Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, paella - valencia style. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Paella - Valencia Style is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
- Take 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
- Take 2 lbs chicken cubed
- Make ready 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
- Make ready 2 red peppers, julienned
- Take 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
- Make ready 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)
- Prepare 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- Get 5 g Spanish saffron
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 2 litres chicken broth
- Get 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
- Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
- Make ready 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
- Get Tools
- Make ready Use cast iron or steel pan
- Make ready Wooden spoon to stir
- Get Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
- Prepare Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
- Make ready Bowls
- Make ready Cutting board
- Get Ingredients for 8 people
- Make ready 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
- Make ready 1 lb chicken cubed
- Get 1 lb prawns
- Prepare 1 lb clams or mussels
- Make ready 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
- Take 1.5 cups rice
- Take 1 sprig rosemary
- Get 2.5 grams saffron
- Take to taste Salt
- Take 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
- Prepare 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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