A "simply" Spanish paella
MIXED RICE
Ingredients:
A) Sofrito´s ingredients: Fried sauce
- olive oil
- ½ onion
- Garlic (two cloves)
- One small green pepper
- A piece of red pepper
- One tomato
- salt
B) Main ingredients (some of them are optional ok)
- rice (two fists for each person)
- water ( pour double of water than rice)
- Chicken breast
- Some mussels
- Some clams (optional)
- Calamari( optional)
- Some prawns
- A bit of groung saffron
- A cube of Avecrem to add flavour (optional)
- A can of sweet pepper
- Some beer (optional)
- Some white wine (optional)
- Some drops of soy sauce (optional)
- Some drops of Tabasco (it´s a spice sauce but optional)
THE RECIPE
A) Cooking the “Sofrito”
1) Pour some olive oil in a frying pan. Cut the onion and the cloves of garlic into small pieces and put them in the frying pan.
2) Cut the green pepper, the red one and the tomatoe and put all in the frying pan.
3) Add some salt.
4) When the “Sofrito” is pouched, beat it in a mixer and pour the mix in a bigger frying pan, adding some water. (This is the frying pan where you´ll have to put the rest of the ingredients)
B) Getting Ready the meat and the seafood:
B.1) The meat
1) boil or cook chicken´s breats with some salt (cut in small pieces). Don´t forget to remove the fat.
Optional: when the meat is fat free, you can put it in a sauce pan and move it with a bit of white wine.
B.2) Seafood
In the case, the seafood is not boiled yet, cook it with a bito f salt. Then you can remove their shells if you want but you have to peel the prawns.
C) Getting ready the rice:
1) Let “Sofrito” boils and add some ground saffron to put some colour.
2) Add the rice and move it a bit, then add the water (remember double quantity of water than rice)
3) Add the meat and seafood excepting the prawns.
4) Let it cook for 20 minutes at a medium heat , while you move it but Orly a bit, Only to avoid the rice sticks itself. You have to pay attetion because you´ll probably have to pour much water.
5) While the rice is cooking itself, you can add some beer, some props. Of tabasco, some drops of soy sauce, and the cube of avecrem (but all these ingredients are optional) Perhaps you feel like adding only two of them. (My father adds all he finds in the kitchen)
6) Don´t forget to add some salt after tasting it.
7) When the rice is about five minutes to get ready, add the prawns and the sweet pepper (this latter, cut in slices)
And finally, move the frying pan away the fire and let the rice to rest for 10 minutes. You can cover it with a lid or with a clean cloth.
Enjoy yourself and if you have any doubt, ask my father. lol