Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, easy chicken paella. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
I am by no means a paella expert. Here's what I did, I loved it, and I will be making it again and again. Swap traditional seafood paella for an easy chicken and chorizo version - a hearty family supper for four.
Easy Chicken Paella is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Easy Chicken Paella is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy chicken paella using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Chicken Paella:
- Get paella
- Make ready 1 pinch salt and pepper
- Make ready 1 olive oil
- Get 4 large boneless chicken breasts
- Take 1 plain flour ( for dusting )
- Make ready 500 grams paella rice (can use risotto rice)
- Prepare 6 slice pancetta (or smokey bacon)
- Make ready 100 grams chorizo
- Make ready 1 onion - finely chopped
- Prepare 4 garlic cloves chopped finely
- Take 2 liter hot chicken stock
- Get 1 tsp smoked paprika
- Take 2 large pinches of saffron
- Get 2 handfulls of fresh or frozen peas
- Prepare 10 king prawns (optional, can use any seafood)
It's easy to think of paella like just another rice pilaf or risotto. Originally, paella was made with a combination of chicken, rabbit, and snails. Stir in garlic, red pepper flakes, and rice. Cook, skin-side down, until the skin is browned and crisp (the.
Instructions to make Easy Chicken Paella:
- preheat oven to 190c or gas mark 5
- season chicken breasts, lightly dust with flour
- heat a large wok or paella pan with olive oil
- brown the chicken breats in the pan
- once all chicken breasts have been browned,place the chicken on a baking tray and place in the centre of the oven for 30 mins
- whilst chicken is cooking in the oven, fry the chorizo and panchetta in the wok or pan until brown and crispy.
- then add the garlic and onion, cook until soft
- in the meantime, infuse half the stock with the saffron.
- then add smoked paprika, the rice and the infused chicken stock to the pan. leave to cook for 20 mins on a medium heat. stir from time to time
- after 20 minutes the rice should be nearly cooked. add the rest of the stock, along with peas, prawns and any seafood you are adding.
- cook for a further 10 minutes.
- take the chicken out of the oven, cut in to large chunks.
- add the chicken to the pan and cook for another 5 minutes.
- check the rice is fully cooked before serving, enjoy!
An authentic-tasting chicken and chorizo paella recipe that conjures up memories of sunny days in Spain. Stir through the paella rice, then add the saffron and stock. Put a lug of oil into a large lidded shallow casserole or paella pan on a medium heat, add the garlic, onion, carrot, parsley stalks, chorizo. The pressure cooker makes paella quick and easy. This rice dish is studded with tender chicken and slices of spicy sausage for lots of flavor.
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