Paella recipe

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  • Cuisine: Spanish

Carlos Lopez shares his delicious paella recipe with Food Safari's Maeve O'Meara. Traditionally paella is made on a Sunday and because women needed a day off from cooking, it is usually made by the men.

You might also like Frank Camorra’s paella recipe from Taste le Tour. Also, view our collection of Spanish recipes.

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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Comments (36)

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01 Feb 2012 09:38 AEST
susan
stanmore
Love it
Have made it about 6 times now and everyone loves it......Got a standing ovation last time. Love Spanish food.......It's my favourite. Have to travel around spain and just eat,eat eat....... what could be better..
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22 Jan 2012 09:24 AEST
sue
kogarah
Loving this dish!
Ive been making this dish at least once every 2 weeks because my whole family loves it!!
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07 Jan 2012 04:01 AEST
mafille
sorento
the paela
looks like risotto. and i dont like risotto, the rice is too soggy. 1 star for looks before dishing out
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04 Jun 2011 03:05 AEST
Lara
University Park
hungry
That looks simply delicious and I am certainly hungry.custom QR codes
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17 May 2011 11:03 AEST
Leah
Como
Rice
As of today, Scutti in South Perth no longer has the rice...
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22 Apr 2011 04:30 AEST
James
Double Bay
QUE VIVA ESPANIA!
Looks great, Spanish food is my favourite from the south to the north the diversity and the flavours are fantastic.
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08 Feb 2011 08:35 AEST
Dean
Perth
Is it Paella?
I am amazed at (apparently) Spanish people claiming that this recipe is not paella. I have had paella all over Spain, from the tourist dishes in Valencia (which is not where paella originates), chain restaurants in Salamanca, fancy restaurants in Barcelona and home-cooking in Baena. It can be regionally different, good or indifferent. This basic paella recipe will be improved with technique.Just don't call it risotto! The only similarity between paella and risotto is they both use rice and stock
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30 Dec 2010 10:57 AEST
Chris
Five Dock
Missing Ingredient
The ingredient list is missing 1 x Blue Swimmer Crab (and also the paprika is Spanish Smoked paprika, I have the book). I am making the Gazpacho Andaluz and the Paella for NYE this year.
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