New Vegetable Paella

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Lighter, Quicker, Better: Cooking for the Way We Eat Today

By Richard Sax and Marie Simmons

Published 2000

  • About

One fall, several of Spain’s leading chefs traveled to California’s Sonoma Valley, where they prepared their specialties. One of the most interesting improvisations, on a very traditional theme, was the vegetable paella devised by Gil Martinez Soto, chef at the Restaurante Virrey Palafox in El Burgo de Osma, near Madrid.

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