Pastilla, the pie of Fez — Morocco · Cuisine World
Pastilla is a round pie of paper-thin pastry, filled with chicken and almonds and topped with cinnamon and sugar. Cuisine World · MyLeoNes.
Your task
Choose the best option at each step.
- An adult cooks the chicken filling on the stove and bakes the pie. The thin pastry sheets are called warqa.
- Simulation: heat, ovens, hot oil and knives are only pretend here. At home, always cook with an adult.
- Allergens: check the label with an adult (gluten, milk, egg, nuts, peanut, shellfish, soy, sesame). We never ask about your allergies.
Score
- Safe kitchen — Adult, clean hands, cool handles: you cooked safely.
- Technique — Right order, right amounts, right timing.
- Food knowledge — You understood why it works — and where it comes from.
Around the world
Pastilla, also written bastilla, is strongly linked to Fez and is served at weddings and big family celebrations. The old recipe used pigeon; today chicken is very common.
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Simulation only: heat, ovens, hot oil and knives are pretend. At home always cook with an adult. Allergens are shown, never asked — nothing about you is collected; progress stays on this device.
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