Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, seafood paella. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Seafood Paella is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Seafood Paella is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Heat the oil in a large paella pan or an extra-large frying pan. This awesome seafood paella is incredibly easy to prepare. With flavors of citrus and sherry, if you want just skip the seafood and eat the rice!
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood paella using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
- Get 2 cups Arborio or uncooked white rice
- Take 1 onion chopped finely
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic, grated
- Get 1 packet seafood mix
- Take 500 g prawns
- Make ready 500 g black mussels
- Get 2 tsp smoked paprika
- Prepare 1 tsp crushed chillies
- Get 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- Take 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- Make ready 1 tbsp butter
- Get 3 cups vegetable stock
- Get 1/2 cup steamed green peas
- Get 1 pinch saffron threads
- Take 1 lemon cut into wedges
- Take 1 tsp sea salt or to taste
- Take 5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
For this reason, many non-Spaniards view it as Spain's national dish. This seafood-lover's version of paella from Food & Wine 's Kay Chun has four different types of shellfish, as well as plenty of meaty bites of chorizo. Seafood Paella made with Calasparra rice, tiger shrimp, squid, littleneck clams, and mussels with garlic and parsley paste and saffron. This delicious seafood paella was prepared by my wife, Dey.
Steps to make Seafood Paella:
- Rinse and devein prawns, then transfer to a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt. Set aside.
- Add vegetable stock to a saucepan and season to your taste with sea salt. Add saffron threads, cover with a lid and allow it to steep while you start the paella.
- In a large deep skillet heat up 3 tbsp of olive oil and add the diced onion with a pinch of salt, some smoked paprika, ground coriander, crushed chillies and sauté until translucent. Add the garlic and give it a stir.
- Stir in the rice making sure it coats nicely in the olive oil. Stir in the stock and bring to a boil. Cover with a lid, turn stove to low heat and cook for 20-25 minutes. Once the rice is almost cooked through allow to sit covered for 5 minutes.
- In a different pan heat up butter and garlic and add the prawns and give it a nice toss in the garlic butter, cook for 5-6 minutes and set aside in a bowl.
- In the same pan add the seafood mix. Add a pinch of salt and paprika and cover with a lid and allow to cook for about 10 - 15 minutes once it's cooked through, transfer on top of the paella and mix through with the rice.
- Steam mussels in a pot for 4 - 5 minutes until they open and release the sea water then strain. Transfer them on top of the paella together with the prawns.
- Serve your paella sprinkled with the green peas and garnish lemon wedges and parsley (optional)
Seafood Paella is an easy, delicious and flavorful seafood recipe that you can make at home. With fresh shellfish, mussels, and other seafood, plus Italian sausage, this meal is packed with flavor! Seafood Paella - popular classic Spanish one-pan dish loaded with saffron-infused Arborio rice, chorizo, shrimp, mussels and boatloads of flavors. This seafood paella recipe requires organization and slicing and dicing in advance. But once the paella gets going, the process is pretty seamless—and the rewards are huge.
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