Roasted Salted Pistachios In Shell (Peste)

These are whole pistachios roasted and salted in the shell, the classic snacking nut: shells split open along the seam, kernels a bright green and purple inside, salt on the outside of the shell so you taste it before you reach the nut. The flavour is toasty and savoury, much like a salted roasted peanut but sweeter, greener and richer.

The shell is the whole point of this listing. It protects the kernel, it slows you down, and it turns the nut into a shared, sit around the table snack rather than a baking ingredient. Buy this one for snacking and hosting. If you need pistachios for cooking, our shelled kernel listings save you the shelling, and the slivered pistachios are cut and ready to garnish.

How to use them

Put them out whole with tea, on a mezze table, or in a bowl at a gathering alongside dried fruit and other nuts. Shelled by hand, they go into noql, into snack mixes, and scattered over rice or salad. They are also good crushed over roasted vegetables or set out on a cheese board. Technique tip: keep one empty half shell and use it as a lever on any nut that has not split open, which works far better than fingernails.

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Also known as

Salted pistachios, roasted pistachio nuts, pista salted, in shell pistachios, whole pistachios, peste, pista, pistaches salées, pistachos salados