A top view of a rustic, traditional food dish on a black plate, styled with forks and spices.
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Jawhara Milk Pastilla

Dessert

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A top view of a rustic, traditional food dish on a black plate, styled with forks and spices.

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Crisp pastry sheets layered at service with a scented milk or cream preparation and nuts in many contemporary versions.

Description And serving traditions

Crisp pastry sheets layered at service with a scented milk or cream preparation and nuts in many contemporary versions.

Ingredients and raw materials

  • warqaorcrisppastry
  • milkorcream
  • sugar
  • almonds — optional or regional variation
  • orangeblossomwater — optional or regional variation
  • cinnamon — optional or regional variation

How it is made

  1. Prepare and chill milk component.
  2. Assemble close to service.

Stories and variations

A refined layered dessert associated with urban pastry service; no royal-origin story asserted.

Table & terroir

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Region
Fes-Meknes

Table & terroir

At the Moroccan table

Food family
Moroccan-traditional
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