Today we prepare a first course using the combined Sciara Pistachio Pennette, Sciara Pistachio Pesto and Sciara Chopped Pistachio. This combination can be ordered in a single product: the Sciara Pasta Kit.
Speaking of Penne, did you know that they are one of the few pasta shapes of which we know the inventor? This is Giovanni Battista Capurro, pasta maker from San Martino d'Albano, a small village not far from Genoa. The machine he created, in March 1865, allowed fresh pasta to be cut diagonally without crushing it, thus transforming it into a format that resembled the nibs of fountain pens, the pens!
Another curiosity: in its first versions this pasta was colored, in the medieval way, with saffron. We instead decided to color it green with our Sicilian Pistachios.
Our friend and food blogger Chiara Caprettini of NordFoodOvestEst, gave us a recipe that enhances the flavor of Pistachio by combining it with an unusual ingredient in our area, which is used more often in France, smoked duck breast!