Moroccan chicken pastilla

Chicken Pastilla, a scrumptious Moroccan delicacy, made easy in a skillet. Tender shredded chicken with aromatic spices wrapped in crisp pastry layers.

Pastilla (Bastila or B’Stilla), an exotic dish of Moroccan cuisine, succulently cooked squab or chicken, layered with eggs, lemon, spices and crushed almonds, wrapped in crisp pastry and dusted with aromatic Middle Eastern spices, should find its way to your dinner party!

Although this pastilla recipe requires some time and energy, it makes for an amazingly aromatic chicken dish with unique flavor we never before thought to combine.

Chicken Pastilla, a scrumptious Moroccan delicacy, made easy in a skillet. Tender shredded chicken with aromatic spices wrapped in crisp pastry layers.

Pastilla

Pastilla, a sweet and savory layered Moroccan pie, with spiced chicken, almonds in crunchy filo dough topped with cinnamon powdered sugar.

Omayma marwani | Moroccan Chicken Pastilla 🇲🇦 ingredients: Large chicken weighing 2.5 kilos 6 large onions 8 garlic cloves salt , black pepper, ginger... | Instagram

Chicken Pastilla I have always found difficult to give an answer to the often asked question "what is your favorite cuisine?" Because there is not one.

Moroccan cuisine loves to mix salty and sweet flavours - no-where is this more evident than in their much-loved Pastilla. A fragrant shredded chicken, egg and almond filled pie, baked to golden-crisp perfection and then finished with a generous dusting of icing sugar and cinnamon. A salty-sweet masterpiece. Our own version, strays a little from tradition though stays true to the wonderful ingredients that make this pie so tempting. Typically, a Pastilla features a layer of shredded…

Inspired by the exotic spices of the Middle East, this sweet and savoury chicken pastilla is filled with freekeh, almonds, kale and dried fruits.