Classic Paella

How to Making Recipes Classic Paella using 20 ingredients and 10 steps

Classic Paella - A Valencian peasant dish, paella was traditionally made with ingredients such as rabbit, chicken and snails. Paella can seem daunting to prepare, but this recipe makes light work of the traditional Spanish dish. Festive and colourful, it is sure to please everyone at the table, thanks to its medley of different flavours. Having a Paella Pan is not. With this simple step-by-step recipe that has been triple tested in the Woman's Weekly kitchen.

Paella, although traditionally a Valencian rice dish, is a very popular dish in Barcelona.

Its seaside location makes seafood paella a prime choice.

You can have Classic Paella using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients make Classic Paella

1. Prepare 300 g chicken breast or thighes.
2. It's 150 g mussels out of the shell.
3. You need 300 g spanish paella rice.
4. It's 200 g fresh prawns.
5. It's 3 cloves garlic.
6. You need 1 celery stick.
7. Prepare 1 large red onion.
8. It's 1 red pepper.
9. You need 1 corguette.
10. It's 1 carrot.
11. You need 80 g frozen peas.
12. You need Good pinch of saffron.
13. Prepare Tin chopped tomatoes.
14. You need 600 ml chicken stock.
15. Prepare 15 g parsley.
16. It's 3 teaspoons smoked paprika.
17. You need 1/2 teaspoon oregano.
18. Prepare Olive oil.
19. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt.
20. You need 1 teaspoon pepper.

Classic Paella instructions

1. Put the saffron into the chicken stock and allow it to steep for a while.
2. Dice the chicken and seal the pieces in a large frying pan with some olive oil for about 5 minutes. Remove from the pan.
3. Chop onion, carrot, celery and red pepper and fry in olive oil for 5 minutes until soft.
4. Add the chopped garlic and fry for another minute.
5. Add in the smoked paprika, corguette and oregano and stir well.
6. Pour in the rice and stir until it's all coated.
7. Pour over the saffron chicken stock and add the diced chicken pieces back to the pan. Add the tomatoes, season and stir well..
8. Cook for 15 minutes stirring occasionally. If the rice dries out too much add some more water.
9. Add in the mussels, prawns, 3/4 of the chopped parsley and peas. Cook for a further 5-10 minutes until the seafood is cooked through.
10. Serve with the remaining parsley over the top.

Classic Paella - What are you doing-get up and make it already. The mussels and half of the clams did not open for at least. Feel free to add seafood or chicken too! Read the Mixed Paella recipe, perfect for celebrations. Try adding some snails to your paella to make even tastier. » Paella is a Spanish dish of rice, vegetables, and typically a mix of meat and seafood. I love it dearly, but don't make often enough — usually because it calls for ingredients such as chorizo and saffron. This paella recipe makes paella for two, and includes options for mixta (meat and seafood), seafood and vegetarian versions. Thank you and good luck