Recipe

Lobster Paella With Mussels Prawns And Squid Recipe

	Capedread / All my dishes 1 year, 12 months ago One to impress the boss, definitely worth the effort to make Prep:20m Cook:60m Servings:8	Capedread
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Ingredients

INGREDIENTS:

1 small free range whole chicken

STOCK:

• made chicken carcass with giblets and:

• 1 bouquet garni

• 3 celery sticks with leaves

• 1 onion

• 2 medium carrots

• Salt and black pepper

• 2 cloves garlic

• Water

• 2 pork, garlic and black pepper sausages

• 1 onion

• 4 garlic cloves

• Olive oil

• 225 g paella, Arborio or long grain rice

• Pinch of Saffron

• 450 g local mussels, cleaned and de-bearded

• 1 medium squid, cleaned and chopped

• 1 yellow pepper

• 2 medium tomatoes

• 1 Pre-cooked lobster

• 225 g ‘shell on prawns’ (pre-cooked)

• 2 x lemons, one for juice, one for wedges

• Nam pla - Thai fish sauce

• Pinch Cayenne pepper

• 450 g fresh garden peas on the pod (or 225 g of frozen)

• Granary buns or chunky white bread as a side dish

Directions

Joint the chicken and take the meat off the bones.

For the stock, chop the onion, celery (sticks & leaves) and carrots.

Place the chicken carcass and giblets with the bouquet garni, celery (sticks and leaves), onion, carrots and garlic in a large sauce pan. Season, cover in water and simmer for 30 minutes

Once cooked, strain through a sieve and set aside.

Grill the sausages until cooked.

Dice the onion and garlic and fry in olive oil in a large pan or paella pan.

Brown the chicken joints and transfer to a resting plate.

Add the rice, coat in oil. Add the saffron and return the chicken to the pan.

Add enough stock to cover the rice. Simmer for 10 minutes. Keep topping up with stock till the rice is cooked.

in a separate pan with a lid, steam the mussels in a dash of stock until they open.

Add the mussels to casserole dish. (reserve some in their shells for garnish).

Add the squid. Cook for a further 10 minutes.

Chop the pepper.

Blanche the tomatoes in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Plunge into iced water and remove the skins then chop and add to the pan.

De-shell and chop the lobster. Chop the sausage.