Seafood Paella
Ingredients
- 2 cups fish or chicken stock
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 small yellow onion
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 ripe tomatoes, diced
- 1/4 tsp. crumbled saffron threads
- 1/2 tsp. sweet or hot smoked paprika
- Kosher salt
- 1 cup Spanish bomba or Arborio rice
- 1 cup green beans
- 1 cup peas
- 1 cup bell peppers, sliced
- 4 small squid, bodies cut into rings, tentacles left whole
- 12 large shrimp, peeled with tail segment left intact and deveined
- 12 large mussels
- 12 sea scallops, side muscles removed
Recipe
- Combine wine and broth in saucepan and bring to simmer
- Fry onion & garlic in oil.
- Add tomatoes. Add salt, paprika and saffron, and cook until mixture begins to caramelize. Stir in the squid and heat up.
- Stir in rice and cook until heated through.
- Stir in the peas, beans and bell peppers
- Add simmering broth/wine mixture, bring to boil, and salt to taste.
- Arrange rice evenly in pan and do not stir again.
- Cook over low heat for 18-20 minutes total, adding the seafood in the following fashion:
- After 8 minutes arrange the mussels in the pan, distributing them evenly
- After another 2 minutes lay shrimp on top and turn when underside becomes pink
- Lightly season scallops with salt and fry until browned (2-3 minutes per side).
- When paella is cooked, turn heat to high for 40 secs to toast the rice at the bottom (called socarrat), and arrange scallops on top.
- Let rest for 10 mins and serve.