Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken and chorizo paella. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Swap traditional seafood paella for an easy chicken and chorizo version - a hearty family supper for four. This chicken and chorizo paella is a hearty sharing dish that's easy to cook and serve in one dish. Heat the oil in a large, lidded, heatproof pan or paella pan.
Chicken and Chorizo Paella is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken and Chorizo Paella is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken and chorizo paella using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Chorizo Paella:
- Prepare 2 clove garlic
- Take 1 large onion
- Get 1 large carrot
- Take 15 grams flat leaf parsley
- Get 70 grams chorizo
- Make ready 2 skinless, boneless chicken thighs
- Make ready 1 olive oil, extra virgin
- Take 1 tbsp paprika
- Take 1 dozen threads of saffron
- Make ready 1 red capsicum
- Take 1 tbsp tomato paste
- Make ready 1 cube chicken stock
- Prepare 300 grams paella rice
- Prepare 100 grams frozen peas
- Prepare 200 grams peeled prawns
- Get 1 lemon
- Get salt
- Prepare ground black pepper
This easy version of the traditional Spanish rice dish features both chicken and chorizo sausage mixed in with the rice, peas and tomato. A Chicken and Chorizo Paella might sound like a very ambitious project, but once you realize how easy and quick it is, you will be making it over and Tim and I had some friends over, who didn't have a clue that it was a wine holiday, but enjoyed being served Chicken and Chorizo Paella and tasting. This great seafood and chicken paella recipe can stand on its own, or you can serve it alongside some steamed clams. Heat oil in a large paella pan over medium heat.
Instructions to make Chicken and Chorizo Paella:
- Peel and finely slice garlic
- Roughly chop onion and carrot
- Finely chop parsley
- Roughly chop chicken and chorizo
- Deseed and chop capsicum
- In an oven-safe pan on medium heat, fry garlic, onion, carrot, chorizo, chicken and paprika in olive oil.
- Season with salt and pepper
- Add capsicum to pan for a short span
- Stir through tomato paste and stock cube. Stir through rice until it is coated with flavour
- Pour in 750ml of boiling water, and add saffron with a pinch of salt
- Cover and bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer for 15mins, stirring regularly from the outside to center
- Stir through prawns and peas, cover, and cook until hot all the way through.
- Add additional seasoning to taste, scatter parsley leaves and serve with lemon wedges.
Move cooked chorizo to the outside of the pan. Paella is a dish that I love after having tried it in Spain during my graduation trip (how I wish I can go back there!) But I have not tried making it because saffron is so expensive here! Place the chicken in the hot oil to brown the sides. Push the chicken aside and add in the chorizo. This simple chicken chorizo paella may not be the way a purist in Spain might do it, and we're no strangers to making it the traditional way, in the special paella pan we schlepped over from Spain-lots of stirring, saffron, and anxiety-ridden hovering.
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