| Course | Main Dish |
|---|---|
| Cuisines | Spanish |
| Cooking Methods | Sautéing, Simmering |
| Diets | |
| Main categories | Ethnic Authentic, Everyday Food |
| Main Ingredient | Grains, Pork, Poultry, Seafood |
| Recipe Author | Syd Bailey |
| Special Occasions | Other Occasion |
Seafood, Chicken and Chorizo Paella
Serves: 10 people
Traditional Spanish saffron rice dish with seafood, chicken and chorizo
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Paella
- 3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 12 ounce boneless skinless chicken breast
- 8 ounce chorizo Bilbao is best but all spanish chorizo will work, casing discarded and sausage cut into 1/4 inch dice
- 8 ounce shrimp peeled and deveined. 12 jumbo shrimps 21/25 or larger
- 1 red bell pepper sliced
- 1 tomato seeded and chopped
- 2 teaspoon smoked paprika spanish preferred
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 16 ounce short grain white rice Short grain. Arborio, Calaspara or Bomba
- ½ cup green peas fresh preferred, frozen ok
- 1 pound mussels cleaned and debearded
- 1 lemon sliced, for garnish
Broth
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 sprig fresh thyme fresh
- 2 clove garlic minced
- 1 pinch saffron
- 5 cup chicken broth
- 8 ounce clam juice
- ½ cup white wine
Instructions
Broth
- Heat olive oil in a large stock pot over medium heat. When hot add garlic, thyme and saffron, stirring frequently so garlic does not brown.
- When garlic is soft and golden (about 2 minutes), and the oil starts to turn yellow. add the clam juice, wine and broth. Move pot to a back burner set to simmer. Start Paella.
Paella
- Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a paellera set over medium-high heat. Add chicken and chorizo. Cook for 5 to 8 minutes until chicken is mostly cooked through. Set aside on a Large plate.
- Add another tablespoon of oil to the pan, then add shrimp and bell peppers. Saute for 4-5 minutes and when cooked through reserve to the large plate.
- Add the last tablespoon of oil to the pan. Add the tomatoes and paprika, cooking for 3-4 minutes, until tomatoes start to break down.
- Add rice. Ladle in just enough broth to reach top of rice. Stir. From this point on DO NOT STIR!! Simmer and as rice absorbs the stock, continue adding just enough stock to cover rice. Cook rice to al dente. about 15 minutes.
- Add chicken, chorizo , shrimp and peppers to the pan along with the mussels and peas. Cover with foil and cook until mussels open. about 5-7 minutes.
- Remove foil and turn heat to medium high. Cook just until you start to smell rice starting to almost burn. You want rice to have a nice dark crust but not a black bottom.
Notes
A paellera makes all the difference. It produces the socarat, or crunchy bottom part of the rice that is one of the best parts of paella.
Reheating/Serving Instructions
reheat in microwave over medium low setting for 4 minutes
Nutrition
Calories: 400kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 100mg | Sodium: 1068mg | Potassium: 464mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 890IU | Vitamin C: 36mg | Calcium: 57mg | Iron: 5mg
Seafood, Chicken and Chorizo Paella
$55.00 cooking fee
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