Pastilla - Moroccan Pigeon Pie, a recipe from the Worldwide Gourmet

Ingredients

• - 8 Pigeons or 1 chicken
• - 3 bowlfuls of chopped parsley
• - 1.5 kg (3 lb.) grated onion
• - 200 g (7 oz.) butter
• - 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• - 1 tsp. pepper
• - 1/2 tsp. Saffron
• - 8 hard-boiled eggs
• - 300 g (10 oz.) blanched, fried and ground Almonds
• - 1 glassful of sugar
• - Salt
• - 1 kg (2 1/4 lb.) large pastilla sheets (or phyllo)
• - 150 g (5 oz.) butter
• - 2 beaten eggs