Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, paella - valencia style. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Paella - Valencia Style is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
- Prepare 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
- Make ready 2 lbs chicken cubed
- Make ready 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
- Prepare 2 red peppers, julienned
- Get 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
- Make ready 1 cup chick peas or 1 540 g can, drained and washed
- Take 3 cups rice (parboiled rice or a good Paella rice found in most gourmet shops)
- Make ready 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- Prepare 5 g Spanish saffron
- Get to taste Salt
- Get 2 litres chicken broth
- Get 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
- Get 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
- Take Use cast iron or steel pan
- Take Wooden spoon to stir
- Take Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
- Prepare Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
- Take Bowls
- Take Cutting board
- Make ready Ingredients for 8 people
- Prepare 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
- Make ready 1 lb chicken cubed
- Take 1 lb prawns
- Prepare 1 lb clams or mussels
- Prepare 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
- Take 1.5 cups rice
- Make ready 1 sprig rosemary
- Get 2.5 grams saffron
- Take to taste Salt
- Prepare 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
- Take 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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