
Nate’s Paella
Course Main Course
Servings 12 servings (feeds the family)
Equipment
- 22-inch diameter or larger paella pan, and a fire or burner to support it
Ingredients
- Olive oil
- ½ pound chicken thighs, sliced into bite-sized pieces, or wings
- ½ pound pork loin, sliced into ½-inch strips
- ½ pound chorizo
- ½ pound chopped pancetta or salt pork
- 2 large onions, diced
- 5–6 peeled garlic cloves
- Oregano
- Parsley
- 3 large bell peppers, diced
- 6–8 ounces tomato paste
- 1 can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 2 cups white wine
- 32 ounces short-grain Arborio rice
- 32–46 ounces chicken broth, or other kind of broth/stock
- ½ pound scallops or calamari
- ½ pound halibut, or other white fish
- 2 grams Spanish saffron in ½ cup water or broth
- 3 tablespoons smoked paprika
- 3 tablespoons sweet paprika
- 2 cups frozen green peas
- ½ pound shrimp, unpeeled
- ½ pound Manila clams, or mussels
- 5 lemons, sliced into quarters
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in skillet, add chicken, pork loin, and chorizo to brown. Add pancetta. Once pancetta is crisped, remove meat from pan, leaving oil.
- Add onions, garlic, oregano, parsley, and bell peppers to pan; cook until onion is slightly translucent. Move onions/peppers to edges of pan. To center of pan add tomato paste, allowing it to flatten, darken, and become fragrant. Next, add canned diced tomatoes and cooking wine.
- Stir and mix; make sure tomato paste is incorporated.
- Return chicken, pork, and pancetta to pan, and add rice. Cook rice until slightly translucent, 1–3 minutes. Add chicken broth (enough to almost completely cover rice). Then add scallops or calamari and halibut, cook 1–2 minutes.
- Add saffron water, smoked paprika, and sweet paprika. Stir in green peas. Stir pan gently until rice is evenly layered. Take shrimp and clams or mussels and layer on top, pushing down slightly so they have a nice broth bath. Let simmer until rice is cooked.
- Garnish with quartered lemons. Remove pan from heat. Put lid on and let lemons flavor all that steam in there for about 5 minutes before serving.
Keyword seafood



