Pistachio Amaretti
Soft, chewy, almond-scented amaretti cookies but with festive pistachios, a gorgeous addition to your Cookie Advent Collection!
These Pistachio Amaretti Cookies are a simple and delicious addition to your Cookie Advent collection. Soft, chewy, and full of almond and pistachio flavour, they are incredibly easy to make in the Thermomix. Perfect for gifting, entertaining, or enjoying with a cup of coffee, these cookies bring a touch of Italian festive charm to your kitchen with minimal effort.
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Need
- 100 Grams egg whites
- 1 Teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 Teaspoon honey
- 150 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 250 Grams Blanched Almonds Recipe
- 20 + 150 Grams shelled pistachios
- Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
- 1 Teaspoon almond extract or pistachio extract
- 50 Grams icing sugar mixture
Do
- 1
Preheat oven to 160°C and line a large baking tray with paper. Set aside.
- 2
Place egg whites and lemon juice into Thermomix bowl and whip 3 min/37°C/ Butterfly/speed 3/MC off.
- 3
Add honey and sugar through hole in lid while you whip 5 min/60°C/Butterfly/speed 3/MC off.
- 4
Remove meringue from Thermomix bowl and set aside.
- 5
Without cleaning bowl, add almonds, 20g pistachios, salt flakes and extract. Mill 10 sec/speed 10.
- 6
Add 1/2 of the meringue back into Thermomix bowl and mix 20 sec/Interval.
- 7
Finish folding in meringue with silicone spatula making sure you get all of the milled mixture from around the base of the blades.
- 8
Allow the mixture to sit in the bowl for 5 minutes while you prepare the coatings.
- 9
Roughly chop 150g pistachios.
- 10
Prepare two dishes, chopped pistachios in one and sieved icing sugar in the other.
- 11
Dollop a tablespoon of the mixture into the pistachios and roll or toss into an oval/ round shape. Transfer to the icing sugar and dust generously. Place onto the prepared tray and repeat with all of the mix. This is quite laborious, but all is forgiven in the baking, so don't be too precious about what they look like.
- 12
Bake 15-20 minutes or until just golden and fragrant. They should be pale, not dark in colour.
- 13
Keep in airtight container out of the fridge until use.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of nine, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
