How to Prepare Award-winning Paella - Valencia Style
by Mabel Little
Paella - Valencia Style
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
Get 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
Prepare 2 lbs chicken cubed
Make ready 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
Get 2 red peppers, julienned
Get 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
Get 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)
Take 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Prepare 5 g Spanish saffron
Prepare to taste Salt
Take 2 litres chicken broth
Prepare 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
Take 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
Take 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
Get Tools
Take Use cast iron or steel pan
Get Wooden spoon to stir
Make ready Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
Make ready Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
Take Bowls
Take Cutting board
Prepare Ingredients for 8 people
Prepare 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
Take 1 lb chicken cubed
Make ready 1 lb prawns
Take 1 lb clams or mussels
Get 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
Get 1.5 cups rice
Get 1 sprig rosemary
Take 2.5 grams saffron
Make ready to taste Salt
Get 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
Get 1 bulb garlic
Take 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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