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Swap traditional seafood paella for an easy chicken and chorizo version - a hearty family supper for four. Find more dinner inspiration at BBC Good Food. This easy chicken paella recipe uses the delicious, mild, tasty and somehow addictive chicken meat as the only ingredient of animal origin and the essence of traditional Spanish paella.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy chicken paella using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Chicken Paella:
- Prepare paella
- Get 1 pinch salt and pepper
- Take 1 olive oil
- Take 4 large boneless chicken breasts
- Get 1 plain flour ( for dusting )
- Get 500 grams paella rice (can use risotto rice)
- Make ready 6 slice pancetta (or smokey bacon)
- Prepare 100 grams chorizo
- Get 1 onion - finely chopped
- Make ready 4 garlic cloves chopped finely
- Prepare 2 liter hot chicken stock
- Make ready 1 tsp smoked paprika
- Make ready 2 large pinches of saffron
- Prepare 2 handfulls of fresh or frozen peas
- Prepare 10 king prawns (optional, can use any seafood)
Originally, paella was made with a combination of chicken, rabbit, and snails. Put a lug of oil into a large lidded shallow casserole or paella pan on a medium heat, add the garlic, onion, carrot, parsley stalks, chorizo. Our Easy Chicken Paella recipe brings a satisfying favourite to the table. With the classic combination of chicken, sausage and shrimp, you'll be sure to please everyone at dinner!
Steps to make Easy Chicken Paella:
- preheat oven to 190c or gas mark 5
- season chicken breasts, lightly dust with flour
- heat a large wok or paella pan with olive oil
- brown the chicken breats in the pan
- once all chicken breasts have been browned,place the chicken on a baking tray and place in the centre of the oven for 30 mins
- whilst chicken is cooking in the oven, fry the chorizo and panchetta in the wok or pan until brown and crispy.
- then add the garlic and onion, cook until soft
- in the meantime, infuse half the stock with the saffron.
- then add smoked paprika, the rice and the infused chicken stock to the pan. leave to cook for 20 mins on a medium heat. stir from time to time
- after 20 minutes the rice should be nearly cooked. add the rest of the stock, along with peas, prawns and any seafood you are adding.
- cook for a further 10 minutes.
- take the chicken out of the oven, cut in to large chunks.
- add the chicken to the pan and cook for another 5 minutes.
- check the rice is fully cooked before serving, enjoy!
The pressure cooker makes paella quick and easy. This rice dish is studded with tender chicken and slices of spicy sausage for lots of flavor. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Our chicken and prawn paella is bursting with flavour and so easy to cook! This classic one-pot Not all traditional paella recipes use chicken, but we like it better this way.
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