How to Make Perfect Seafood Paella

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood paella. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Seafood Paella is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Seafood Paella is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood paella using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Paella:

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