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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.