Pistachio Biscotti - Recipe

Mmmm… biscotti.

A few months ago, I posted this recipe for almond biscotti and this one for chocolate biscotti.

While I was on that biscotti kick, stumbled across this one for one made with pistachios.

Mmm… pistachios.

I knew I had to attempt this one at some point so I printed it out and added it to my pile of recipes to try.

Did you know that eating one to two handful of pistachios daily help lower your LDL (bad cholesterol)? Uh-huh.. it was proved by Penn State researchers, read about it here.

I have had *cough* two pieces today and it is so good.

Pistachio Biscotti – Recipe

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 ½ tsp baking powder

¼ tsp salt

3 large eggs

1 cup sugar

¼ cup butter (you can use margarine but butter is better), melted

¼ cup vegetable oil

1 tsp. vanilla extract

½ tsp almond extract

½ tsp grated lemon, rind *

1 cup pistachios, chopped

1. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Position rack in center of the oven.
3. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
4. Whisk eggs, sugar, butter, oil vanilla and almond extracts and lemon peel in a large bowl.
5. Gradually stir in dry ingredients until smooth.
6. Stir in nuts.
7. Form dough into a 15 x 4 – ½ inch log prepared sheet.
8. Bake 30 minutes until edges are lightly browned and toothpick inserted comes out clean.
9. Cool for 15 minutes.
10. Keep oven on.
11. With serrated knife, cut log on angle into 18 ½” thick slices
12. Lay slices flat on cookies sheet and bake until bottom of cookies turn golden about 10-12 minutes.
13. Turn biscotti over and bake 10-12 minutes more.
14. Cool biscotti on wire racks.
15. Note: If you can’t find pistachio, you can substitute almonds.

* I did not add the lemon rind and they still taste wonderful.