Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood paella. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Paella is a classic Spanish dish of rice cooked with shellfish and seasoned with saffron. It is perfect for easy entertaining. I chose shrimp, clams, and mussels for this seafood version of paella, and Spanish dry-cured chorizo for its smoky, meaty flavor. Chorizo can be a controversial add-in and not all Spanish cooks agree that it belongs in paella, so skip it if you like.
Seafood Paella is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Seafood Paella is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have seafood paella using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
- Get 2 cups chicken stock or 1 stock cube with 2 cups of boiling water
- Take 2 cups dry white wine
- Take 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- Get 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, crumbled
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper
- Take 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Prepare 1 onion, finely chopped
- Make ready 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Prepare 2 chorizo sausages, sliced into thin half-moons
- Make ready 3 cups Italian Arborio rice
- Get 1 tin diced tomatoes
- Take 2 tomatoes, quartered
- Prepare 1 cup Edamame beans (or peas)
- Get 450 g prawn tails, cleaned (I deep fried the heads for fun)
- Prepare 400 g half mussels
- Get 400 g calamari steak cut in strips
- Get 1 cup chopped parsley, for garnish
- Get 2 lemons quartered, for garnish
- Prepare 4 chilies chopped, for garnish
This is the pan of rice that the world fell in love with. Apart from beautifully fresh fish, shrimp, squid, mussels, and clams, the real treasure of seafood paella is the rice. If you've ever been intimated by making paella, this tutorial is all you need to get going! This saffron-infused easy seafood paella with shrimp and lobster is a simpler take on the traditional beloved Spanish dish with fewer ingredients and no special pan.
Instructions to make Seafood Paella:
- Prep all ingredients before your guests arrive. Assemble them next to the braai until you are ready.
- In a jug, mix together the wine and stock. Add the saffron and salt. Let the flavours marry for as long as possible.
- When the braai is ready, place a big paella pan on the grid. Heat the olive oil in that pan. Add the onion and red pepper and cook it until the onion is translucent. Stir in the garlic and chorizo and cook until fragrant.
- Add the rice. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes until the rice is toasted and coated in the oil, onion and pepper mix.
- Stir in the stock, tomatoes, peas and paprika. Taste for seasoning and add more salt, if necessary.
- Spread the rice evenly over the bottom of the pan. Cover the pan with foil and simmer the rice without stirring for 15 minutes, or until the rice absorbs most of the liquid. It's important not to stir the rice, even though you may want to. You want to create a crust at the bottom. If it starts to look too dry, add some water/wine, but not too much and DON'T stir.
- Add the seafood, nestle it nicely into the rice. Cover with foil and let the seafood and rice cook. This should take about 10 minutes.
- Remove the foil, check that the liquid is absorbed, that everything is cooked and adjust the seasoning, if necessary.
- Finally, check to see if the elusive 'socarrat' was created. This is the golden brown crust at the bottom of the pan. If you can, wait to see if you can create the crust, if not - better luck next time…
- Sprinkle with parsley and bring the whole pan to the table. Serve with lemons, chilli, more parsley and a lot more wine.
- Thanks simplyrecipes.com for the inspo
If you've ever been intimated by making paella, this tutorial is all you need to get going! This saffron-infused easy seafood paella with shrimp and lobster is a simpler take on the traditional beloved Spanish dish with fewer ingredients and no special pan. It will deliver the WOW factor on all level, but you don't need to wait for a special occasion to make it! Commonly though a seafood paella will include a combination of shrimp, clams, mussels and often squid. Some will also add a few pieces of firm-fleshed fish to the mix.
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