Difficulty: Easy

Time: 25 Minutes

Ingredients (4 Persons):  200 gr. of shelled pistachios, 350 gr of penne rigate pasta, 1 medium onion, 1 teaspoon of butter, 150 gr. of cooked ham in one slice, 200 ml. of fresh cream

Before starting

• Cut the ham into medium sized cubes.
• Chop the onion finely.
• Minced (up to become a kind of flour) the shelled pistachios.
• Put a pot of water on the fire.

Preparation

In a pan, melt a teaspoon of butter and fry the onion until it gets blonde. Now add the diced ham and allow it to brown slightly (about 4 minutes).

Add the cream, salt, pepper, and 2 minutes after add the 3/4 of the chopped pistachios also, stir until all the cream has become totally green.

Once the cream gets cooked (about 5 minutes), if the water of the pot is boiling, pour the pasta and cook for the time indicated in the package.

Once pasta is cooked , drain it, trying to leave a bit of cooking water and toss in the pan where the pistachio sauce id. Stir over low heat.
Serve on plates and sprinkle some of the 1/4 of the pistachio we had left before on each plate.

Serve and ... bon appetit!