Recipe review: Dubai chocolate bar

By: Austin Bailey-Zimmerman

Ingredients:

2 cups of Kataifi
1 tbls butter
1 cup of pistachio paste
2 ½ cups of milk chocolate

*You can get Kataifi and pistachio paste online and at stores like Golden Nuts

*need a chocolate bar mold*

Instructions:

Roughly chop up the kataifi dough.
melt your butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-low heat, coating the pan.
Add in the chopped kataifi threads and stir occasionally until they become golden brown (about 5-10 mins) and remove from the skillet.
In a large bowl, mix the toasted kataifi with pistachio paste, then set aside.
Melt the milk chocolate in a double boiler.
Spread the melted chocolate on the inside of the chocolate bar mold until it covers the entire bottom.
Freeze for 10 mins.
Spoon the pistachio and kataifi mixture into the mold. Use a knife to flatten the filling and ensure it is spread to the sides of the mold.
Gently add a top layer of milk chocolate to the mold.
Freeze for another 10 mins or until the chocolate hardens.
Enjoy!

Background:

The Dubai chocolate bar is a viral chocolate bar filled with Kataifi, which is tiny shredded crunchy dough, and pistachio cream. It is originally a dessert from Dubai, and is from Fix Dessert Chocolatier, where the catchphrase is “Can’t get Knafeh of it”. The chocolate bar has become a viral dessert in 2024 particularly on TikTok.

Review:

I absolutely loved this recipe. I have been seeing Dubai chocolate all over the internet and I have wanted to try it for so long. I found this great recipe and got a chocolate mold and decided to try it out for myself. My friend and I followed this very easy step-by-step recipe, and the result was amazing!

The chocolate bar was so sweet and the filling was the perfect mixture of crunchy and creamy. The pistachio and chocolate went together perfectly, the flavors balancing each other out. The bar was very big and I could easily split it with my friend.

I got this recipe from https://www.chocolatesandchai.com/dubai-chocolate-bar/ by Sarah Hamouda, and she did a great job making the recipe easy to follow and have great results every time!

I will definitely be making this again, and so should you! I hope you enjoy!