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Pistachios Recipes

9 recipes with pistachios for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

9 recipes

Cannoli with ricotta, sugar and chocolate — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Cannoli

Cannoli are Sicilian pastries: crisp tubes of fried dough filled with sweet ricotta cream, chocolate and orange zest. The dough is rolled thin, wrapped around metal tubes and fried until blistered, and the cream goes in just before serving. Start the day before: the ricotta drains overnight, and the dough rests for an hour. Makes 16–18 cannoli, about three per serving.

90 min710 kcal6 serves

Dubai Chocolate Tiramisu with mascarpone, pistachio and chocolate — UAE recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Dubai Chocolate Tiramisu

Classic tiramisu layered with toasted kataifi pastry mixed through pistachio cream and a chocolate ganache on top instead of cocoa. The kataifi adds a crunch that stays for a few hours before softening into the cream. Based on the Dubai chocolate bar that went viral in 2024.

40 min520 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Pistachio Tiramisu with mascarpone, pistachio and cream — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Sweet Dishes

Pistachio Tiramisu

Classic tiramisu where pistachio cream is folded into the mascarpone filling, and the espresso is replaced with a sweetened condensed milk and pistachio mixture. No cocoa on top — crushed pistachios instead. Pale green, nutty, and easier to make than it looks.

35 min490 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

No-Bake Pistachio Cheesecake Cups with cream cheese, pistachio cream and biscuits — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Sweet Dishes

No-Bake Pistachio Cheesecake Cups

No-bake pistachio cheesecake cups are individual cheesecakes with a crushed biscuit base, a filling of cream cheese, whipped cream and sweet pistachio cream, and crushed pistachios on top. Nothing is baked and there is no water bath: the filling sets in the fridge in about 3 hours. The pistachio cream is a sweet spread, which is why the cups taste like a pistachio dessert rather than a nut butter.

25 min640 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Kataifi Pistachio Parfaits with kataifi, pistachio cream and mascarpone — UAE recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Kataifi Pistachio Parfaits

Individual dessert glasses layered with whipped mascarpone cream, toasted kataifi mixed with pistachio cream, and a drizzle of chocolate ganache. The Dubai chocolate bar flavors in a glass, assembled to order so the kataifi stays crunchy. No baking.

30 min450 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Pistachio Cream Tart with flour, butter and pistachio cream — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Sweet Dishes

Pistachio Cream Tart

A buttery shortcrust pastry case filled with pistachio pastry cream and topped with whipped cream, crushed pistachios and a drizzle of pistachio cream. The pastry cream is the main event — dense, sweet and deeply nutty. Bake the shell ahead, fill when cool.

55 min460 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Spring Pea and Feta Couscous Salad with pearl couscous, peas and feta — Mediterranean recipe

🌊MediterraneanAdvanced

Salads

Spring Pea and Feta Couscous Salad

A bright, no-fuss salad that works as a side for grilled lamb or chicken, or holds its own as a light lunch. Pearl couscous — the round, pasta-like kind, not the fine-grain North African variety — gets toasted before cooking, which gives it a nutty depth that plain couscous lacks. Pickled shallots cut through the richness of the feta and keep the salad from tasting flat. Fresh mint is non-negotiable here: it's the ingredient that ties everything together and makes this taste like spring rather than just a bowl of starchy things.

25 min390 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Whipped Feta with Hot Honey and Pistachio with feta cheese, Greek yogurt and honey — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceMedium

Sauces and Dips

Whipped Feta with Hot Honey and Pistachio

Whipped feta with hot honey and pistachio is a creamy salty-sweet mezze dip — block feta blended with Greek yogurt, lemon zest, and olive oil into a fluffy spread, then drizzled with chili-infused honey and topped with toasted pistachios. The contrast is the whole point: salty brined sheep's milk cheese against sweet floral honey with a slow chili burn, and crunchy pistachio against the silky base. It takes about 15 minutes of hands-on work in a food processor (plus 15 minutes for the honey to infuse and 30 minutes for the cheese to come to room temperature) and serves six on a mezze board with warm pita, crackers, or sliced pear. The hot honey is easy to make at home if you cannot find it in shops.

15 min230 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Knafeh with Pistachios and Orange Blossom with kataifi, akkawi cheese and pistachios — Lebanon recipe

🇱🇧LebanonAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Knafeh with Pistachios and Orange Blossom

Knafeh is the great sweet of the Levant: a layer of mild, stretchy cheese buried between two layers of buttered kataifi pastry, baked until the shredded strands turn deep gold, then drenched in cold orange blossom syrup the moment it leaves the oven. Salty and sweet, crisp and molten at once, it's eaten warm while the cheese still pulls, scattered with green pistachios. In Lebanon it's as much a breakfast, tucked into sesame bread, as a dessert.

90 min610 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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chocolate mascarpone pistachio cream ricotta cream cheese heavy cream peas shallots fresh mint lemon feta cheese Greek yogurt