Paella - Valencia Style
Paella - Valencia Style

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, paella - valencia style. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Today here we bring you the original paella recipe. As you may know, this dish was created in Valencia, Spain and there are many different types. Paella is found throughout the country, with some variations, but it is in the Levant, particularly in Valencia, that paella finds its most renowned interpretation.

Paella - Valencia Style is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Paella - Valencia Style is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have paella - valencia style using 34 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Paella - Valencia Style:
  1. Prepare 2 lbs mild chorizo sausage small balls
  2. Take 2 lbs chicken cubed
  3. Make ready 2 lbs prawns (or half and add clams or mussels)
  4. Prepare 2 red peppers, julienned
  5. Make ready 1 cup frozen pkg frozen peas, thawed (optional)
  6. Prepare 1 cup chick peas or 1 540 g can, drained and washed
  7. Make ready 3 cups rice (parboiled rice or a good Paella rice found in most gourmet shops)
  8. Make ready 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
  9. Make ready 5 g Spanish saffron
  10. Make ready to taste Salt
  11. Take 2 litres chicken broth
  12. Make ready 1 bulb garlic, chopped fine
  13. Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil (extra virgin oil like Gallo
  14. Make ready 1-2 tablespoons fish sauce if you are not using a seafood broth
  15. Make ready Tools
  16. Get Use cast iron or steel pan
  17. Take Wooden spoon to stir
  18. Prepare Paring knife (to remove garlic centre)
  19. Prepare Sharp cutting knife or preferred chopping choice
  20. Get Bowls
  21. Prepare Cutting board
  22. Get Ingredients for 8 people
  23. Get 1 lb chorizo sausage chopped or made into bite sized balls
  24. Prepare 1 lb chicken cubed
  25. Make ready 1 lb prawns
  26. Prepare 1 lb clams or mussels
  27. Take 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
  28. Get 1.5 cups rice
  29. Make ready 1 sprig rosemary
  30. Get 2.5 grams saffron
  31. Make ready to taste Salt
  32. Prepare 1 ltr chicken or seafood broth
  33. Make ready 1 bulb garlic
  34. Get 3/4 cup olive oil

My family is from Valencia and preparing the paella is a tradition to us. This paella is pretty close to the original recipe we have been using for years and years. Valencia is a Spanish coastal city where this dish is particularly revered. This paella features seafood, sausage and chicken but don't forget the saffron – it is the essential spice of the dish.

Instructions to make Paella - Valencia Style:
  1. HINT If you have people sensitive to garlic before mincing garlic, take the heart out which is the green piece in the middle of the clove. Briefly sauté garlic and julienned peppers in 1/2 of the oil. For 5 minutes on medium heat. Add salt lightly, to taste. Remove peppers from pan and set aside. Leave garlic in pan.
  2. Sauté the chorizo sausage and the cubed chicken on medium heat for about 5 minutes, remember you are adding fresh ingredients to the pan so salt lightly for taste. Next add the rice. Saffron add 1 tsp of salt and the remaining oil. Sauté the ingredients in the pan for about 5 minutes. Even out the remaining ingredients in the pan and place the two sprigs of rosemary in the pan. Now you do not stir again.
  3. Add the warm chicken broth by using a ladle until the rice is covered in the pan. Do not dump the broth in as you want to keep the evenness of the rice on the bottom of the pan. Do not forget to add salt for taste. Scatter the chick peas evenly in the pan. Remember do not stir in. Let simmer for 20 minutes.
  4. Add shrimp and seafood of choice along with peas and re add peppers, arrange the remaining ingredients so that no mixing is required. Ddistributing evenly in pan.
  5. Cover with tinfoil and cook for approximately 10 minutes or until rice is cooked.
  6. HINTS - You can freeze the left over Paella but not for a long period of time. You could place in the oven to heat up. You can also re-fry the left over Paella in pan by adding some oil.

While versions these days often use more common proteins, classic Valencia-style paella is made with. Paella is a Spanish rice dish originally from Valencia. Paella is one of the best-known dishes in Spanish cuisine. For this reason, many non-Spaniards view it as Spain's national dish. Find valencia paella stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection.

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