Paella - Valencia Style
Paella - Valencia Style

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, paella - valencia style. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Paella - Valencia Style is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
  1. Take 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
  2. Make ready 2 lbs chicken cubed
  3. Prepare 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
  4. Get 2 red peppers, julienned
  5. Make ready 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
  6. Make ready 1 cup chick peas or 1 540 g can, drained and washed
  7. Get 3 cups rice (parboiled rice or a good Paella rice found in most gourmet shops)
  8. Take 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
  9. Prepare 5 g Spanish saffron
  10. Get to taste Salt
  11. Get 2 litres chicken broth
  12. Prepare 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
  13. Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
  14. Get 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
  15. Take Tools
  16. Prepare Use cast iron or steel pan
  17. Get Wooden spoon to stir
  18. Prepare Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
  19. Make ready Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
  20. Make ready Bowls
  21. Get Cutting board
  22. Make ready Ingredients for 8 people
  23. Prepare 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
  24. Take 1 lb chicken cubed
  25. Make ready 1 lb prawns
  26. Take 1 lb clams or mussels
  27. Prepare 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
  28. Get 1.5 cups rice
  29. Get 1 sprig rosemary
  30. Take 2.5 grams saffron
  31. Make ready to taste Salt
  32. Make ready 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
  33. Get 1 bulb garlic
  34. Take 3/4 cup olive oil
Steps to make Paella - Valencia Style:
  1. 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. (Oil should generously cover the pan) For 5 minutes on medium heat. Add salt lightly, to taste. Remove peppers from pan and set aside. Leave garlic in pan.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. Meat should peak out. 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.
  4. Add shrimp and bite size seafood of choice along with peas and re add peppers, arrange the remaining ingredients so that no mixing is required (arrange it) Distributing evenly in pan.
  5. Cover with tinfoil and cook for approximately 10 minutes or until rice is cooked.
  6. 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.
  7. You could buy the chorizo sausage from Cosco - kirklands and squeeze out of casing
  8. You can find a paella seasoning and if you live in Vancouver BC it’s at the Gourmet Warehouse
  9. Typical appetizer with this is melon or cantaloupe (bite size) wrapped in prosciutto
  10. Spanish saffron has a shelf life of two years

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