Chicken Bastilla
Morocco's extraordinary sweet-savoury pie: crispy warqa pastry layered with spiced shredded chicken, a creamy egg filling and a crunchy almond layer dusted with icing sugar.
2h
6 people
- / 5.0
Uploaded by
halalme
🥘 Ingredients
1.5 kg chicken (whole or pieces)
8 sheets warqa or filo pastry
150 g whole almonds (blanched)
5 eggs
2 pinches saffron
4 tbsp icing sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
100 g unsalted butter
👨🍳 Instructions
Simmer chicken with onion, saffron, ginger, cinnamon, coriander and parsley until cooked. Shred the meat and discard bones.
Reduce the cooking liquid to a few tablespoons. Beat eggs into the hot liquid, stirring constantly until just set. Remove from heat.
Toast almonds and blitz roughly with cinnamon and icing sugar.
Brush a 28 cm round pan with melted butter. Layer 4 sheets of warqa or filo pastry, buttering each.
Spread shredded chicken, then egg mixture, then almond mixture. Fold pastry edges over. Lay 4 more buttered sheets on top and tuck underneath.
Bake at 190°C for 25–30 minutes until golden and very crispy.
Dust generously with icing sugar and ground cinnamon. Serve immediately while hot and crisp.
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