Tunisian Chicken Tagine with Brik Pastry

The Tunisian name for this dish is tagine malsouka, the latter being the Tunisian word for the crisp, paper-thin pastry Tunisians use to wrap up foods for deep frying, including their famous street dish: brik.

Brik pastry, which is as thin as phyllo dough, is also used in the capital city of Tunis as a wrapping for a Tunisian “tagine, ” which is not a stew cooked in a conical clay dish as in Morocco, but something akin to an Italian frittata with meat or chicken