Simple Way to Prepare Perfect Paella - Valencia Style
by Ella McCoy
Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, paella - valencia style. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
Make ready 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
Get 2 lbs chicken cubed
Prepare 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
Prepare 2 red peppers, julienned
Take 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
Prepare 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
Make ready 5 g Spanish saffron
Take to taste Salt
Make ready 2 litres chicken broth
Get 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
Get 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
Get Tools
Get Use cast iron or steel pan
Make ready Wooden spoon to stir
Make ready Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
Take Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
Get Bowls
Get Cutting board
Make ready Ingredients for 8 people
Prepare 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
Take 1 lb chicken cubed
Get 1 lb prawns
Prepare 1 lb clams or mussels
Prepare 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
Get 1.5 cups rice
Take 1 sprig rosemary
Get 2.5 grams saffron
Take to taste Salt
Take 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
Make ready 1 bulb garlic
Get 3/4 cup olive oil
Steps 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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