Vegetable Paella
The perfect Vegetarian food, well flavoured, filling, colourful and easy to make.
Increase the volumes for cooking for a crowd.
Preparation time: 10 minutes Quantity: Serves 2 Cooking time: 20 ish minutes
Ingredients
120g/ 4 oz rice (paella or short grain)
1 red whole pepper-roasted and sliced
1 small onion (chopped)
2 cloves garlic (crushed)
½ teaspoon paprika
¼ teaspoon saffron
(op) ½ courgette
Mediterranean vegetables ie courgettes, aubergines. red onions, peppers and you could use peas
Method
- Sauté in olive oil the onions until soft
- Then stir in the garlic and the spices
- Then stir in the rice for a few minutes
- Add ¾ pint of stock (veggie or fish) and ½ tin of chopped plum tomatoes.
- Season and stir round
- Then leave to cook on a medium heat (not bubbling rapidly) for 10 mins
- Then add in small chopped fresh or frozen Mediterranean vegetables
- Garnish with roasted pepper and lemon
- It may need stirring once or twice or it may need a little water to stop it drying out too much
- Season