Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Paella - Valencia Style
by Leo Flores
Paella - Valencia Style
Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, paella - valencia style. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Paella - Valencia Style is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
Prepare 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
Make ready 2 lbs chicken cubed
Prepare 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
Make ready 2 red peppers, julienned
Make ready 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
Prepare 1 cup chick peas or 1 540 g can, drained and washed
Take 3 cups rice (parboiled rice or a good Paella rice found in most gourmet shops)
Get 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Prepare 5 g Spanish saffron
Take to taste Salt
Take 2 litres chicken broth
Make ready 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
Get 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
Get 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
Get Tools
Take Use cast iron or steel pan
Get Wooden spoon to stir
Make ready Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
Make ready Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
Prepare Bowls
Prepare Cutting board
Prepare Ingredients for 8 people
Make ready 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
Prepare 1 lb chicken cubed
Take 1 lb prawns
Take 1 lb clams or mussels
Make ready 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
Prepare 1.5 cups rice
Take 1 sprig rosemary
Get 2.5 grams saffron
Get to taste Salt
Make ready 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
Take 1 bulb garlic
Prepare 3/4 cup olive oil
Instructions to make Paella - Valencia Style:
HINT If you have people sensitive to garlic before mincing garlic, take the heart out which is the green piece in the middle of the clove. Briefly sauté garlic and julienned peppers in 1/2 of the oil. For 5 minutes on medium heat. Add salt lightly, to taste. Remove peppers from pan and set aside. Leave garlic in pan.
Sauté the chorizo sausage and the cubed chicken on medium heat for about 5 minutes, remember you are adding fresh ingredients to the pan so salt lightly for taste. Next add the rice. Saffron add 1 tsp of salt and the remaining oil. Sauté the ingredients in the pan for about 5 minutes. Even out the remaining ingredients in the pan and place the two sprigs of rosemary in the pan. Now you do not stir again.
Add the warm chicken broth by using a ladle until the rice is covered in the pan. Do not dump the broth in as you want to keep the evenness of the rice on the bottom of the pan. Do not forget to add salt for taste. Scatter the chick peas evenly in the pan. Remember do not stir in. Let simmer for 20 minutes.
Add shrimp and seafood of choice along with peas and re add peppers, arrange the remaining ingredients so that no mixing is required. Ddistributing evenly in pan.
Cover with tinfoil and cook for approximately 10 minutes or until rice is cooked.
HINTS - You can freeze the left over Paella but not for a long period of time. You could place in the oven to heat up. You can also re-fry the left over Paella in pan by adding some oil.
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