Pastilla
North African pie made from meat and layered pastry dough / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the North African meat pie. For the Philippine milk-based confectionery, see Pastillas. For Russian fruit confectionery, see Pastila.
"Bastilla" redirects here. For the genus of moths, see Bastilla (moth).
Pastilla (Arabic: بسطيلة, romanized: basṭīla, also called North African pie) is a meat or seafood pie in Maghrebi cuisine made with warqa dough (ورقة), which is similar to filo. It is a specialty of Morocco, Algeria,[1][lower-alpha 1][3][4] and Tunisia, where its variation is known as malsouka.[5]: 1190 [6] It has more recently been spread by emigrants to France, Israel, and North America.