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- Cuisine: Spanish
Traditionally paella is made on a Sunday and because women needed a day off from cooking, it is usually made by the men.
Ingredients
3 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 red capsicum, chopped
1 large tomato, peeled and chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
300g chicken breast fillet, diced
200g calamari, diced
300g Spanish Calasparra rice (allow about 80g per person)
750ml fish stock
10 strings of saffron
2 tsp Spanish paprika
4 large green prawns
8 fresh mussels
12 fresh pippies
200g peas
100g roast capsicum
1/3 cup chopped parsley
Preparation
Heat oil in the paella pan over medium heat. Add onion, capsicum, tomato, garlic, chicken and calamari. Add rice and stir for 1 minute. Stir in stock, saffron and paprika.
When the stock is boiling and rice grains begin to swell, add crab and prawns. Cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes until the stock has reduced and the rice has begun to swell. Push the mussels and pippies into the rice and cook until the shells open. Finally add the peas, strips of capsicum and parsley and leave it for five more minutes on low heat.
Note:
- Grind the saffron thread with some salt in a mortar and pestle until it is like a fine powder. It will help to distribute it through the paella evenly giving a better colour and flavour to the finished dish.
- The perfect time to add the seafood to paella is when enough of the stock has been absorbed to allow the rice to be seen.
- Do not stir the paella during main cooking.
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