Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Seafood Paella is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Seafood Paella is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
I chose shrimp, clams, and mussels for this seafood version of paella, and Spanish dry-cured chorizo for its smoky, meaty flavor. Chorizo can be a controversial add-in and not all Spanish cooks agree that it belongs in paella, so skip it if you like. Heat the olive oil in a large pan on stovetop.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood paella using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
- Get 250 g kingklip fillet
- Get 300 g calamari rings
- Take 300 g mussel meat
- Take 300 g king prawns
- Get 1 red onion - finely chopped
- Prepare 1 tin chopped tomato
- Get 50 ml tomato paste
- Take 5 cloves garlic finely minced
- Prepare 1 thumb size ginger - grated
- Take Pinch saffron
- Prepare 2 cups basmati rice
- Prepare 1 cup hot water
- Prepare 3 cups cold water
- Make ready 1 cup baby peas
- Prepare 1 red pepper - sliced
- Prepare To serve- parsley and lemon wedges
Arroz a la Marinera Valencia This is the dramatic seafood paella that looks stunning, with crustaceans and shellfish. You can vary the quantities of seafood and also use crab, crayfish, or lobster. Seafood paella became popular on the sunny beaches of Valencia and Barcelona. This is the pan of rice that the world fell in love with.
Steps to make Seafood Paella:
- Heat olive oil and fry kingklip in small batches for 3-4 minutes. Remove and set aside
- Fry calamari in same pan for 5 minutes and remove
- Fry onion, garlic and ginger until fragrant in 1 Tbls ghee
- Add tin of tomatoes and tomato paste and reduce for 10 minutes on medium heat
- Meanwhile add a pinch of saffron to 1 cup hot water and steep for 10minutes
- Add rice to tomatoes sauce and braise for 5 minutes uncovered
- Strain saffron and add infused water to tomatoes and rice mixture together with 3 cups cold water. Bring to the boil
- Return precooked fish and calamari to the pan
- Add mussel meat, peas and red pepper and simmer with lid closed until most of the liquid is absorbed
- Place prawns on top of rice and steam for 10 minutes until cooked
- Serve with parsley and lemon wedges
Apart from beautifully fresh fish, shrimp, squid, mussels, and clams, the real treasure of seafood paella is the rice. Some will also add a few pieces of firm-fleshed fish to the mix. For our seafood paella recipe we're using Barcelona's very own brand of seafood paella cooking base: Aneto. Seafood Paella is the most popular of the Paellas. Its large quantity of mollusks and crustaceans make it very tasty and full of color.
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