PAELLA! PAELLA!
Hello, food lovers today my post is about how I made paella.
This recipe is my contribution to the qurator hive top chef.by @qurator. As we grew up in a coastal area, our diet was dependent on fish Goan cuisine has considerable Portuguese influences. we make recipes similar to paella with local seafood so this kind of seafood dish is not exactly new to me. but I never tasted Spanish paella until last Christmas while .enjoying the holiday in Spain Perhaps i was unlucky in my choice of restaurants but to be honest I wasn't very happy with the excessive fish broth taste. Later, back home I read about how to make it and watched different online tutorials and tried making a vegan version, i will not go so far as to call that attempt paella.
However, today I am making my version of "real" paella with shrimp and codfish and some vegetables.
Ingredients:
1 cup of cod fish in chunks
1 green paprika
1/2 cup peeled raw shrimp
1 red paprika
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 onion
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup unpeeled raw shrimp
3/4 cup round rice
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 very hot chili
1 garlic
1 cup cherry tomatoes
2 cups fish broth
1 tsp parsley
2 slices of lemon cut in halves.
Cleaned and chopped all the vegetables.
Fried 7-8 red paprika slices.
Cleaned the fish and sprinkled 2 pinches of salt and pepper on it.
Cleaned and took away the "sword" from the shrimps.
In an iron pan, Yes I know a very special pan is traditionally used to make paella but we don't have one, so I used our regular heavy cast iron skillet:)
Warm oil.
fried the fish lightly until 50% cooked. removed them to a plate.
Placed green and red paprika in the same frying pan in the same oil. Stirred around 2 minutes.
Stirred in chopped garlic and hot chili split into two slices.
After the garlic became aromatic i added the chopped onion. stirred until the onion turned translucent.
Adding tomato paste into it.
Stirred and mixed it well into the paprika onion mixture.
Adding salt and pepper stirred and cooked for 2 minutes.
Added 2 cups fish broth and cooked it 2 minutes more.
Adding the washed rice to the boiling sauce.
Stirred just once, lowered the heat and allowed the rice to cook.
When rice is almost done i added the peeled shrimp.
Very lightly mixed the shrimp in with the rice.
Now the time for setting the raw unpeeled shrimp on top
I placed fried paprika sticks, cherry tomatoes and codfish chunks together with prawns. switched off the heat and covered for around 5 minutes.
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Garnished with chopped parsley and lemon.
And enjoyed my Sunday dinner.
Thank you