Pistachio and Cream

What is it?

Pistachio is the most imitated flavour in the freezer. The real nut is mild, faintly savoury and a dull green-brown, nothing like the bright green version sold in a lot of places. The arrangement here keeps the nut out of the base entirely. Cream is the ice cream, with pistachio arriving as a sauce and as caramelised pieces, and almond sitting alongside pistachio in those pieces at the same rate. The two aren't interchangeable: almond holds a harder crunch under caramelised sugar, which is a fair part of why it's there. Keeping the base plain is the sensible call. Pistachio carries less oil than an almond or a hazelnut, so there's less fat to move its flavour through a mix, and its colour fades instead of deepening once it's ground.