Arroz Caldoso

Wet Rice with Seafood and Saffron

Preparation info
  • Racion

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish

Published 2007

  • About

Paella may be the world famous Spanish rice dish but it is not generally cooked in the family kitchen. It is cooked out in the open or ordered in a restaurant. Spanish homes are not large as a rule and domestic kitchens don’t have the burner size to attempt a proper paella. Instead they cook slightly soupier dishes — simply called arroz. I found myself explaining this particular version to the staff one day and was scratching my head trying to find an Australian comparison. ‘It’s fas