Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, paella - valencia style. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. Paella is found throughout the country, with some variations, but it is in the Levant, particularly in Valencia, that paella finds its most renowned interpretation.
Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Paella - Valencia Style is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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
- Prepare 2 lbs chicken cubed
- Get 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
- Take 2 red peppers, julienned
- Make ready 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
- Make ready 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
- Take 5 g Spanish saffron
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Prepare 2 litres chicken broth
- Make ready 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
- Prepare Use cast iron or steel pan
- Prepare Wooden spoon to stir
- Take Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
- Prepare Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
- Get Bowls
- Make ready Cutting board
- Take Ingredients for 8 people
- Get 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
- Prepare 1 lb chicken cubed
- Get 1 lb prawns
- Get 1 lb clams or mussels
- Prepare 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
- Make ready 1.5 cups rice
- Prepare 1 sprig rosemary
- Make ready 2.5 grams saffron
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
- Prepare 1 bulb garlic
- Take 3/4 cup olive oil
My family is from Valencia and preparing the paella is a tradition to us. This paella is pretty close to the original recipe we have been using for years and years. 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.
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.
While versions these days often use more common proteins, classic Valencia-style paella is made with. Paella is a Spanish rice dish originally from Valencia. Paella is one of the best-known dishes in Spanish cuisine. For this reason, many non-Spaniards view it as Spain's national dish. Find valencia paella stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection.
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