Seafood paella
A paella like they do in Spain, are you tempted?! To help you make it, we offer you an infallible recipe explained step by step. With it, you'll realize that paella is much easier to make than you imagine ;-) A super friendly dish that you will enjoy with your loved ones on any occasion. However, a small note: if you want to prepare a beautiful paella in the Spanish tradition, you cannot mix meat and fish! It must be either one or the other. No more mixing crustaceans and chorizo ;-)
Ingredients
4
Materials
- 34 cm paella dish
- Kitchen cloth
Preparation
Preparation45 min
Cook time1 hour
The shrimp broth:
Shell the shrimp and 3 prawns. Take the shells and the heads, and sauté them in olive oil in a large pot for 5 minutes.
Add 4 cups of water, bring to a boil, cover, and let cook for 20 minutes. Remove from heat, and crush the heads in the broth with a pestle. Then, strain to keep only the liquid. Set aside.
Mussels:
Clean and debeard the mussels, and place them in a pot. Add a little water, cover, and cook for 15 minutes. After this time, the mussels should have opened. Remove each mussel from its shell, reserving 6 for decoration. Set aside.
In the paella dish, heat some olive oil. Sauté the roughly chopped peppers.
While the peppers are cooking, crush the garlic cloves, and add the chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and saffron. Mix well.
Add this mixture to the peppers once they start to cook well. Peel the tomatoes, blend them into a purée, and add them as well. Let cook for 5 minutes.
Clean the squids to keep only the edible flesh, and cut them into rings. Add them to the pan, along with the cleaned clams still in their shells.
Let cook for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. The clams should all have opened.
Then, add the rice, along with the shrimp and the prawns (the ones whose shells were used for the broth). Mix well.
Spread the mixture evenly in the paella dish, and cover with the broth. Add the food coloring and mix. Place the remaining prawns and the mussels you set aside on top of the paella. Once the broth is boiling, reduce the heat to medium/low, and let cook for 20 minutes. After these 20 minutes, turn off the heat, and cover the paella with a cloth. Let rest for 5 minutes.
And there you have it, your seafood paella is ready; all that's left is to decorate it with half a lemon!
Observations
Broth: For quicker preparation, you can use pre-made broth.
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