Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood and chicken paella. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Seafood and Chicken Paella is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Seafood and Chicken Paella is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
This seafood paella recipe is really special. It's not quite a traditional paella recipe, but it's packed with good stuff - chicken thighs, garlic, saffron, king prawns, mussels and lots of lovely lemon. With chicken, chorizo, mussels & prawns. This Chicken and Seafood Paella is a classic Spanish rice dish made with Arborio rice, packed with chicken, sausage, mussels, clams, shrimp and loaded with flavor.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have seafood and chicken paella using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood and Chicken Paella:
- Prepare 28 grams butter
- Prepare 3 tbsp olive oil
- Get 4 chicken breasts cut into bite size pieces
- Take 200 grams chorizo cut into thin slices
- Take 1/4 tsp saffron strands
- Get 1 large onion finely chopped
- Make ready 6 clove garlic peeled and finely chopped
- Prepare 1 green pepper diced
- Prepare 1 red pepper diced
- Get 3/4 cup paella rice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp thyme leaf
- Prepare 946 ml chicken stock
- Make ready 1 cup dry white wine
- Get 4 large tomatoes de-seeded and diced
- Prepare 1 tsp chilli flakes or 1 chilli finely chopped
- Take 1/2 tsp paprika
- Get 1 cup peas
- Take 6 large king prawns
- Get 350 grams prawns
- Make ready 300 grams squid cut into bite sized pieces
- Prepare 1/2 kg mussels
No overcooked seafood, and no mushy rice around here! Substitute with turkey, lamb, beef or rabbit (very Spanish!), or even leave out proteins and make it a. Paella is probably Spain's most famous dish. Originating in Valencia, this dish of rice with seafood and chicken or rabbit is completely addictive.
Instructions to make Seafood and Chicken Paella:
- Heat half the olive oil and butter in a large flat bottom pan over medium heat. Get another pan ready for your seafood for later, and a pan with a tight fitting lid for your mussels for later.
- Fry chicken breasts for a couple of minutes to seal the meat and then remove from pan and set aside.
- Fry chorizo until slightly crisp. Get your hot chicken stock ready and add saffron to the stock.
- Add onions and 5 cloves of garlic and fry until soft.
- Add thyme, chilli flakes and rice. Stir until rice is coated with oil. Turn down heat if rice starts to stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Add paprika and 3/4 cup of wine. The rest of the wine you will use for the mussels later.
- When wine starts to bubble add the part cooked chicken and about 1 and 1/2 pints of chicken stock. Add tomatoes, peppers and peas. Turn down heat and cook for about 10 minutes. Don't take your eye of the pan because this rice is like a sponge. If it sticks or feels to thick add a little more stock. If is to thin it will reduce down so don't panic.
- Now is the time to put the cat out. Heat rest of oil and garlic and butter in your other pan. Fry king prawns over a medium heat for about 1 minute each side. Add to paella. Try to keep some oil you have a little more to do.
- Put mussels into remaining pan with the rest of the wine and cook over a moderate to high heat for about 5 minutes. Keep lid on pan as the steam will cook the mussels. Give the pan a shake every minute or so. when mussels are open remove from heat but leave in pan. Discard any mussels that are not open.
- While the mussels are cooking fry prawns for about 1 minute. Add to paella.
- Now add squid to pan for no more than 1 minute and add to paella.
- Add mussels to paella. Mix them in or decoarate the pan with them (see photo).
- Lemon and parsley to garnish. Let the cat in and enjoy.
Paella is probably Spain's most famous dish. Originating in Valencia, this dish of rice with seafood and chicken or rabbit is completely addictive. However, if you order paella in Madrid, this is what you'll get - Paella Mixta. It's a little bit tricky to get right, but follow the instructions in this video recipe and. Swap traditional seafood paella for an easy chicken and chorizo version - a hearty family supper for four.
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