Paella ( Spanish rice )

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4 from 1 vote

Rice based Spanish One Pot meal with meat, seafood and veggies. This is specially dedicated for non-veg lovers :)

Prep Time10

Cook Time45

Total Time55

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: spanish

Servings: serving

Calories: 722kcal

Author: Jane Jojo

Ingredients

1 ½ lb chicken
1 lb Chorizo sausage Spanish
1 lb shrimp
2 cups rice Spanish
1 Bay Leaf
1 onion
1 bell pepper
2 tomato
3 numbers garlic clove
2 tsps paprika
½ bunch parsley
1 pinch saffron thread (optional)
1 cup water (warm)
2 cups chicken stock
olive oil

Spice Mix for chicken

11/2 tbsps paprika
2 tsps oregano
½ teaspoon pepper
1 ½ tsps salt

Instructions

Cut chicken into small pieces. Mix the ingredients listed under spice mix. Rub it all over the chicken and marinate chicken for 1 hour in the refrigerator. Clean, peel and de-vein the shrimp. Keep it aside.
Cut sausage into thick slices. Heat olive oil in a paella pan or a wide shallow pan. Saute the chorizo until browned, remove and reserve.
Add chicken into the same pan and brown all the sides. Remove from the pan and reserve.
Dice onion and bell pepper. In the same pan, saute onion and bell pepper in medium heat for around 5 minutes. Add oil if needed.
Crush garlic. Chop parsley leaves. Add garlic, paprika, parsley leaves and bay leaf. Saute for couple of minutes.
Dice and mash tomatoes. Add it and cook it until tomatoes are done.
Add rice and stir-fry to coat the grains. Add water and stock. Adjust salt. Simmer it for 10 minutes. Add chicken, sausage and saffron threads. Add shrimp tucking them into rice.
Cook it until shrimp is done and rice is fluffy and moist. Don't stir. Garnish with parsley leaves. Enjoy :)

Notes

I used Basmati rice instead of Spanish rice.

You can also add clams and Lobster tails along with shrimp. Since the dish's already an overload of meat and seafood, I didn't add those. It will definitely

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