Bstilla bil Hout
- 1 1/4 pounds firm white fish, such as cod or haddock
- Salt
- 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1/21 teaspoon cumin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
- Good pinch of ground chili pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley, or more
- 1 cup chopped cilantro, or more
- 8 ounces cooked, peeled large shrimp
- 6 sheets fillo pastry
- About 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 egg yolk
- Poach the fish in salted water very briefly, until it just begins to flake, then drain.
- Remove the skin and flake it into pieces.
- In a bowl, mix the olive oil and lemon juice with the cumin, paprika, and ground chili pepper, the garlic, parsley, and cilantro.
- Put in the fish and shrimp and turn to cover all the pieces with this marinade.
- Open out the sheets of fillo when you are ready to make the pies and be prepared to work fast.
- Leave the sheets in a pile and brush the top one with vegetable oil.
- Put a sixth of the filling mixture in a flat mound on one side of the sheet, about 3 1/2 inches from the edge, in the center.
- Let it spread over a surface of about 3 1/2 inches.
- Wrap the filling up into a flat square parcel: Fold the nearest edge of the sheet over the filling, then very carefully lift the part of the sheet with the filling and turn over.
- Continue to turn the parcel over, folding the 2 side ends up at different turns so that the filling ends up covered with several layers of pastry.
- (See drawings on page 121.)
- Continue with the remaining sheets and filling, and arrange the parcels on a sheet of foil on a baking sheet.
- Brush the tops with the egg yolk mixed with 1 teaspoon of water and bake in a preheated 350F oven for 3545 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and brown.
- Serve hot.
firm white fish, salt, extravirgin olive oil, lemon, cumin, paprika, ground chili pepper, garlic, flatleaf parsley, cilantro, shrimp, pastry, vegetable oil, egg yolk
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/bstilla-bil-hout-373261 (may not work)