My Seafood Paella....

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.