Recipe: Pistachio Pasta

Delicious pistachio pasta enhanced with speck and crunchy pistachios.

Info:

• Difficulty: Easy
• Quantity: 1 person (and then multiply as needed)

Ingredients:

• 100 g of short pasta
• 25 g of speck (alternatives: pancetta, prosciutto, mushrooms, shrimp, etc.)
• 70 ml of heavy cream (OPTIONAL *)
• 70 g of pistachio pesto (find it here)
• Pistachio flour / chopped pistachios / whole pistachios to taste (find them here)

* OPTIONAL: you can also proceed without cream, simply using a little pasta cooking water to toss the pasta and the pesto together

Preparation:

• Start cooking the pasta in a pot;
  
  
• Preparing the sauce:
  1. If the pistachio pesto has a layer of oil on the surface, you can remove this excess oil, as it is not needed to add flavor to our savory cream
     
     
  2. Cut the speck into strips and sauté in a pan with a drizzle of oil
     
     
  3. When slightly golden, add the cream * and the pistachio pesto to the pan, then mix over low heat!
     * you can also omit it and use only pasta cooking water
     
     
  4. Season with salt and/or pepper to taste (it depends a lot on the pesto you use)
     
     

• In a pan, toss the pasta with the sauce, adding a little pasta cooking water if necessary.
  
  
• Garnish with pistachio flour, chopped pistachios, and whole pistachios. All to taste.