🇲🇦 Morocco cuisine · #3

Pastilla (Bastilla)

Pastilla (Bastilla)
Time150 min
Serves8
Ingredients11

A royal pie of warqa pastry filled with spiced chicken or pigeon and toasted almonds, dusted with sugar and cinnamon — the crown of Fassi cooking.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Cook the chicken with onion, herbs, spices and a little water until tender; bone and shred.
  2. Reduce the remaining sauce, then stir in beaten eggs until just set.
  3. Mix the almonds with sugar and cinnamon.
  4. In a buttered tin layer the sheets, brushing with butter, then add the egg layer, the chicken and the almonds.
  5. Fold over the sheets and cover with more.
  6. Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes until golden; dust with sugar and cinnamon.