Moroccan food - How to make PASTILLA with SHRIMP

Moroccan cuisine is influenced by the kingdom’s interactions and exchanges with other cultures and nations over the centuries. Moroccan cuisine is typically a mix of Berber, Arabic, Andalusian, and Mediterranean cuisines with slight European and sub-Saharan influences.

Today we got for you one of the most famous dishes of traditional Moroccan cuisine Pastilla. It is in the form of a sweet, savory meat pie or spicy seafood pie with leaves of dough. It is said to be of Andalusi origin and is historically documented to be consumed in Morocco, and more recently introduced to Algeria, and Tunisia.

Usually Pastilla is made with chicken or beef but today we got a variation for the most daring of you, Pastilla with shrimps.

Ingredients 

• 250 g small pastilla leaves 
• 300 g peeled shrimp
• 300 g squid, diced
• 300 g white fish, diced
• 100 g rice vermicelli
• 80 g pitted green olives, cut
• in small pieces
• 1/4 candied lemon cut into pieces
• 150 g minced button mushrooms
• 100 g of melted butter
• Half a lemon juice

Preparation 

1. In a skillet over high heat, sauté in 3 tsp. butter squid and shrimp for 2 to 3 minutes then set aside in a bowl.
2. Brown the diced white fish in 2 tablespoons of butter over high heat for 2 to 3 minutes.In another pan, heat the olive oil and brown the onion, garlic, mushrooms, harissa, olives and spices for 5 minutes over medium heat. At the end of cooking add the candied lemon, parsley and coriander.Soak the vermicelli in hot water for 5 minutes, drain and cut it.
3. In a large bowl, carefully mix the fish white, seafood, vermicelli and the mushroom and onion mixture. Add the lemon juice and adjust the seasoning.
4. Divide the stuffing into four portions. Butter a small round pan, line it with a small sheet of pastilla, brush it with butter and cover it with a second sheet to strengthen it.
5. Garnish the pastilla leaf with a portion of stuffing, fold over the edges, coat them with butter and beaten egg to close them.
6. Place the small pastilla, folded side down, on a buttered baking sheet and brush with melted butter. Repeat the operation until the stuffing is used up.
7. Bake the pastillas in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Remove them from the oven as soon as they turn golden. Serve the hot pastillas.