Have a go at our Sicilian pasta with pistachio sauce, one of the most divine pasta dishes that island has to offer. The ingredients are simple and it's ready in 20 minutes
Ingredients
100g pistachios, unsalted
80g ricotta
75g parmesan, grated
25g smoked speck
white part of 4 spring onions, chopped
100ml extra-virgin olive oil
for frying butter
such as penne short pasta, maccheroni or fusilli
Step by step
Parboil two thirds of the pistachios, discarding any papery skin. lightly toast and finely crush the remainder. cook the spring onions with the speck in a little butter till soft but not coloured.
Blitz the parboiled nuts with the spring onions, speck and a little of the oil in a food processor, then stir the resulting paste, crushed nuts, parmesan and remainder of the extra-virgin olive into the ricotta.
Cook the pasta and drain, leaving a little of the cooking water in the saucepan. stir in the pistachio sauce and serve with more grated parmesan.
