Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, easy chicken paella. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Easy Chicken Paella is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Easy Chicken Paella is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy chicken paella using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Chicken Paella:
- Take paella
- Prepare salt and pepper
- Take olive oil
- Take boneless chicken breasts
- Prepare plain flour ( for dusting )
- Get paella rice (can use risotto rice)
- Get pancetta (or smokey bacon)
- Take chorizo
- Make ready onion - finely chopped
- Get garlic cloves chopped finely
- Prepare hot chicken stock
- Make ready smoked paprika
- Get pinches of saffron
- Prepare handfulls of fresh or frozen peas
- Take king prawns (optional, can use any seafood)
Instructions to make Easy Chicken Paella:
- preheat oven to 190c or gas mark 5
- season chicken breasts, lightly dust with flour
- heat a large wok or paella pan with olive oil
- brown the chicken breats in the pan
- once all chicken breasts have been browned,place the chicken on a baking tray and place in the centre of the oven for 30 mins
- whilst chicken is cooking in the oven, fry the chorizo and panchetta in the wok or pan until brown and crispy.
- then add the garlic and onion, cook until soft
- in the meantime, infuse half the stock with the saffron.
- then add smoked paprika, the rice and the infused chicken stock to the pan. leave to cook for 20 mins on a medium heat. stir from time to time
- after 20 minutes the rice should be nearly cooked. add the rest of the stock, along with peas, prawns and any seafood you are adding.
- cook for a further 10 minutes.
- take the chicken out of the oven, cut in to large chunks.
- add the chicken to the pan and cook for another 5 minutes.
- check the rice is fully cooked before serving, enjoy!
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