SEAFOOD PAELLA
For the longest time i really wanted to cook Paella... i have this craving since i came to Dubai, UAE since most of the ingredients can be found here. But unfortunately it took me a while to cook this for various reason.
Cooking this dish took a long time from preparing to cooking.
Of course you have to have a good skillet if not a paella pan. i found mine in IKEA.
Ingredients:
- 8 pieces mussels
- 8 pieces clams
- 8 pieces shrimp-separate the head set aside for soup stock
- 2 medium size squid
- 2 cups of rice (your own choice)
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 pack of saffron -small
- 1 tbsp of paprika
- green peas
- onion (medium size)
- garlic
- 2 shrimp cubes
- 1-2 tbs of olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
How to Prepare
- Cut and Diced onion, garlic and half of the bell pepper (the other half is for garnish)
- clean mussels and clams and set aside
- clean and remove the ink of the squid
- in a small pan, add the shrimp head and 2 shrimp cubes and bring to boil and set aside
How to Cook
- in the skillet put on the 2 tbs of olive oil.
- saute the onion, garlic and red bell pepper
- add the paprika
- add the saffron still gently
- add the rice and stir
- then add the soup stock make sure it cover the whole pan
- add the seafood and cover for 8-10 mins.
- occasionally stir the pan to cover all the rice
- once cooked, add the bell pepper for garnish and sprinkle with frozen geen peas.
- and Done.
