Healthy Mediterranean recipe for 4 people, takes only 35 mins; recipe has chicken stock, saffron, olive oil, garlic clove, prawn, squid, onion, celery stick, fennel seed, tomato puree, smoked paprika, paella rice, sherry, mussel, parsley and lemon.
Smoky paprika seafood rice
Course: Healthy Mediterranean
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 4 garlic cloves, 1 left whole, 3 finely chopped
- Olive Oil: 4 tbsp olive oil
- Onion: 1 onion, very finely chopped
- Smoked Paprika: 1 tsp smoked paprika (hot or sweet)
- Parsley: large handful parsley, roughly chopped
- Lemon: 1 lemon, cut into wedges, to serve
- Celery Stick: 2 celery sticks, very finely chopped
- Tomato Puree: 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Chicken Stock: 1.3l fish or chicken stock
- Prawn: 12 large prawns, shells on
- Saffron: large pinch of saffron (optional, see tip)
- Mussel: 300g fresh mussels, cleaned (discard any that are open)
- Squid: 4 baby squid (about 250g), cleaned and sliced
- Fennel Seed: 1 tsp fennel seeds, lightly crushed
- Sherry: 250ml fino sherry or dry white wine
- Paella Rice: 300g paella rice
Directions
- Heat the stock in a large saucepan. Add the saffron to infuse, if you like. Take off the heat and set aside. In a large deep-sided frying pan or paella pan, heat 1 tbsp of the oil. Smash the whole garlic clove and add to the oil. Throw in the prawns and cook for 2 mins until just turning pink but not cooked through. Push to one side of the pan and add the squid to the garlicky oil for 1 min or so, again just to colour. Remove the seafood to a plate.
- Add the remaining oil to the pan, and cook the onion and celery slowly for 15 mins until very soft and beginning to caramelise. Add the finely chopped garlic, the fennel seeds, tomato puree and paprika, and cook for 5 mins more. Meanwhile, bring the stock to a simmer. Add the rice to the pan with the onion mixture, give everything a good stir, then add the sherry and 1 litre of the hot stock. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 15 mins, shaking the pan from time to time.
- When the rice is almost cooked but still has a little bite, dot over the prawns, squid and the mussels. Add the cooking juices and the rest of the stock. Cover and cook for 5 mins until the seafood is cooked through, the mussels have opened and the rice is just tender. (You may have to add a splash more water if the rice looks dry.) Discard any mussels that haven't opened. Sprinkle over some chopped parsley and serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over.
