Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, paella - valencia style. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Paella - Valencia Style is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
- Get 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
- Take 2 lbs chicken cubed
- Make ready 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
- Take 2 red peppers, julienned
- Get 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
- Take 1 cup chick peas or 1 540 g can, drained and washed
- Make ready 3 cups rice (parboiled rice or a good Paella rice found in most gourmet shops)
- Make ready 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- Make ready 5 g Spanish saffron
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare 2 litres chicken broth
- Prepare 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
- Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
- Get 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
- Prepare Tools
- Make ready Use cast iron or steel pan
- Prepare Wooden spoon to stir
- Prepare Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
- Get Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
- Get Bowls
- Make ready Cutting board
- Prepare Ingredients for 8 people
- Make ready 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
- Make ready 1 lb chicken cubed
- Prepare 1 lb prawns
- Take 1 lb clams or mussels
- Prepare 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
- Make ready 1.5 cups rice
- Get 1 sprig rosemary
- Prepare 2.5 grams saffron
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
- Prepare 1 bulb garlic
- Make ready 3/4 cup olive oil
Instructions to make Paella - Valencia Style:
- HINT If you have people sensitive to garlic before mincing garlic, take the heart out which is the green piece in the middle of the clove. Briefly sauté garlic and julienned peppers in 1/2 of the oil. For 5 minutes on medium heat. Add salt lightly, to taste. Remove peppers from pan and set aside. Leave garlic in pan.
- Sauté the chorizo sausage and the cubed chicken on medium heat for about 5 minutes, remember you are adding fresh ingredients to the pan so salt lightly for taste. Next add the rice. Saffron add 1 tsp of salt and the remaining oil. Sauté the ingredients in the pan for about 5 minutes. Even out the remaining ingredients in the pan and place the two sprigs of rosemary in the pan. Now you do not stir again.
- Add the warm chicken broth by using a ladle until the rice is covered in the pan. Do not dump the broth in as you want to keep the evenness of the rice on the bottom of the pan. Do not forget to add salt for taste. Scatter the chick peas evenly in the pan. Remember do not stir in. Let simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add shrimp and seafood of choice along with peas and re add peppers, arrange the remaining ingredients so that no mixing is required. Ddistributing evenly in pan.
- Cover with tinfoil and cook for approximately 10 minutes or until rice is cooked.
- HINTS - You can freeze the left over Paella but not for a long period of time. You could place in the oven to heat up. You can also re-fry the left over Paella in pan by adding some oil.
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