Seafood Paella

Ingredients

Rice……………...……....1 cup
Fish stock…..…...…….2 ¼ cups
Saffron……………....….A pinch
Onion……………....…...½ (large, chopped)
Tomato…………….......1 (chopped)
Garlic………………...….1 clove (large, chopped)
Green chilli……….......1 (slit vertically)
Chilli powder……....…½ tea spoon
Lime juice…….....….…1 tea spoon
Vinegar…………….......1 table spoon
Butter………………....…1 table spoon
Assorted seafood.......250g (containing mussels, squid, prawns)
Oil to cook
Salt to taste

Method

• Heat the fish stock and add the saffron. Do not boil.
• Melt butter in a pan and add the seafood and salt. Half cook them and remove them in a bowl.
• Use the same pan for the rest of the dish to avoid wasting the seafood flavours. Add oil in the pan and sauté the onion and garlic in it for 2 min.
• Add the tomato, green chilli and chilli powder and sauté them for 2 min.
• Now add the rice and mix to coat the rice with the flavours and then add the half cook seafood.
• Pour the fish stock and add the line juice, vinegar and salt to taste. Mix well.
• Let the rice cook until tender and read to eat.
• Garnish with parsley. Serve hot

Serves: 2

Note:

Avoid stirring the rice a lot while cooking as that will break the rice grains.