Strawberry & Pistachio Nougat Recipe (2024)

Strawberry & Pistachio Nougat Recipe (1)

By Nicola Lando

  • 220 minutes prep time

  • 15 minutes cook time

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  • Intermediate

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What is nougat made of?

Nougat, also known as torrone in Italy, is a type of confectionery made with sugar, honey, roasted nuts and whisked egg whites. Nougat has a chewy texture, and, as well as roasted nuts, can include chopped fruit and flavourings such as lemon and chocolate.

How do you store nougat?

Nougat is a wonderful edible bake to gift as it stores well. Once you’ve cut the nougat into squares, you can package it into an airtight container and eat within a month. If you want to give the nougat as a present, it can be wrapped in cellophane or kept in a Kilner jar.

How to flavour nougat

Strawberry and pistachios combine perfectly in this nougat recipe. The freeze-dried strawberry powder gives a hint of strawberry flavour and delicate pink colour, which contrasts with the vibrant green of the pistachios.

We've addedbeautiful and unique brightgreen skinless pistachio nuts to the nougat recipe for theirintensity of colour. These green pistachios are a very special ingredient to keep in the store cupboard: add to vibrant Middle Eastern salads, grind finely to sprinkle vibrant pistachio powder over cakes and choux pastries, or chop and use to coat chocolate truffles.However,if you don't think you will use awhole 1kg bag over the next few months just exchange for ordinary pistachionuts.

Finally, ifyou preferto colour the whole of the nougat recipe a pale pink instead of the striations in the photos, just add the freeze-dried strawberry powder to the egg whites before whiskingin the sugar syrup.

How to make nougat

Nougat is straightforward to make - and the method is very similar to that for making marshmallows. A very hot sugar syrup inwhisked intobeaten egg whites whilst it cools, forminga set foam. As the syrup is poured into the egg, the scent ofhoney wafts through the kitchen, and the egg mixture turns a very pale gold.You determine how firm the nougat recipe will set depending on the temperature the sugar syrup is heated to. Anything from 125°C for a very soft nougat to 155°C for a very firm set nougat.

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Ingredients for nougat Serves: 10

  • 2 sheets of A4 wafer paper
  • 300g granulated sugar
  • 150g honey
  • 50g water
  • 50g egg white (two small eggs)
  • 150g green pistachio nuts
  • 10g freeze-dried strawberry powderor ground freeze-dried strawberries
  • Vegetable oil for greasing

Equipment for nougat

  • Stand mixer
  • Thermometer
  • Rolling pin

Method for nougat

  1. Heat together sugar, honey and water in a saucepan.Whilst the sugarsareheating, whisk egg whites to firm peaks.
  2. When the sugar mixture reaches 145°C, with the whisk runningat high speed, slowly pour the sugar syrup into the egg whites. Continue whisking as the nougat mixture cools. After 10 minutes the nougat will be thick and smooth, and after further few minutes itwill become hard to work and start to tear apart.
  3. Turn off the whisk and addthe pistachios and strawberry powder. Mix firmly with a wooden spoon until the nuts are well dispersed and the nougat comes together again in a ball. Turn out onto the centre of a sheet of wafer paper on your kitchen counter.
  4. Flatten the nougat with a lightly oiled spatula, and press over the second piece of waferpaper. Usinga rolling pin, roll out to desired thickness.
  5. Leave to cool for 3-5 hours until set, trim away any excess rice paper and cut into squares shortly before eating.

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About the author

Nicola is co-founder and CEO at Sous Chef. She has worked in food for over ten years.

Nicola first explored cooking as a career when training at Leiths, before spending the next decade in Finance. However... after a stage as a chef at a London Michelin-starred restaurant, Nicola saw the incredible ingredients available only to chefs. And wanted access to them herself. So Sous Chef was born.

Today, Nicola is ingredients buyer and a recipe writer at Sous Chef. She frequently travels internationally to food fairs, and to meet producers. Her cookbook library is vast, and her knowledge of the storecupboard is unrivalled. She tastes thousands of ingredients every year, to select only the best to stock at Sous Chef.

Nicola shares her knowledge of ingredients and writes recipes to showcase those products. Learning from Sous Chef's suppliers and her travels, Nicola writes many of the recipes on the Sous Chef website. Nicola's recipes are big on flavour, where the ingredients truly shine (although that's from someone who cooks for hours each day - so they're rarely tray-bakes!).

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6 comments

  • The honey taste overwhelms the strawberry and pistachio taste. It never turned hard and was a gooey mess. Waste of expensive ingredients.

    Carolyn on

  • First attempt, far too soft and not set. I knew it would take a few goes to get it right so not too disappointed… I’ll keep going.

    John Gessler on

  • Of course, the nougat will keep, stored in an airtight container, for up to 2 weeks

    Ellie @ Sous Chef on

  • Looks yummy – Can you store? What is the shelf life? Thanks

    MRS SHARON J HARDING on

  • Hi, THANKYOU for sharing your nougat recipe. Just wondering how to store it and how long does it last please. I’m wanting to make it for Christmas gifts. Thanks again

    Karen on

  • Do you have a catalog? And do you ship to the us. I have friends in England that are coming to the us in may if you don’t. Am excited about the nougat and the rose petals marshmallows. Let me know. Thanks Janine

    Janine Wolfe on

Strawberry & Pistachio Nougat Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What are the three types of nougat? ›

There are three main types of nougat: white, brown, and viennese. White nougat, the most common variety, is likely what you're familiar with.

Why is my homemade nougat too soft? ›

I was taught that in addition to having your sugar at the right temperature, it's important to test the nougat as you beat it, if it's cooling down and still not making a nice firm consistency when you put it in iced water, you need to apply heat to the bowl to evaporate more water from the mixture until you get the ...

How is nougat made of? ›

Nougat is a confection made with sugar or honey that's cooked and then whipped with egg whites to aerate it. It often contains almonds or other nuts, candied fruits and chocolate, although it can be left plain. Nougat can be soft and tender like marshmallow but is more often dense and very chewy.

Should nougat be soft or hard? ›

It can either be soft and chewy or hard and crunchy depending on the degree to which the sugar syrup is cooked and the proportion of sugar syrup to egg white.

What is the most popular nougat? ›

The two most popular varieties of Spanish nougat include the soft variety referred to as turrón blando or turrón de Jijona and the hard variety called turrón duro or turrón de Alicante, hailing from the respective Spanish towns of Jijona and Alicante.

What is nougat made of in a 3 Musketeers? ›

The nougat chocolate center is made by whipping egg whites until they are light and frothy. Sugar syrup is then added, stabilizing the foam and creating mousse. Other flavoring ingredients are then added to the mousse to create specific flavors.

What kind of nuts are in nougat? ›

Nougat (US: /ˈnuːɡət/ NOO-gət, UK: /ˈnuːɡɑː/ NOO-gah; French: [nuɡa]; Persian: نوقا) is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts are common), whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit.

What country is famous for nougat? ›

France Nougat: Made in the Provence region since at least the sixteenth century. Known as 'nogat' in the Middle Ages. In Provence the name is said to come from 'tu nous gates,' or, 'you spoil us.

What does nougat mean in English? ›

nougat. noun. nou·​gat ˈnü-gət. : a candy of nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste.

Why do you put cocoa butter in nougat? ›

Pre-Crystallization of Nougat by Seeding with Cocoa Butter Crystals Enhances the Bloom Stability of Nougat Pralines.

How to tell if nougat is bad? ›

Therefore, the most direct way to know if a nougat is of good quality is by looking at its ingredients and the minimum percentage they make up in the product. If the nougat has little almond and little honey it is telling us that its quality is low.

How long can you keep homemade nougat? ›

Use a serrated knife in a sawing motion to cut the nougat crossways into 3cm-wide pieces and then cut each piece into about 4cm lengths. Place nougat in a clean, dry airtight container, separating layers with non-stick baking paper. Keep in a cool, dry place for 1-2 weeks or in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.

What is the difference between French and Italian nougat? ›

Italy's version of nougat is called the torrone. Torrone is a form of white nougat that is very similar to soft nougat in many ways yet there are some differences. One difference between French nougat and torrone is that torrone is finished off with white icing on top after it has been made.

What's the difference between nougat and nougatine? ›

“Nougatine” refers to a clear or light-brown nut-based bark obtained by cooking sugar until converted into caramel. (Not to be confused with nougat which is a sweet made from egg whites, sugar, honey and nuts).

What is pink and white nougat? ›

Pink And White Nougat 125g. Classic delicious chewy sweet from the '80s. Ingredients. Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Roasted PEANUTS, Coconut, EGG White, Natural Flavourings, Natural Colour E120.

What candy bar is all nougat? ›

Some American confections feature this type of nougat as the primary component, rather than combined with other elements. Varieties of nougat are found in Milky Way, Reese's Fast Break, Snickers, Double Decker, ZERO bars, and Baby Ruth bars. "Fluffy nougat" is the featured ingredient in the 3 Musketeers bar.

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