Chicken and almonds pastilla
This recipe is difficult to make, but worth every second you spend preparing it, it is very famous in Morocco and is prepared on important ceremonies and occasions, you will certainly enjoy it.
These are the ingredients you will need:
These are the ingredients you will need:
Ingredients
- 10 sheets of pastry
- 1 chicken, cut into small pieces
- 1 egg yolk
- 100g melted butter
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- Pure saffron , to taste
- 60ml vegetable oil
- 1 liter of water
- 200g of chopped parsley and coriander
- 6 eggs
- 250 g almonds
- 150g icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange flower water
- Vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (to mix with the chicken when cooked)
- For the garnish: 2 tablespoons of honey, cinnamon, icing sugar
Instructions
- Now let’s see the preparation:
Put the oil in a preheated pan and add the onions - Add the chicken, parsley , cilantro, and spices and mix very well
- Add the water, cover and cook for 45 minutes
- Soak the almonds in hot water and then peel off the skin
- Bake until they are golden
- Let it cool and place in a blender and blend
- Add the icing sugar and orange flower water. Mix until you get a paste
- Remove the chicken from the pot and add the eggs
- Stir over low heat. The sauce will thicken
- Cut chicken into small pieces and add cinnamon
- Cut pastry sheets for a rounded shape
- Put the oil in a round mold
- Butter the pastry sheets and place in a pan. Repeat for 4 more sheets
- Overlay the sheets while leaving the third of which exceeding the mold
- Put other sheets in the center of the mold
- Place chicken in the mold and cover with buttered foil
- Add the egg mixture over the sheets and cover with foil
- Then add the mixture of crushed almonds
- Brush the edges of the sheets overflowing with butter and fold each sheet to close the pastilla
- Brush the edge of a sheet with egg yolk and place on top sealing the sides
- Brush the surface with butter and bake at 350 F (180 C) for 30 minutes
Decorate with icing sugar, cinnamon and some crushed almonds.
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