Chicken Pastilla
Baking and Desserts | Moroccan cuisine
⏳ Time
1 hour 20 minutes
🥕 Ingredients
16
🍽️ Servings
6
Description
Chicken Pastilla
Ingredients
- Skin-On Chicken Breasts - 4 pieces
- Onion - 14.1 oz
- Chopped almonds - 4.2 oz
- Cilantro - 0.4 oz
- Butter - 0.7 oz
- Parsley - 2.5 oz
- Olive Oil - 1 tablespoon
- Ras el Hanout - 1 teaspoon
- Cinnamon - 2 teaspoons
- Orange Blossom Water - 2 tablespoons
- Water - 3 fl oz
- Sugar - 1.4 oz
- Egg white - 2 pieces
- Puff Pastry - 2 pieces
- Powdered Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Salt - to taste
Step by Step guide
Step 1
In a dry skillet over medium heat, toast the almonds until golden.
Step 2
Melt 25 g of butter in the skillet, add olive oil. Season the chicken breasts with salt and fry until golden brown. Then remove the chicken from the skillet.
Step 3
In the same skillet, sauté the finely chopped onion with salt. Add the spices, orange blossom water, and regular water. Bring everything to a boil.
Step 4
Return the chicken breasts to the skillet, reduce the heat, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Step 5
Caramelize the sugar in a non-stick skillet until it reaches a caramel state.
Step 6
Add the almonds to the caramel, stir, remove from heat, and let cool.
Step 7
Remove the chicken from the skillet and transfer the liquid to a bowl.
Step 8
Let the chicken cool. Shred it by hand into fibers.
Step 9
Finely chop the almonds.
Step 10
Beat the eggs, add them to the onion, and mix in the chopped herbs.
Step 11
Preheat the oven to 392°F.
Step 12
Melt the remaining butter. Brush one sheet of puff pastry with butter.
Step 13
Place the sheet in a round baking dish, at the bottom.
Step 14
Spread half of the onion mixture over the sheet. Use a spoon to level the surface.
Step 15
Sprinkle with half of the almonds. Add pieces of chicken, then top with the remaining almonds and onion.
Step 16
Cover with another sheet of pastry, pinch the edges. Brush the surface with oil.
Step 17
Sprinkle with water and place in the oven for 10–15 minutes.
Step 18
Dust the pie with powdered sugar, return to the oven on the grill setting for a couple of minutes until the sugar caramelizes.
Step 19
Garnish the pie with whole almonds and serve.
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