Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken and chorizo paella. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Swap traditional seafood paella for an easy chicken and chorizo version - a hearty family supper for four. Chorizo and chicken paella made in a cast iron skillet, bursting with flavor, perfect for feeding the family or crowd. This chicken and chorizo paella is a hearty sharing dish that's easy to cook and serve in one dish.
Chicken and Chorizo Paella is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken and Chorizo Paella is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken and chorizo paella using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Chorizo Paella:
- Make ready 2 clove garlic
- Get 1 large onion
- Make ready 1 large carrot
- Get 15 grams flat leaf parsley
- Prepare 70 grams chorizo
- Make ready 2 skinless, boneless chicken thighs
- Take 1 olive oil, extra virgin
- Take 1 tbsp paprika
- Get 1 dozen threads of saffron
- Get 1 red capsicum
- Take 1 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 1 cube chicken stock
- Prepare 300 grams paella rice
- Prepare 100 grams frozen peas
- Take 200 grams peeled prawns
- Get 1 lemon
- Prepare salt
- Take ground black pepper
A Chicken and Chorizo Paella might sound like a very ambitious project, but once you realize how easy and quick it is, you will be making it over and Tim and I had some friends over, who didn't have a clue that it was a wine holiday, but enjoyed being served Chicken and Chorizo Paella and tasting. This easy version of the traditional Spanish rice dish features both chicken and chorizo sausage mixed in with the rice, peas and tomato. This simple chicken chorizo paella may not be the way a purist in Spain might do it, and we're no strangers to making it the traditional way, in the special paella pan we schlepped over from Spain-lots of stirring, saffron, and anxiety-ridden hovering. If you really want to go the authentic route, you can.
Instructions to make Chicken and Chorizo Paella:
- Peel and finely slice garlic
- Roughly chop onion and carrot
- Finely chop parsley
- Roughly chop chicken and chorizo
- Deseed and chop capsicum
- In an oven-safe pan on medium heat, fry garlic, onion, carrot, chorizo, chicken and paprika in olive oil.
- Season with salt and pepper
- Add capsicum to pan for a short span
- Stir through tomato paste and stock cube. Stir through rice until it is coated with flavour
- Pour in 750ml of boiling water, and add saffron with a pinch of salt
- Cover and bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer for 15mins, stirring regularly from the outside to center
- Stir through prawns and peas, cover, and cook until hot all the way through.
- Add additional seasoning to taste, scatter parsley leaves and serve with lemon wedges.
Paella is a dish that I love after having tried it in Spain during my graduation trip (how I wish I can go back there!) But I have not tried making it because saffron is so expensive here! Place the chicken in the hot oil to brown the sides. Push the chicken aside and add in the chorizo. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Stir the chicken and chorizo into the rice; season.
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