This is my third straight summer I've been to Marseille. And just like last summer the chicken ball has been on top of my to-do-list. This year I found out what the thing is actually called. Pastilla (or b'stilla) is the name of this delicious invention. The bakery I've been to the last two summers was closed (don't know if they had vacation or was out of business), but on the same street I found an almost identical pastilla to the one I've had before. It's a small phyllo pie filled with chicken, cinnamon and apple.
Another ten meters down the street a bakery called Le Soleil d'Egypte had another kind of pastilla filled with chicken, almonds and other things I'm not sure of. Not as sweet as the first one but still very good.
In Marseille you'll probably find pastillas at most bakeries in the area called Noailles.
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