Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, paella - valencia style. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Paella - Valencia Style is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Valencia is a Spanish coastal city where this dish is particularly revered. This paella features seafood, sausage and chicken but don't forget the saffron – it is the essential spice of the dish. Today here we bring you the original paella recipe. As you may know, this dish was created in Valencia, Spain and there are many different types.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
Prepare 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
Take 2 lbs chicken cubed
Make ready 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
Take 2 red peppers, julienned
Prepare 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
Prepare 1 cup chick peas or 1 540 g can, drained and washed
Get 3 cups rice (parboiled rice or a good Paella rice found in most gourmet shops)
Prepare 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Prepare 5 g Spanish saffron
Make ready to taste Salt
Get 2 litres chicken broth
Take 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
Make ready 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
Make ready Tools
Make ready Use cast iron or steel pan
Get Wooden spoon to stir
Prepare Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
Take Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
Make ready Bowls
Get Cutting board
Prepare Ingredients for 8 people
Get 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
Make ready 1 lb chicken cubed
Take 1 lb prawns
Make ready 1 lb clams or mussels
Take 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
Take 1.5 cups rice
Make ready 1 sprig rosemary
Take 2.5 grams saffron
Take to taste Salt
Prepare 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
Prepare 1 bulb garlic
Get 3/4 cup olive oil
The real Paella Valenciana doesn't have green peas, but you can add, when its the season, artichoke in quarters. Someone told you to add a bit of lemon juice over it before eating the paella. The Paella Valenciana recipe is considered the authentic paella recipe. In fact, the Paella Valenciana recipe has a truly protected status.
Steps 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.
The Paella Valenciana recipe is considered the authentic paella recipe. In fact, the Paella Valenciana recipe has a truly protected status. Learn to make paella the traditional way with Paella Valenciana, Valencia's signature rice dish with rabbit, chicken and snails. Paella Valenciana: A Traditional Valencian Paella. Paella Valenciana is one of the most acclaimed, popular, and well-known recipes of Spanish gastronomy.
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