Basic Paella
Paella can be made with any combination of meats, fish, seafood or just vegetables an old North Spanish classic is made with snails and rabbit.
Preparation time: 10 minutes Quantity: Serves 1 Cooking time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
60g/ 2 oz rice (paella or short grain)
1/2 red whole roasted pepper- sliced
1/2 small onion (chopped)
1 cloves garlic (crushed)
½ teaspoon paprika
pinch saffron
1/2 pint stock
1/4 tin chopped plum tomatoes
1/4 courgette (optional)
Method
- Sauté in olive oil the onions until soft
- Then stir in the garlic, courgette (op) 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 20 mins
- It may need stirring once or twice or it may need a little water to stop it drying out too much
- Season
- Place the roasted pepper slices on the top, and serve with wedges of lemon and chopped flat parsley