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The best easy seafood paella

The BEST easy seafood paella

The only paella recipe you need in your life!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Spanish
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 Spanish chorizo sausage (cubed)
  • 1 large onion (chopped)
  • 3 cloves garlic (chopped)
  • 1 red pepper (chopped)
  • 2 cups short grain rice
  • 1/2 can diced tomatoes (drained)
  • 4 cups chicken stock
  • pinch of saffron
  • pinch of salt
  • pinch of pepper
  • 1 lb peeled cooked shrimp (you can use whatever size you like)
  • 1 MSC certified lobster meat from one cooked lobster
  • 1/4 cup frozen green peas
  • bunch of parsley washed for garnish

Instructions
 

  • In your cast iron pan (on medium heat), add olive oil, chorizo sausage, onion, garlic and red pepper . Saute until onions starts to soften up.
  • Add short grain rice and stir until the rice turns a little translucent
  • Add diced tomatoes, chicken stock (1 cup at a time), saffron, salt and pepper and turn the heat to medium low.
  • Stir and let rice cook in the chicken stock. Once the chicken stocks evaporates, continue to add the rest of the chicken stock in (one cup at a time until finish)
  • Add cooked shrimp, lobster, and frozen green peas. Stir to combine.
  • Taste the paella to ensure it has enough seasoning. Adjust if necessary. Add parsley as garnish.
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