Seafood Paella
Seafood Paella

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Seafood Paella is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Seafood Paella is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Heat the oil in a large paella pan or an extra-large frying pan. Seafood Paella is the most popular of the Paellas. Its large quantity of mollusks and crustaceans make it very tasty and full of color.

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

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
  1. Take chicken stock or 1 stock cube with 2 cups of boiling water
  2. Take dry white wine
  3. Make ready smoked paprika
  4. Get saffron threads, crumbled
  5. Prepare each salt and pepper
  6. Prepare olive oil
  7. Prepare onion, finely chopped
  8. Take red bell pepper, finely chopped
  9. Get garlic, finely chopped
  10. Take chorizo sausages, sliced into thin half-moons
  11. Get Italian Arborio rice
  12. Prepare diced tomatoes
  13. Get tomatoes, quartered
  14. Prepare Edamame beans (or peas)
  15. Take prawn tails, cleaned (I deep fried the heads for fun)
  16. Prepare half mussels
  17. Get calamari steak cut in strips
  18. Take chopped parsley, for garnish
  19. Make ready lemons quartered, for garnish
  20. Get chilies chopped, for garnish

Read the Seafood Paella recipe, the iconic Spanish dish. Seafood paellas should be made with a variety of fish and shellfish, each adding its own flavor and texture. Always include jumbo shrimp, mussels or clams, and a firm white fish such as monkfish. This seafood paella recipe requires organization and slicing and dicing in advance.

Steps 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

But once the paella gets going, the process is pretty seamless—and the rewards are huge. This seafood paella recipe with pork and chicken is Spanish surf and turf that's easy to make. Paella originates in Valencia, a region on the Mediterranean coast of Spain that is between Barcelona and. Seafood Paella made with Calasparra rice, tiger shrimp, squid, littleneck clams, and mussels with garlic and parsley paste and saffron. This delicious seafood paella was prepared by my wife, Dey.

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