Seafood Paella
Seafood Paella

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, seafood paella. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really 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 foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Seafood Paella is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have seafood paella using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
  1. Get 2 cups uncooked short grain rice
  2. Take 4 cups chicken broth
  3. Get 1 yellow onion (diced)
  4. Prepare 2 cloves garlic (minced)
  5. Get 200 g chorizo
  6. Take 1/2 canned diced tomato
  7. Prepare Saffron/turmeric powder
  8. Make ready Paprika powder
  9. Get Salt
  10. Prepare Pepper
  11. Prepare Parsley/spring onion
  12. Get Olive oil
  13. Take SEAFOOD :
  14. Take Prawn (shelled and devained)
  15. Get Mussel (clean and soaked)
  16. Prepare Clam (clean and soaked)

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.

Steps to make Seafood Paella:
  1. Heat 2 tbsp olive oil.
  2. Add onion, garlic and chorizo. Until the onion translucent and chorizo release it's flavor.
  3. Add rice and paprika powder and stir well for 1 minute.
  4. Add tomato, chicken broth, and Saffron/turmeric. Bring to boil and simmer with medium heat (close the lid) until the rice is cooked (around 20 minutes).
  5. Arrange your seafood on the rice. Make sure you tuck the mussel and clam in the rice. close the lid again and cook until the seafood is fully cooked (around 10 minutes).
  6. Season with salt and pepper. Turn the heat to high and stir well.
  7. Sprinkle with parsley/spring onion. Ready to serve.

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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