| True, pistachios are fatty, but most of the fat is of the desirable unsaturated kind. |
| I also added some dried cranberries to give a bit of Christmas touch to the cookies with their color combined with green from pistachios. |
| If you want your paste to not be green, soak the pistachios overnight, and then remove the skins with a tea towel. |
| But plain baked pistachios are great on their own as a snack food which doubles up as the ultimate luxury addition to crunchy granola or muesli. |
| Alternatives are almonds, pistachios, sesame seeds, peanuts, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, macadamia nuts, pecans, hazelnuts and cashews. |
| There's also a crunchy peanut-butter tart, topped with an iridescent scoop of celery sorbet and speckled with crushed pistachios. |
