Moorish Chicken and Nut Pie

This is one of my favorite recipes of all times, a swooningly good pie, clearly related to the Moroccan bastila, but not nearly as sweet, rich, and time-consuming. Pastela moruna is a specialty at many bakeshops in the bewitching Andalusian city of Granada, and local food historians like to say that the recipe was made by the Moorish aristocracy of the Alhambra palace and then kept alive in convents by nuns. Romantic as that sounds, it’s more likely to have been borrowed from