Paella Valanciana
HRinNH
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Paella Valenciana (mixto)
Ingredients :
1 Cup Spanish Olive Oil (Virgin Extra)
4 pieces of Chicken
4 pieces of Rabbit
8 Shrimps(frozen is OK)
8 mussels and/or clams
1 or 2 large Crab torsos (with legs)(frozen is OK)
250 grams of White Fish (any kind)
1 (small) package of frozen peas
1/2 can diced tomatoes
A few red pimientos (canned)
1 small spoon Saffron (or yellow food colorant if you can´t find Saffron)
500 grams of Spanish rice, medium grain.
1 lemon
Fresh Rosemary
Salt
11/4 liter water
Pour the Olive Oil in the cold paella pan and heat it. (Do it the other way around..you get spattered with hot oil).. Once it starts to bubble:
First, fry the chicken and the rabbit and the tomato sauce at the same time, during several minutes; the meat has to be well done. (This is called the sofrito)
Add a little salt.
At the same time cut the white fish in small pieces and when the meat is almost ready, add the fish and fry it too.
Take a sip of a cold dry white wine.
When the meat and fish is well-done, (if you do it the other way around the meat will not get crispy because of the water in the vegetables) add the vegetables and move a couple of times, and after 1 minute, add water and saffron, (fill the paella pan completely)...or roughly...one liter of water for each 500 grams of rice.
Let it boil with high fire during 20 to 30 minutes, tasting for salt concentration now and then. Add crab legs, shrimps, mussels and clams.
After 20 or 30 minutes the paella is ready for the rice. There is a special way to do it:
Take a sip of a cold dry white wine.
Make a mountain ridge that is going to criss- cross the paella pan, in 2 diameters . These two ridges of rice must be over the water level one inch, with this technique you don't have a problem to know how much rice you need. After you have measured the rice like this, move it with a spoon and mix it into the whole paella.
Add water again, but this time pour the water in until it reaches the handles.
Add the crab legs, clams and shrimp.
Lower the fire and add in the fresh cut rosemary sprigs as garnish. The rice has to cook 20 minutes.
Watch the water and the fire, the rice has to cook 20 minutes but don't burn it!!
When the water has ALMOST disappeared.....add the peas, and turn the fire off.
Slice the red pimientos and arrange them in a radial design (like wheel spokes) as decoration.
Cover the paella pan with a damp kitchen towel and let it "rest" for another 5 minutes.
Take a sip of a cold dry white wine.
Cut the lemon in 4 pieces and serve the rice with one-piece of lemon on the dish. Each diner squeezes a piece of lemon (to taste) onto his portion.
Put on a little Spanish guitar music on the stereo.....(Paco de Lucia)
NOTE: Leviticus says I can't eat rabbit or seafood (except fish) so I'd put in plenty of the chicken, white fish and call it good.
Cheers!
Cheryl
Ingredients :
1 Cup Spanish Olive Oil (Virgin Extra)
4 pieces of Chicken
4 pieces of Rabbit
8 Shrimps(frozen is OK)
8 mussels and/or clams
1 or 2 large Crab torsos (with legs)(frozen is OK)
250 grams of White Fish (any kind)
1 (small) package of frozen peas
1/2 can diced tomatoes
A few red pimientos (canned)
1 small spoon Saffron (or yellow food colorant if you can´t find Saffron)
500 grams of Spanish rice, medium grain.
1 lemon
Fresh Rosemary
Salt
11/4 liter water
Pour the Olive Oil in the cold paella pan and heat it. (Do it the other way around..you get spattered with hot oil).. Once it starts to bubble:
First, fry the chicken and the rabbit and the tomato sauce at the same time, during several minutes; the meat has to be well done. (This is called the sofrito)
Add a little salt.
At the same time cut the white fish in small pieces and when the meat is almost ready, add the fish and fry it too.
Take a sip of a cold dry white wine.
When the meat and fish is well-done, (if you do it the other way around the meat will not get crispy because of the water in the vegetables) add the vegetables and move a couple of times, and after 1 minute, add water and saffron, (fill the paella pan completely)...or roughly...one liter of water for each 500 grams of rice.
Let it boil with high fire during 20 to 30 minutes, tasting for salt concentration now and then. Add crab legs, shrimps, mussels and clams.
After 20 or 30 minutes the paella is ready for the rice. There is a special way to do it:
Take a sip of a cold dry white wine.
Make a mountain ridge that is going to criss- cross the paella pan, in 2 diameters . These two ridges of rice must be over the water level one inch, with this technique you don't have a problem to know how much rice you need. After you have measured the rice like this, move it with a spoon and mix it into the whole paella.
Add water again, but this time pour the water in until it reaches the handles.
Add the crab legs, clams and shrimp.
Lower the fire and add in the fresh cut rosemary sprigs as garnish. The rice has to cook 20 minutes.
Watch the water and the fire, the rice has to cook 20 minutes but don't burn it!!
When the water has ALMOST disappeared.....add the peas, and turn the fire off.
Slice the red pimientos and arrange them in a radial design (like wheel spokes) as decoration.
Cover the paella pan with a damp kitchen towel and let it "rest" for another 5 minutes.
Take a sip of a cold dry white wine.
Cut the lemon in 4 pieces and serve the rice with one-piece of lemon on the dish. Each diner squeezes a piece of lemon (to taste) onto his portion.
Put on a little Spanish guitar music on the stereo.....(Paco de Lucia)
NOTE: Leviticus says I can't eat rabbit or seafood (except fish) so I'd put in plenty of the chicken, white fish and call it good.
Cheers!
Cheryl
Comments
I think this sounds wonderful, but, frankly, it is much too complicated sounding for me to struggle through. I would, however, love to sit at the table and sip wine while you created it.
A Paella pan looks sorta like a wok but flatter. Yes, though Leviticus calls it a hare.
That's a deal. On the next Forum Cruise, I'll teach a class on complicated Spanish cuisine and chuckle to myself all the while y'all get sloshed watching me move about the kitchen...is there a doctor in the house?
P.S. Sign me up for the drinker/spectator role on the cruise cooking class.
"Take a sip of a cold dry white wine."
and the part about
"add the vegetables and move a couple of times,"
can you move any way you want?
I think I'll sit with the spectators and drink wine! I volunteer to do the dishes though.