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