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Dubai chocolate strawberries

Name: Dubai chocolate strawberries
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 450 g strawberries, large ones, hulled; 80 g phyllo dough, shredded — kataifi if you can find it; 1 tbsp butter; 2/3 cup pistachios, blitzed to a paste; a pinch salt; 120 g dark chocolate 60-69%, melted

The pistachio-and-crispy-pastry filling that took over chocolate in 2024, spooned into strawberries instead of a bar. The berries do most of the work by weight, which is the only reason this scores as well as it does — it is still a treat, and the numbers say so plainly.

Time: 25 min (15 prep + 10 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 421 kcal
Protein: 8 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

450 g strawberries, large ones, hulled450 g

Filling

80 g phyllo dough, shredded — kataifi if you can find it80 g
1 tbsp butter15 g
2/3 cup pistachios, blitzed to a paste80 g
a pinch salt1 g

120 g dark chocolate 60-69%, melted120 g

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Steps

Shred the phyllo into short threads and toast it in the butter over medium heat, stirring constantly, 5–8 minutes, until deep golden and properly crisp. Undertoasted pastry goes soft the moment it meets the pistachio.
Blitz the pistachios to a loose paste, then stir in the toasted pastry and the salt.
Hollow the strawberries slightly with the tip of a knife and pack the filling in.
Spoon or drizzle the melted chocolate over the top and let it set for 10 minutes. Eat the same day — the pastry softens overnight.

Where does the score come from?

The strawberries. They are two-thirds of the weight and almost none of the calories, so they carry the volume while the pistachio, pastry and chocolate carry the flavour. Swap the ratio and the number moves fast — the tuner shows exactly how fast.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

8% of kcal

59% water

15 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

21%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1684 kcal goes into the pot, 746 g of ingredients comes out as ~720 g of food → 234 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 234
Protein: (8%); 5 g
Fat: (54%); 14 g
Carbohydrates: (39%); 23 g
of which sugar: 10 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sodium: 123 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.