, although the world's largest producer is Iran followed by the United States and Turkey. What we usually eat of this plant is the seed that is dried, toasted and sometimes salted, ready to be consumed as a snack or included in delicious recipes.

If you love its fragrant notes, you can't help but taste it from appetizer to dessert in recipes: mousse of pistachios and fresh strawberries, dogfish with mandarin, bread croissants with mortadella, duck citrus, scampi to the bridge with aromatic mince and lime, risotto with pistachios and clams, couscous with pistachios, chocolate and caco, bacetti, vegetable cream and fruit with taralli, scallops with fennel, robiola, pears, salad and pistachios, salad with fruit and quartirolo, pork fillet in a pistachio crust, headcheese with ham and lard, panna cotta, muffin with lemon, pistachio couscous with vegetables and chicken, noodles soup, chicken and avocado, pistachio penne and bagoss, dacquoise with white chocolate, dessert with cannellini ice cream, soft cake with pistachios and currants, soft cake of zucchini, cocoa and pistachios, salmon and cuttlefish mortadella, chicken meatballs with fried eggplant, veal beat with black currant and crescenza, Bavarian of prickly pear figs with wafers, orange endive with orange, risotto to the strawberry grape strain, Italian sword slices, gratin lobster with pistachio and lemon bread e stuffed pie with pistachio and strawberries.

Here are our recipes with pistachios