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December 11, 2015 Chicken

Paella ( Spanish rice )

 

 

Rice based Spanish One Pot meal with meat, seafood and veggies. This is specially dedicated for non-veg lovers 🙂

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Total Time 55 minutes mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine spanish
Servings 5 serving

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ lb chicken
  • 1 lb Chorizo sausage Spanish
  • 1 lb shrimp
  • 2 cups rice Spanish
  • 1 Bay Leaf
  • 1 onion
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 2 tomato
  • 3 numbers garlic clove
  • 2 tsps paprika
  • ½ bunch parsley
  • 1 pinch saffron thread (optional)
  • 1 cup water (warm)
  • 2 cups chicken stock
  • olive oil

Spice Mix for chicken

  • 11/2 tbsps paprika
  • 2 tsps oregano
  • ½ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 ½ tsps salt

Instructions
 

  • Cut chicken into small pieces. Mix the ingredients listed under spice mix. Rub it all over the chicken and marinate chicken for 1 hour in the refrigerator. Clean, peel and de-vein the shrimp. Keep it aside.
  • Cut sausage into thick slices. Heat olive oil in a paella pan or a wide shallow pan. Saute the chorizo until browned, remove and reserve.
  • Add chicken into the same pan and brown all the sides. Remove from the pan and reserve.
  • Dice onion and bell pepper. In the same pan, saute onion and bell pepper in medium heat for around 5 minutes. Add oil if needed.
  • Crush garlic. Chop parsley leaves. Add garlic, paprika, parsley leaves and bay leaf. Saute for couple of minutes.
  • Dice and mash tomatoes. Add it and cook it until tomatoes are done.
  • Add rice and stir-fry to coat the grains. Add water and stock. Adjust salt. Simmer it for 10 minutes. Add chicken, sausage and saffron threads. Add shrimp tucking them into rice.
  • Cook it until shrimp is done and rice is fluffy and moist. Don't stir. Garnish with parsley leaves. Enjoy 🙂

Notes

I used Basmati rice instead of Spanish rice.
You can also add clams and Lobster tails along with shrimp. Since the dish's already an overload of meat and seafood, I didn't add those. It will definitely
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