Easy Paella For Two
From bobbie91302 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 2
I lived in Valencia, Spain for a year, and yearn for authentic paella, and wanted to make a small quantity. The secret is DON'T STIR and be generous with real saffron. Use cast iron fry pan if you don't have paella pan.
Ingredients
- 1 t. saffron, crushed and steeped in 3 T. stock shopping list
- 2 cups broth -- either chicken broth, or half chicken, half clam juice shopping list
- chopped peeled tomato (drained from can, amount to taste) shopping list
- 1 t. Spanish or Hungarian paprika shopping list
- dash turmeric (for color) shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
- spanish olive oil shopping list
- 1/2 cup chopped onion shopping list
- 5 minced garlic cloves shopping list
- 8 oz boneless chicken with skin shopping list
- 1 roasted peeled red pepper, cut into slices (or from jar) shopping list
- 1 cup paella rice (Matiz from Whole Foods) or other mediterranean rice shopping list
- 10 mussels (debearded and cleaned) shopping list
- OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS: you could add shrimp, artichoke hearts, peas, Spanish sliced chorizo, but adjust proportions so that rice is not overwhelmed. shopping list
How to make it
- Boil together the broth, saffron and the broth it steeped in, tomato, paprika, turmeric, salt and pepper.
- Heat oil in the paella pan or cast iron 12 inch frying pan.
- Add garlic and onion and cook until soft, then remove.
- Brown chicken, adding oil as needed, until about 75% done, then remove.
- Scrape bottom of pan, add more oil, add rice, and cook until translucent.
- Add boiling broth, cook at medium for 5 minutes.
- Lower heat, arrange chicken, red pepper, mussels, and any optional ingredients, and cook 15 minutes
- Cover, continue cooking on very low, about 5 more minutes.
- Note: you may need to move pan around so heat is even; you want the water to be absorbed and the bottom to begin to get crusty.
- Let stand about 5 minutes, discard mussels that do not open.
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Reviewed by 4 people-
Thanks for the post..haven't had that in a while
mystic_river1
in Bradenton loved it
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I love the recipe for two!! How wonderful.
notyourmomma
in South St. Petersburg loved it
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Thanks for the recipe, I tried it yesterday, very very nice. Quick and easy, very tasty. I will do this again for sure. I made it with the above plus prawns/artichokes. Cheers, mate.
luclarouche
in Bundoora loved it
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