Mhencha with Ground Chicken and Quail Eggs - Ramadan Special!

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Mhencha literally means 'coiled like a snake' and it was originally a dessert
filled with almond paste and covered with honey syrup. Nowadays, you
can find many types of fillings for the mhencha, savory or sweet.
A few days ago I was reading one of my favorite cooking magazines
'Saveurs et Cuisine du Maroc' and it had a recipe about individual
mhencha with a little quail egg in the center. I loved the idea, and I
made my own version of it by replacing the chicken liver filling they
used with my own spicy ground meat chicken filling.
Quail eggs are packed with vitamins and minerals such as B1, B12, iron
and phosphorus, much more than a chicken egg.
I encourage you to get some quail eggs and try this wonderful recipe!

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[marginallymental]

Alia, where on earth can I find good things like pidgeon breasts or quail eggs online? I live in the deep Pacific Northwest desert -- yes, we're actually desert in Eastern Washington!---and I want so badly to make pastilla the way I ate it in a Moroccan restaurant when I was a kid. You just cannot conceive how delicious Moroccan food was to my young tastebuds! Also, I'll look, but do you have a recipe for a cold roasted eggplant salad/spread I've eaten somewhere in the dark past?! THANK YOU!

[cookingwithalia]

@marginallymental I think I can help with all these questions!

1- instead of pigeons you can just use chicken. Watch my video on how to make "Chicken BAstilla". also, instead of using Warka you can use PHyllo dough, it should be in the frozen section of your supermarket.

2- yes I do have the video for the eggplant salad, it's called 'zaalouk'. Just search in my videos.

3- best bet to find any ingredients: amazon.com!

[cookingwithalia]

@candyflipdhippy I would but I am already married!

[jojzoro]

I like how you give the credit to people whom you learnt from

[Nezhalaoui]

Salam Alia.

I love ur channel i tried a lot of recipes they all were success. Thanks a lot for making it easy and simple for us. My question however is what kind of foundation are u wearing in this video. I like how it is matte and not shiny. Thanks in advance.

[wetever100]

im going to try this dish tonight . thakns dear, and ramdan mubarak

[RujieKU]

Hi Alia,

I love your receipts, made so many of your dishes and who ever had it wore very impressed :) - Thanks

Quick question is there anyway of making a big batch Mhencha and freezing them so I can serve them throughout ramadan?

[RujieKU]

Hi Alia,

I love your receipts, made so many of your dishes and who ever had it wore very impressed :) - Thanks

Quick question is there anyway of making a big batch Mhencha and freezing them so I can serve them throughout ramadan?

[marginallymental]

In a million years, I wouldn't have guessed that I could buy food ingredients at Amazon.com! Thanks so much for your kind suggestion, as well as your video on "zaalouk", a heavenly salad on a hot evening. And speaking of "heavenly", whatever else exists in Paradise, I KNOW there's Moroccan food there! Thank you again!

[TailithSky]

@cookingwithalia lolz - candy flip hippy? how many of us know what that is eh? he he he . . .

[ckiassi1]

Shokran! Thank you so much for your Bistilla viedo and others. I just made the Bistilla and my Morrocan husband is very impressed. He is very happy that he is getting this for dinner tonight. Taste wonderful he say! Ana farhana!! I am very happy!