Pistachio Paste 绿水鬼开心果糊
Dessert @ "Yuen Yeung 鸳鸯".
For those of us growing up with southern Chinese ancestry, desserts make with grounded up meals from black sesame seeds, peanuts, almonds, walnut etc, sweetened with sugar and slow-cooked until luscious and smooth are not uncommon. However, Pistachio, being an ingredient from Middle-Eastern origins, is novel and this dessert place, offering such, with it's livid greenness on social media, caught my attention.
The aroma and flavour from the initial mouthfuls were spot-on.....and my mate, who loved pistachios, was happy. But the sprinkled bits of deep-fried/deep-roasted(?) pecan sparked doubts from myself as I found them greasy to the bite. I personally, thought the bowl needed more sweetness as the taste risked falling flat after the initial mouthfuls. In fact, I detected some subtle sourness. And for a person who loves the traditional grounded almond paste....I found the texture of the pistachio paste...."gelatinuously starchy" as opposed to a smooth nutty creaminess. The texture reminded myself of cornstarch in fact! I was musing, as pistachios are more expensive than the other more common ingredients, if the real grounded pistachio paste was diluted down with cornstarch and hence delivered that slightly off-putting more watery texture.
High promises but delivered mix results for myself.
Pistachio Paste 绿水鬼开心果糊
Dessert @ "Yuen Yeung 鸳鸯".
For those of us growing up with southern Chinese ancestry, desserts make with grounded up meals from black sesame seeds, peanuts, almonds, walnut etc, sweetened with sugar and slow-cooked until luscious and smooth are not uncommon. However, Pistachio, being an ingredient from Middle-Eastern origins, is novel and this dessert place, offering such, with it's livid greenness on social media, caught my attention.
The aroma and flavour from the initial mouthfuls were spot-on.....and my mate, who loved pistachios, was happy. But the sprinkled bits of deep-fried/deep-roasted(?) pecan sparked doubts from myself as I found them greasy to the bite. I personally, thought the bowl needed more sweetness as the taste risked falling flat after the initial mouthfuls. In fact, I detected some subtle sourness. And for a person who loves the traditional grounded almond paste....I found the texture of the pistachio paste...."gelatinuously starchy" as opposed to a smooth nutty creaminess. The texture reminded myself of cornstarch in fact! I was musing, as pistachios are more expensive than the other more common ingredients, if the real grounded pistachio paste was diluted down with cornstarch and hence delivered that slightly off-putting more watery texture.
High promises but delivered mix results for myself.