Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, paella valenciana. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The real Paella Valenciana doesn't have green peas, but you can add, when its the season, artichoke in quarters. Someone told you to add a bit of lemon juice over it before eating the paella, and I agree it makes the flavour more intense, but the acid of the lemon combined with the carbohydrates of the rice makes your digestion difficult. Valencia is a region on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, which is known for its rice dishes.
Paella Valenciana is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Paella Valenciana is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook paella valenciana using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Paella Valenciana:
- Get 1 big onion, peeled and chopped
- Get 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- Make ready 1 small yellow bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- Get 2 cloves garlic chopped
- Make ready 1/2 kg boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into bite-size pieces
- Get 1 cup Spanish chorizo chopped
- Take 1 cup smoked pork ribs cut into bite-size pieces
- Prepare 4-5 cherry tomatoes
- Take 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads or 1 pack of paella spice mix (i like to use Carmencita)
- Get 1/3 cup olive oil
- Take 3 cups short-grain Spanish rice or other short-grain rice
- Take 1 small octopus, previosly cooked
- Prepare 1 cup cleaned squid
- Make ready 3 cups shrimp, peeled and deveined
- Get 8 jumbo shrimps
- Prepare 1 cup pea pods
- Take Salt and black pepper
- Prepare 4-5 cups hot water
Like with sushi, it needs to have the perfect consistency in order to reveal its best flavor and texture. It might seem basic, but it is the pillar everything builds up on. Paella valenciana is the traditional paella of the Valencia region, believed to be the original recipe, and consists of round grain rice, bajoqueta and tavella (varieties of green beans), rabbit, chicken, sometimes duck, garrofó (a variety of lima or butter bean). Artichoke hearts and stems may be used as seasonal ingredients.
Instructions to make Paella Valenciana:
- Prepare all the ingredients
- In a medium-size paella pan over medium-high heat, heat the olive oil.
- Add the chorizo and fry for about 5 minutes. Add the pork ribs and cook for another 5 minutes. Add also the chicken to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 5 to 6 minutes;
- Add the onion and sauté until just start to tenderize, 3 to 4 minutes;
- Add the peppers and garlic, and sauté for more 3 to 4 minutes;
- Add the rice and toast, stirring frequently, until it just becomes translucent, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the saffron or the paella seasoning;
- Add enough of hot water to the pan to just cover the rice, and bring the liquid to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium, and simmer for 10 minutes;
- Arrange the seafood (octopus, squid, peeled shrimp) and cook for another 8 minutes. Put more hot water if needed;
- Add the jumbo shrimp, cherry tomatoes and peas over the rice, cover with aluminum foil, and continue simmering until the seafood is cooked, for about 6 to 8 minutes.
- Remove the cooked paella from the heat and let rest for 5 minutes before serving. Sprinkle some olive oil on top.
Traditional Paella Valenciana also includes a third kind of bean, a white bean, that's hard to find outside of Spain. But our paella captures the spirit of Valencia with its other traditional ingredients like chicken, beans, artichokes, peppers, rosemary and its rich saffron-colored rice. A real paella valenciana is made with chicken and rabbit (and often snails), spiced with smoky sweet paprika and a few strands of golden saffron. And best of all is the socarrat. The slow, undisturbed simmering of the rice in broth means that the bottom layer will start to caramelize.
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