Homemade Pistachio Cream

Servings:

This homemade pistachio cream is so incredible, you'll be tempted to put is on everything! Removing the skins from the pistachios is a tedious and time-consuming task, I won't lie—but it is totally necessary to achieve the best flavored, and smoothest-textured, pistachio cream. So give yourself plenty of time, have patience, and you'll be rewarded with the most delicious outcome.

Prep
26 min
Cook
65 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Bring a pot of water to a boil over medium heat. Add pistachios and boil for just 2 minutes. Drain pistachios, rinse thoroughly with cold water, then drain again.
  2. 2 Pour pistachios onto a clean kitchen towel. Fold towel in half over pistachios and rub vigorously to remove skins. You may want to repeat this rubbing process with another clean towel; this will help dry pistachios a little more, and make them slightly less slippery to hold onto.
  3. 3 Carefully pick through pistachios and separate them from their skins; peel off any skins still stuck to pistachio meats. Discard skins, and place peeled pistachio meats into the cup of a high-powered blender.
  4. 4 In a small microwave-safe bowl, combine 1/4 cup milk, white chocolate chips, and butter. Microwave in 30 second intervals at 50% power (stirring after each 30 second interval), until butter and white chocolate chips are melted and mixture becomes smooth and combined.
  5. 5 Add remaining 1/2 cup milk, powdered sugar, salt, almond extract, and vanilla to the blender cup. Pour in white chocolate mixture.
  6. 6 Starting on low speed and gradually increasing to high, blend pistachio mixture until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes, stopping often to scrape down the sides of the blender jar. If mixture is too thick, add milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached. Pause blending if mixture is becoming hot; heat may cause it to separate.
  7. 7 Pour pistachio cream into a glass jar or container, and allow to cool slightly. Pistachio cream is ready to use immediately, or cover and refrigerate. It will keep for 1 to 2 weeks.

Nutrition per serving

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