Why not treat yourself to this Seafood & Chicken Paella as recommended by Chef Benjamin Ferra Y Castell, Chef de Cuisine at 101 Dining Lounge and Marina at One&Only The Palm, Dubai.
Like listening to music while you cook? Play La Paella by Jose Alberto to get you in the Spanish mood.
Seafood & Chicken Paella
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- 320g Bomba rice
- 650ml shrimp stock (or seafood/fish /chicken stock)
- 30g chorizo
- 200g raw shrimps
- 60g calamari
- 50ml virgin olive oil
- 1 chicken fillet
- 75g white onions
- 50g red bell pepper
- 50g green bell pepper
- 50g frozen peas
- 4 padrón peppers
- 75g tomato sauce
- 4g curry powder
- 4g sweet pepper powder
- 1g turmeric powder
- 2g saffron pistil
- 20g lemon juice
- 4 lemon wedges
Directions:
Chop white onions and bell peppers
Cut chorizo in small dices of 5mm and thin slices
Peel the raw shrimps by keeping the head
Cut the chicken and calamari in squares of 3cm
Put the olive oil in a paella pan and fry onions, bell peppers as well as few dices of chorizo in it
Once everything is cooked, add the rice until it gets glazed
Add all the spices & powders and fill it up with shrimp stock; simmer by stiring until it is cooked
After 10 mins of simmering add the frozen peas
Finally add the tomato sauce and stir the paella ocasionally
Pan-fry the chicken, shrimps, calamari, chorizo slices and padrón peppers separately
Garnish the paella with the pan-fired ingredients, lemon juice and lemon wedges on top
Ready to serve
Enjoy!
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