Seafood Paella
Seafood Paella

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Seafood Paella is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Seafood Paella is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have seafood paella using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
  1. Make ready 2 cups chicken stock or 1 stock cube with 2 cups of boiling water
  2. Make ready 2 cups dry white wine
  3. Prepare 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
  4. Get 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, crumbled
  5. Get 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper
  6. Take 3 tablespoons olive oil
  7. Prepare 1 onion, finely chopped
  8. Prepare 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
  9. Take 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  10. Take 2 chorizo sausages, sliced into thin half-moons
  11. Make ready 3 cups Italian Arborio rice
  12. Prepare 1 tin diced tomatoes
  13. Take 2 tomatoes, quartered
  14. Take 1 cup Edamame beans (or peas)
  15. Get 450 g prawn tails, cleaned (I deep fried the heads for fun)
  16. Take 400 g half mussels
  17. Prepare 400 g calamari steak cut in strips
  18. Make ready 1 cup chopped parsley, for garnish
  19. Make ready 2 lemons quartered, for garnish
  20. Take 4 chilies chopped, for garnish
Instructions to make Seafood Paella:
  1. Prep all ingredients before your guests arrive. Assemble them next to the braai until you are ready.
  2. In a jug, mix together the wine and stock. Add the saffron and salt. Let the flavours marry for as long as possible.
  3. 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.
  4. Add the rice. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes until the rice is toasted and coated in the oil, onion and pepper mix.
  5. Stir in the stock, tomatoes, peas and paprika. Taste for seasoning and add more salt, if necessary.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Remove the foil, check that the liquid is absorbed, that everything is cooked and adjust the seasoning, if necessary.
  9. 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…
  10. Sprinkle with parsley and bring the whole pan to the table. Serve with lemons, chilli, more parsley and a lot more wine.
  11. Thanks simplyrecipes.com for the inspo

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