The Magnificent Pistachio

I got a big jar of pistachio cream from Costco the other day. Total impulse buy, no clue what to do with it. I wonder if there’s a Dubai chocolate brownie type recipe that would use pistachio cream? Anyone have any ideas? Off to search…

Edit - this looks good…

You can shmear it on toasted bread like you would peanut butter for a decadent breakfast, or add it to pistachio ice cream — assuming from your handle that you might enjoy that kinda stuff :wink:

There are a few Dubai ‘style’ recipes here:

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Same and same. I used some in the custard part of a galatopita last weekend - turned out fine, but I’m guessing it wasn’t the highest and best use for the product. It’s pretty sweet, so I’m thinking it might be nice paired with a dark chocolate ganache in some format, maybe on a shortbread crust. Or swirled into a raspberry (or other tart fruit) blondie.

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Make pistachio ice cream.

Pistachio creams often contain oils, sugar and lecithin which makes it quite complicated to calculate the right sugar (and other ingredient) amounts for ice cream

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It makes for a splendid addition to pistachio ice cream, though. My PIC also adds toasted and raw crushed pistachios :face_savoring_food:

Good to know. I successfully made ice cream with my carefully-purchased jar of sicilian pistachio cream (very high % of pistachio, very little in the way of BS ingredients) but I recently bought the Costco version, and will report back my ice cream results.

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If it is Pisti pistachio cream that contains only 45% pistachios