Paella with Seafood

Name: Paella with Seafood
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 1 h 18 min
Yield: For 4–6 people
Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 onion, finely sliced; 2 cloves garlic, finely sliced; 420 ml/¾ pint/2 cups hot fish stock or water; A large pinch of saffron strands, crushed in a mortar (optional); Salt and pepper; 3 large tomatoes, skinned and chopped; 3 cloves garlic, finely sliced; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups mussels, cleaned; 450 g/1 lb/2½ cups uncooked king prawns/jumbo shrimps, with or without heads, cleaned but not shelled; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups squid, cleaned and cut into small pieces; 450 g/1 lb/4 cups cod fillet, cut into cubes about 3 cm/1¼ inches square; 450 g/1 lb/2 cups Spanish or Italian short grain rice; 710 ml/1¼ pints/3 cups hot fish stock; Salt and pepper to taste; A large pinch of saffron strands, crushed in a mortar, or ½ tsp ground turmeric; 170–225 g/6–8 oz/1 cup flat green beans or runner beans, cut into 5-cm/2-inch pieces; 112 g/4 oz/1 cup fresh or reconstituted butter beans, or fresh broad beans/fava beans; 2 large tomatoes, skinned and chopped, or 2 tbsp tomato purée; ½ tsp cayenne pepper or chilli powder

Preparation info

For
4–6
people

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 20

Appears in

The Rice Book

By Sri Owen

Published 1993

About

For home cooking, I find I get best results by cooking the rice and seafood separately and combining them together just before I serve them. Doing it this way, however, you need a really good fish stock for the rice. You should still use your paella pan, if you have one, to cook the rice; otherwise, a casserole will do perfectly well.

Ingredients

For the Rice

2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, finely sliced
2 cloves garlic, fi

Spicy

Method

Start with the rice. Heat the oil in the paella pan or casserole and fry the shallots and garlic, stirring all the time, for 2–3 minutes. Add the rest of the rice ingredients, except the rice itself and the fish stock. Stir, and simmer for 3 minutes. Add the stock and simmer for 2 minutes, then bring the liquid fully to the boil and add the rice. Stir everything well together and spread the ric