Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

I chose shrimp, clams, and mussels for this seafood version of paella, and Spanish dry-cured chorizo for its smoky, meaty flavor. Chorizo can be a controversial add-in and not all Spanish cooks agree that it belongs in paella, so skip it if you like. Heat the olive oil in a large pan on stovetop.

Seafood Paella is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Seafood Paella is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have seafood paella using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:

1. Get 2 cups chicken stock or 1 stock cube with 2 cups of boiling water
2. Get 2 cups dry white wine
3. Get 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
4. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, crumbled
5. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper
6. Get 3 tablespoons olive oil
7. Take 1 onion, finely chopped
8. Take 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
9. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
10. Prepare 2 chorizo sausages, sliced into thin half-moons
11. Get 3 cups Italian Arborio rice
12. Get 1 tin diced tomatoes
13. Prepare 2 tomatoes, quartered
14. Make ready 1 cup Edamame beans (or peas)
15. Take 450 g prawn tails, cleaned (I deep fried the heads for fun)
16. Get 400 g half mussels
17. Take 400 g calamari steak cut in strips
18. Prepare 1 cup chopped parsley, for garnish
19. Take 2 lemons quartered, for garnish
20. Prepare 4 chilies chopped, for garnish

This is the pan of rice that the world fell in love with. Apart from beautifully fresh fish, shrimp, squid, mussels, and clams, the real treasure of seafood paella is the rice. Paella is a traditional Spanish rice dish, and there are many different variations. There is a vegetarian paella, a seafood paella, chicken paella and a meat paella.

Instructions to make Seafood Paella:

1. Prep all ingredients before your guests arrive. Assemble them next to the braai until you are ready.
2. In a jug, mix together the wine and stock. Add the saffron and salt. Let the flavours marry for as long as possible.
3. When the braai is ready, place a big paella pan on the grid. Heat the olive oil in that pan. Add the onion and red pepper and cook it until the onion is translucent. Stir in the garlic and chorizo and cook until fragrant.
4. Add the rice. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes until the rice is toasted and coated in the oil, onion and pepper mix.
5. Stir in the stock, tomatoes, peas and paprika. Taste for seasoning and add more salt, if necessary.
6. Spread the rice evenly over the bottom of the pan. Cover the pan with foil and simmer the rice without stirring for 15 minutes, or until the rice absorbs most of the liquid. It's important not to stir the rice, even though you may want to. You want to create a crust at the bottom. If it starts to look too dry, add some water/wine, but not too much and DON'T stir.
7. Add the seafood, nestle it nicely into the rice. Cover with foil and let the seafood and rice cook. This should take about 10 minutes.
8. Remove the foil, check that the liquid is absorbed, that everything is cooked and adjust the seasoning, if necessary.
9. Finally, check to see if the elusive 'socarrat' was created. This is the golden brown crust at the bottom of the pan. If you can, wait to see if you can create the crust, if not - better luck next time…
10. Sprinkle with parsley and bring the whole pan to the table. Serve with lemons, chilli, more parsley and a lot more wine.
11. Thanks simplyrecipes.com for the inspo

I also really like mixed paella which means that you can add anything that you like to it, for example, chicken, chorizo, beans, or whatever your heart desires! Arroz a la Marinera Valencia This is the dramatic seafood paella that looks stunning, with crustaceans and shellfish. You can vary the quantities of seafood and also use crab, crayfish, or lobster. Commonly though a seafood paella will include a combination of shrimp, clams, mussels and often squid. Some will also add a few pieces of firm-fleshed fish to the mix.

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