Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, classic paella. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Classic Paella is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Classic Paella is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Paella comes from the countryside around Valencia, where it began as a humble dish for workers in the orchards and vegetable fields. They simmered what ingredients they could find—tomatoes, beans. A Valencian peasant dish, paella was traditionally made with ingredients such as rabbit, chicken and snails.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have classic paella using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Paella:
- Make ready 300 g chicken breast or thighes
- Prepare 150 g mussels out of the shell
- Make ready 300 g spanish paella rice
- Make ready 200 g fresh prawns
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic
- Take 1 celery stick
- Prepare 1 large red onion
- Get 1 red pepper
- Make ready 1 corguette
- Prepare 1 carrot
- Take 80 g frozen peas
- Get Good pinch of saffron
- Make ready Tin chopped tomatoes
- Take 600 ml chicken stock
- Get 15 g parsley
- Take 3 teaspoons smoked paprika
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- Get Olive oil
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 teaspoon pepper
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Instructions to make Classic Paella:
- Put the saffron into the chicken stock and allow it to steep for a while
- Dice the chicken and seal the pieces in a large frying pan with some olive oil for about 5 minutes. Remove from the pan
- Chop onion, carrot, celery and red pepper and fry in olive oil for 5 minutes until soft
- Add the chopped garlic and fry for another minute
- Add in the smoked paprika, corguette and oregano and stir well
- Pour in the rice and stir until it's all coated
- Pour over the saffron chicken stock and add the diced chicken pieces back to the pan. Add the tomatoes, season and stir well.
- Cook for 15 minutes stirring occasionally. If the rice dries out too much add some more water
- Add in the mussels, prawns, 3/4 of the chopped parsley and peas. Cook for a further 5-10 minutes until the seafood is cooked through
- Serve with the remaining parsley over the top
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