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Pastilla with Bananas and Apples
Recipe courtesy Moha Orchid from Cookies and Couscous, New York

Ingredients
1 pound butter, for pastry, plus 1 tablespoon butter
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh lavender
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
2 tablespoons runny honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon rosewater
10 bananas, peeled
8 apples, chopped
1 cup blanched, peeled, and crushed almonds
Pastilla pastry or phyllo

Directions
Melt the butter for the pastry.

In a separate pan, melt 1 tablespoon of butter with chopped lavender, honey, and
cinnamon. Add the rosewater.

Add whole bananas to melted butter and glaze. After about 10 minutes add the
apples. Then add 1/2 the crushed almonds.

Brush pastry with melted butter. Make a secure base (2 layers of pastry). Fill the
pastry case with 1/4 cup almonds first (so they soak up the excess juices from the
fruit), then the bananas and apples and finally the remaining almonds. Close the
pastry case with more phyllo, press down, butter the edges to make it stick.

Place in a hot oven (400 degrees F) for 10 minutes. Then turn the oven down to 225
degrees F for the final 5 minutes.