Go nuts for pistachios: How to make delicious drinks inspired by Dubai chocolate
Unless you've been on a solo canoe-paddling expedition up the Amazon for the past six months, you can hardly have missed hearing about the phenomenon that is Dubai chocolate. It's a bar filled with pistachio cream, tahini and crunchy Middle Eastern pastry costing anything up to £15, and thanks to the kind of demand that only a sustained pounding from the TikTok artillery can generate, this pricey piece of chocolate indulgence is on sale practically everywhere. Probably even up the Amazon.
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