Bottega Pistho
35% real hazelnuts versus Nutella's 13%
Let's play a game: take the Nutella jar from your cupboard and read the ingredients. First comes sugar. Then palm oil. Hazelnuts? Just 13%. Now read ours: cane sugar, hazelnut 35%, sunflower oil, cocoa butter. That's it. No palm oil, no artificial flavours, no soy lecithin. The difference isn't opinion — it's arithmetic.
Our Organic Hazelnut Cream was born from a simple belief: a spread should taste of what it contains. And this one tastes of hazelnut — real hazelnut, slow-roasted, with a fragrance that fills the kitchen when you open the jar for the first time.
The scent that fills the kitchen
The first thing you'll notice isn't the taste — it's the aroma. Open the jar and breathe in the roast: warm, enveloping, with a hint of caramel. On the palate, hazelnut dominates everything. The sweetness is there but never overpowers. The consistency is creamy, slightly thicker than industrial spreads — because it isn't puffed up with emulsifiers and hydrogenated fats.
The colour is a natural warm brown, not the uniform dark brown you get from industrial cocoa. It's simply the colour of hazelnuts.
Five ways to enjoy it (and one secret)
- Sunday crêpes — Warm a crêpe, spread a generous spoonful, fold into a triangle. In 3 minutes you have the perfect breakfast.
- Sicilian brioche col tuppo — Slice a Sicilian brioche in half, fill with cream. Close your eyes: you're in a café in Sicily.
- Banana and hazelnut — Slice a banana, add a spoonful of cream, crushed hazelnuts on top. A snack kids and adults both love.
- In porridge — A teaspoon in warm morning porridge. The cream melts and transforms oats into a gourmet breakfast.
- Cake base — Melted in a bain-marie, it becomes a hazelnut ganache for filling cakes and biscuits.
The secret way: straight from the jar, by the spoonful, standing at the open fridge at midnight. We all do it. No judgement.
In Sicily, hazelnuts are as sacred as pistachios. Children grow up with bread and homemade cream from their grandmother — a cream that has never seen a gram of palm oil in its life.
Palm oil free: not marketing, a real choice
Palm oil is the cheapest fat on the market. That's why big companies use it: low cost, smooth texture. But the planet pays the price — deforestation, biodiversity loss, CO2 emissions — and so does flavour, because it coats everything in a greasy, anonymous film.
We use sunflower seed oil and cocoa butter. Does it cost more? Yes. Can you taste the difference? Absolutely. The hazelnut flavour arrives clean, unfiltered.
Organic by conviction, not by label
Certified BIO (IT BIO 006, controlled operator No. D58G). Hazelnuts grown without synthetic pesticides, cane sugar from organic farming, slow-controlled roasting to preserve natural aromas.
A gift that wins everyone over
200g in a classic glass jar. Perfect as a gourmet gift: those who receive it, reorder it. We know because our customers write it in their reviews — and come back to buy three at a time.