Paella ( Spanish rice )

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

Summary

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Course main course
Cuisine spanish
Yield 5 serving
Cooking Time 45 minutes
Preparation Time 10 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes

Ingredients

chicken

1 1/2 lb

Chorizo sausage Spanish

1 lb

shrimp

1 lb

rice Spanish

2 cups

bay leaf

onion

bell pepper

tomato

garlic clove

3 numbers

paprika

2 tsps

parsley

1/2 bunch

saffron thread (optional)

1 pinch

water (warm)

1 cup

chicken stock

2 cups

Olive oil

Spice Mix for chicken

Paprika

11/2 tbsps

oregano

2 tsps

pepper

1/2 tsp

salt

1 1/2 tsps

Steps

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