Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Heat the oil in a large paella pan or an extra-large frying pan. This seafood-lover's version of paella from Food & Wine 's Kay Chun has four different types of shellfish, as well as plenty of meaty bites of chorizo. Seafood Paella is the most popular of the Paellas.
Seafood Paella is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Seafood Paella is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook seafood paella using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:
- Prepare 250 g kingklip fillet
- Take 300 g calamari rings
- Prepare 300 g mussel meat
- Take 300 g king prawns
- Prepare 1 red onion - finely chopped
- Prepare 1 tin chopped tomato
- Prepare 50 ml tomato paste
- Prepare 5 cloves garlic finely minced
- Take 1 thumb size ginger - grated
- Take Pinch saffron
- Prepare 2 cups basmati rice
- Take 1 cup hot water
- Make ready 3 cups cold water
- Get 1 cup baby peas
- Take 1 red pepper - sliced
- Make ready To serve- parsley and lemon wedges
With flavors of citrus and sherry, if you want just skip the seafood and eat the rice! If compliments were worth money, I'd be a millionaire! This seafood paella recipe requires organization and slicing and dicing in advance. But once the paella gets going, the process is pretty seamless—and the rewards are huge.
Instructions to make Seafood Paella:
- Heat olive oil and fry kingklip in small batches for 3-4 minutes. Remove and set aside
- Fry calamari in same pan for 5 minutes and remove
- Fry onion, garlic and ginger until fragrant in 1 Tbls ghee
- Add tin of tomatoes and tomato paste and reduce for 10 minutes on medium heat
- Meanwhile add a pinch of saffron to 1 cup hot water and steep for 10minutes
- Add rice to tomatoes sauce and braise for 5 minutes uncovered
- Strain saffron and add infused water to tomatoes and rice mixture together with 3 cups cold water. Bring to the boil
- Return precooked fish and calamari to the pan
- Add mussel meat, peas and red pepper and simmer with lid closed until most of the liquid is absorbed
- Place prawns on top of rice and steam for 10 minutes until cooked
- Serve with parsley and lemon wedges
Seafood paellas should be made with a variety of fish and shellfish, each adding its own flavor and texture. Always include jumbo shrimp, mussels or clams, and a firm white fish such as monkfish. Seafood Paella made with Calasparra rice, tiger shrimp, squid, littleneck clams, and mussels with garlic and parsley paste and saffron. This delicious seafood paella was prepared by my wife, Dey. Read the Seafood Paella recipe, the iconic Spanish dish.
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