Finely ground pistachios 200 g

Finely ground pistachios

How to use the ground pistachios

The product is immediately ready for use and harmonizes with various foods. The easiest way to use the pistachio is in baking. Use the ground pistachios in your cupcake, muffin, cake or sponge dough. Just as easily, you can add the ground stone fruit to snow confections, japonais, buttercreams and merengues.
Do you already know our Travel Cake? Here we show you how you can optimally integrate ground almonds into a cake batter and perfectly set the stage for the ground pistachio from Italy.

On the one hand, the pistachio is also very decorative. For example, you can sprinkle your cake and patisserie spread with buttercream or the hood of your cupcake with it. On the other hand, you can use the pistachio to coat delicious truffles or decorate your still liquid chocolate bars with the green, ground pistachios.
On the other hand, you can roast the pistachios briefly and mix them into your tempered chocolate to give your chocolate a delicious nutty flavor. However, it is important to add the pistachio after tempering. You can learn how to properly temper couverture here, in our blog post. We recommend you to use white couverture, because the chocolate not only gets an extraordinary taste, but also a unique color. If you do not want to add the pistachio to the chocolate

The product is also fantastic for macaron making. For example, you can replace the pistachios with the classic almond flour, but we recommend a mixture of almond flour and ground pistachios. If you want to make pure pistachio macarons, you can also add pistachios to the macaron filling. However, to enhance the flavor, you should add the pistachio paste. The macaron filling can be either a ganache or a buttercream. Both masses accept the pistachio very well.

Pistachios: the nut with versatile pleasure

The pistachio is often used as a whole nut to decorate chocolates, as brittle or even ground, it is often used in creams, fillings or as a decoration. But the pistachio can also convince savory, for example as pistachio pesto.
For this you need:
75 g ground pistachios2
cloves of garlic chopped or pressed2
hands full of basil chopped200
ml olive oil cold pressed50
g ParmesanIna





few steps to the pistachio pesto:
First, the ground pistachios are briefly toasted in a pan.






Now reduce the heat and add the garlic. Add the basil to the pan as well and mix well. Now add the olive oil. Now put the mixture from the pan and the parmesan in a blender and blend to a paste. Finally, season with salt, pepper and spices of your choice and the delicious pistachio pesto is ready.
Fun Facts:
The pistachio is a very popular delicacy in the Middle East and is also considered a remedy there.
The oldest discovery in Turkey shows that the pistachio was eaten with pleasure more than 7000 years ago.
The pistachio on its way to EuropeBetween
334 and 323 BC, the pistachio reached Greece, which then spread to Italy and Spain under the Roman Emperor Tiberius 1 century AD.
The pistachio likes it best dry and warm, which is why, with the spread of Islam and the expansion of the Arabs during the Crusades, the cultivation of the pistachio moved further and further towards Italy. In particular, the Republic of Venice maintained a good trade relationship with Syria, where one of the main cultivation areas of the pistachio was. The stone fruit reached northern and central Italy via maritime trade routes. While pistachios had long been integrated into various meals in Greece, Italy and Spain, north of the Alps they were considered a rare and expensive baking ingredient. After World War II, the pistachio became popular in many ways in Western Europe as well, with the stone fruit still considered a sign of prosperity.

Emeralds from Sicily: Why the pistachio is so highly prized

The pistachio tree is very hardy if it is in a suitable place. It is considered the grandfather of trees, as it can live 300 years. In Iran, there is still a pistachio tree that is over 1000 years old. However, the fruit of the tree is edible only from the 6th year of the tree's life. The harvest, which takes place between August and September, is also celebrated in Italy almost as a cultural heritage. Since the pistachio tree is mostly found on uneven lava soils, no machines can be used for harvesting, which is why it must be harvested by hand. The pistachios are then selected, dried and shelled. Until the pistachio arrives at the retail store, it goes through many steps that must be done by hand.

Macaron courses at miniSchoggi

Small, but ohoo! No pastry is as popular as the macarons. What looks so supposedly simple, can be quite tricky. Our course instructors will guide you for 4 hours in the Macaron course and show you how to avoid mistakes and mishaps when making macarons.