Pastilla
A sweet-and-savory pie for celebrations
Think of it as: Like a chicken pot pie dressed as a dessert
Pigeon pie, dusted with sugar. Yes, really.
What does it taste like?
Savory, warmly spiced meat under a sweet cinnamon-sugar crust.
SweetSpicySourSaltyFunkSmellTextureShatteringly crisp pastry, moist filling
What is it?
Morocco's showstopper pie: paper-thin warqa pastry wrapped around spiced pigeon (often chicken today), eggs and almonds. It's finished with powdered sugar and cinnamon.Source: Wikipedia
How locals eat it
Served first at weddings and feasts, broken open and shared by hand.
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🇲🇦Morocco
CapitalRabat
Populationabout 38.8 millionestimate (unverified)
IndustriesPhosphate, Tourism, Cars, Farming and fishing
The largest city is Casablanca.
Famous peopleIbn Battuta14th-century traveler who journeyed across the known world
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And JapanMuch of the octopus eaten in Japan comes from northwest Africa, including Morocco.
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MusicGnawa Spiritual music with clanging iron castanets
Listen on YouTube SportSoccer
Achraf Hakimi (soccer; Morocco's fullback) World HeritageMedina of Fez and more National animalBarbary lion National flowerRose FestivalGnaoua World Music Festival (early summer, Essaouira)
Ingredients
- 600g chicken (traditionally pigeon)
- 2 onions
- 4 eggs
- 100g almonds
- 10 spring roll wrappers or filo sheets
- Cinnamon, ginger, saffron
- 3 tbsp powdered sugar
- 50g butter
Can't find it? Filo or spring roll wrappers replace warqa.
How to make it (one way)
- Simmer meat and onions with spices for 1 hour, then shred
- Reduce the broth and scramble the eggs into it
- Toast and chop almonds, mix with sugar and cinnamon
- Layer buttered pastry, add the fillings and fold closed
- Bake at 180°C for 30 min, then decorate with sugar and cinnamon