Seafood Paella
Seafood Paella

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Seafood Paella is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Seafood Paella is something which I have loved my entire life.

Hand-picked farms, responsible processes, high standards. Aquascot stands for exceptional Scottish seafood Get inspired by our latest recipes. To make the stock, heat the oil in a large pan over a medium-high heat and add the onion, tomatoes, garlic, and reserved prawn shells and heads. Stir in the paella rice; season well.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood paella using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
  1. Prepare 2 cups chicken stock or 1 stock cube with 2 cups of boiling water
  2. Take 2 cups dry white wine
  3. Take 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
  4. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, crumbled
  5. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper
  6. Get 3 tablespoons olive oil
  7. Get 1 onion, finely chopped
  8. Take 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
  9. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  10. Make ready 2 chorizo sausages, sliced into thin half-moons
  11. Get 3 cups Italian Arborio rice
  12. Prepare 1 tin diced tomatoes
  13. Take 2 tomatoes, quartered
  14. Get 1 cup Edamame beans (or peas)
  15. Prepare 450 g prawn tails, cleaned (I deep fried the heads for fun)
  16. Prepare 400 g half mussels
  17. Prepare 400 g calamari steak cut in strips
  18. Take 1 cup chopped parsley, for garnish
  19. Make ready 2 lemons quartered, for garnish
  20. Prepare 4 chilies chopped, for garnish

Apart from beautifully fresh fish, shrimp, squid, mussels, and clams, the real treasure of seafood paella is the rice. Put the saffron threads in a large, wide, heavy-based pan over a moderate heat and stir constantly until they just begin to give off their aroma. Add the stock and bring to the boil. Remove the pan from the heat, cover and set aside to infuse.

Steps to make Seafood Paella:
  1. Prep all ingredients before your guests arrive. Assemble them next to the braai until you are ready.
  2. In a jug, mix together the wine and stock. Add the saffron and salt. Let the flavours marry for as long as possible.
  3. When the braai is ready, place a big paella pan on the grid. Heat the olive oil in that pan. Add the onion and red pepper and cook it until the onion is translucent. Stir in the garlic and chorizo and cook until fragrant.
  4. Add the rice. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes until the rice is toasted and coated in the oil, onion and pepper mix.
  5. Stir in the stock, tomatoes, peas and paprika. Taste for seasoning and add more salt, if necessary.
  6. Spread the rice evenly over the bottom of the pan. Cover the pan with foil and simmer the rice without stirring for 15 minutes, or until the rice absorbs most of the liquid. It's important not to stir the rice, even though you may want to. You want to create a crust at the bottom. If it starts to look too dry, add some water/wine, but not too much and DON'T stir.
  7. Add the seafood, nestle it nicely into the rice. Cover with foil and let the seafood and rice cook. This should take about 10 minutes.
  8. Remove the foil, check that the liquid is absorbed, that everything is cooked and adjust the seasoning, if necessary.
  9. Finally, check to see if the elusive 'socarrat' was created. This is the golden brown crust at the bottom of the pan. If you can, wait to see if you can create the crust, if not - better luck next time…
  10. Sprinkle with parsley and bring the whole pan to the table. Serve with lemons, chilli, more parsley and a lot more wine.
  11. Thanks simplyrecipes.com for the inspo

Add the stock and bring to the boil. Remove the pan from the heat, cover and set aside to infuse. To prepare the squid, pull the head, tentacles and insides from the bodies. This saffron-infused easy seafood paella with shrimp and lobster is a simpler take on the traditional beloved Spanish dish with fewer ingredients and no special pan. It will deliver the WOW factor on all level, but you don't need to wait for a special occasion to make it!

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