Saturday, July 16, 2011

Paella de marisco ( seafood paella ) recipe

Let's prepare together the paella the marisco, the famous rice and shellfish dish from Spain world wide known. *** Hi Giallozafferano's friends, how many of you have ever eaten or heard about the paella? Well, today we'll be preparing it together. The paella is a rice-based single course typical of Spain, which takes its name from the frying pan used to cook and serve it. It can be prepared with several ingredients, and today we'll make the paella de marisco, or shellfish paella. But let's see together what ingredients we'll need: • 8 king prawns • 4 scampi • 1 lb (500 g) of mussels • 1 lb (500 g) of squids • 2 sachets of powdered saffron • 1 tsp of sweet paprika • ½ tsp of chili pepper • 5 cups (1,2 lt) of fish stock • Just under 1 cup (200 ml) of tomato puree • 2 cloves of garlic • 10 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil • 1 big onion • 14 oz (400 g) of rice (Arborio or Japonica) Well, let's prepare together the paella de marisco: In this frying pan I've put the mussels, well cleaned, I've covered with a lid and I've let them open on a high flame. Once they are open, drain them and keep the cooking liquid to cook the rice. Subtract the weight of the mussel water from the weight of the fish stock and substitute in order to obtain the same total amount of liquid for cooking the rice, that is 5 cups (1,2 lt). In our frying pan I've put 10 tbsp of oil, the prawns and the scampi; brown them on both sides, then take them out of the pan and keep them warm. After taking out the ...

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