Chicken pastilla

Name: Chicken pastilla
Yield: To serve 4 shameless or 6 polite guests
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 240 ml water; 1 packet of filo pastry (about 250–270g); 1 cinnamon stick; 60 g melted butter (or oil/other fat if avoiding dairy); 3 onions, peeled and sliced thinly (about 300g); 1 tsp + 1 tsp salt; 6 chicken thighs with skin and bones (about 800g); 1 dried red chilli (you can remove the seeds if you prefer milder flavours); 1 tsp pepper; 2 tbsp ras el hanut spice mix; 100 g pitted dates

Preparation info

To serve
4
shameless or

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Honey & Co

By Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer

Published 2014

About

Serve this with a big plate of orange slices and rocket drizzled in lemon juice and olive oil, and with great pride.

Ingredients

6 chicken thighs with skin and bones (about 800g)
1 tsp + 1 tsp salt
1 tsp

Asia
Turkey
Israel
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Heat your oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas mark 6.

Put a large frying pan on a medium heat. Place the chicken thighs skin-side down in it and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of salt and the pepper. You won’t need to add any oil to cook it in, as the skin will render a lot of fat. Keep it o