What to cook with pistachios

62 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use pistachios. 8 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Indian, Middle Eastern and Lebanese recipes.

recipes use it: 62
are built around it: 8
median total time: 1 hr
ready in 30 minutes or less: 11

Recipes built around pistachios

With pistachios, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with pistachios

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with pistachios, out of 62 recipes.

Rose water23% of recipes
Cardamom40% of recipes
Almonds27% of recipes
Orange blossom water18% of recipes
Ghee26% of recipes
Saffron21% of recipes
Milk35% of recipes
Powdered sugar19% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 25 recipes that give an amount, the median is ½ cup. Half of them fall between ¼ to ⅔ cup.

Where pistachios shows up

Cuisines

Indian19
Middle Eastern9
Lebanese7
Turkish7

Courses

Dessert55
Drink3

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.