Steps to Make Homemade Seafood Paella

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Seafood Paella is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Seafood Paella is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook seafood paella using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:

1. Make ready Arborio or uncooked white rice
2. Prepare onion chopped finely
3. Make ready garlic, grated
4. Make ready seafood mix
5. Take prawns
6. Make ready black mussels
7. Make ready smoked paprika
8. Get crushed chillies
9. Prepare ground coriander
10. Get ground coriander
11. Prepare butter
12. Prepare vegetable stock
13. Prepare steamed green peas
14. Get saffron threads
15. Take lemon cut into wedges
16. Make ready sea salt or to taste
17. Take extra virgin olive oil

Steps to make Seafood Paella:

1. Rinse and devein prawns, then transfer to a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt. Set aside.
2. Add vegetable stock to a saucepan and season to your taste with sea salt. Add saffron threads, cover with a lid and allow it to steep while you start the paella.
3. In a large deep skillet heat up 3 tbsp of olive oil and add the diced onion with a pinch of salt, some smoked paprika, ground coriander, crushed chillies and sauté until translucent. Add the garlic and give it a stir.
4. Stir in the rice making sure it coats nicely in the olive oil. Stir in the stock and bring to a boil. Cover with a lid, turn stove to low heat and cook for 20-25 minutes. Once the rice is almost cooked through allow to sit covered for 5 minutes.
5. In a different pan heat up butter and garlic and add the prawns and give it a nice toss in the garlic butter, cook for 5-6 minutes and set aside in a bowl.
6. In the same pan add the seafood mix. Add a pinch of salt and paprika and cover with a lid and allow to cook for about 10 - 15 minutes once it's cooked through, transfer on top of the paella and mix through with the rice.
7. Steam mussels in a pot for 4 - 5 minutes until they open and release the sea water then strain. Transfer them on top of the paella together with the prawns.
8. Serve your paella sprinkled with the green peas and garnish lemon wedges and parsley (optional)

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