Seafood Paella

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My boy loves Spanish food a lot, and therefore I am making this Seafood Pallea for him just to see his smile :)

Level - 5 out of 10

Preparation time - 20 minutes

Cooking time - 30 minutes

Ingredients - Serve 2

Olive oil

 

Sea salt

 

Black pepper

 

Iberico chorizo sauseage - 100g

 

Pork belly - 100g (skin remove, cut into 1cm piece)

 

Green pepper - roughly chopped

 

Red pepper - roughly chopped

 

Garlic - 3 cloves, roughly chopped

 

Onion - half, roughly chopped

 

Parsley - small bunch, roughly chopped

 

Clams/mussels/any kind of seafood - 200g

 

Pallea rice - 300g

 

Tomato - 1, roughly chopped

 

Chicken stock - 500g

 

Lemon, - 1, cut into wedges

 

 

How to cook:

1/ Heat a large wide-based pan over a medium heat, add olive oil, sliced chorizo and pork belly. Fry for around 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

2/ Add the chopped peppers, garlic, onion and parsley, good pinch of salt and pepper and the saffron. Fry gently for another 10 minutes, or until the vegetables have begun to soften.

3/ Add the rice and jarred peppers and keep stirring for a few minutes

 

4/ Pour in the tinned tomatoes and 300ml of stock, seasoning again with salt and pepper, bring everything to boil for around 15 minutes

 

5/ Add seafood. Add extra stock if the rice looks a bit dry

 

6/ Stir in the chopped parsley leaves and the juice from half your lemon wedges, and bring to the table with the remaining lemon wedges on the side and a crisp green salad.