Paella

The other night I had a go at making my first paella and I have to say it was fucking beatiful.

Here's how I did it incase anyone reading fancies giving it a go.

Ingredients

Chorizo Sausage

2 Chicken breasts (Rabbit is better)

Prawns (bigger the better)

Fresh Mussels (you can use clams) - with the seafood add as much as you like

Squid - depending on how fussy people are.

Saffron (1.4 teaspoon)

Chicken/Fish Stock

One whole onion (diced)

1 green/1 red pepper

Garlic (3 cloves)

Tomatoes (2-3)

Thyme/Cumin/Piment ón/ Salt and pepper

500g of Paella rice (tip - however much rice you put in, double the stock.

Cómo se cocina una paella?

Fry the Chorizo in a little bit of Olive Oil (it has plenty of fat so you only need a little oil) then after a while add the onion and the garlic until brown, however keep the heat quite low and keep stirring as if ther garlic burns the dish is already ruined. Then add the peppers, tomatoes and the chicken (you can also add panceta - if you wish to do so, add it with the pepers) Then cook slowly on a slow heat adding pimentón and pepper (I don't like adding salt when cooking with Chorizo but you can) Then add the seafood, prawns, mussles and squid, you can also add other seafood as you wish (monkfish, crab etc). At this point I added coriander but it's not really necessary (I just love the taste of it and we can't get it in Salamanca so I wanted to add it for that reason. Then add the rice, the saffron and the stock and cook on quite a high heat until the stock has gone and the rice is cooked (AVOID STIRRING)

This is how my paella looked about 5 mintues before it was ready, as you can see the rice has turned a lovely yellow colour and the stock has almost gone.

Serve with Salad and big chunks of bread with a nice glass of Spanish wine.

Perfect.