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• Ingredients
• 2 cups raw, shelled pistachios (not salted, not roasted)
• 1 tsp. ground cardamom
• Pinch of salt
• 2 heaping Tbsp. honey
• 2/3 cups bittersweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a baking dish, about 7×7, with parchment paper so that the paper overhangs the sides for easy removal from the dish.

In a medium bowl, stir together pistachios, cardamom, and salt. Stir in honey and mix until nuts are well coated. Place the nuts into the paper-lined dish and spread as evenly as possible. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-18 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.

Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave (or stovetop). Drizzle over the pistachio mix and smooth out as well as possible. Let cool until the chocolate loses its shine and hardens.

Pull the paper with the pistachio bars up and out of the baking dish. Cut into pieces and serve.

NOTES: This recipe comes from Nadia’s Healthy Kitchen. Nadia’s presentation and photos are simply gorgeous. Go look. She uses metric measurements and I did weigh out my nuts, but I think a couple cups of nuts will do it. These are seriously addictive, so my pieces are cut really small. The flavor is AMAZING! I wonder how these would be with a bit of orange zest or orange flavor. To melt chocolate chips in the microwave, start with 30 seconds then stir. Give it 20 seconds more and stir again. Give it 15 seconds more and stir again. Repeat until no solids remain while stirring.