Spanish Food – Quick and Easy Paella Recipe

Take a trip to Spain without leaving your kitchen, here is a Spanish food recipe to make quick and easy Paella, which is a scrumptious dish of Spanish cuisine. There are many Spanish restaurants having a nice ambience for dinner in Singapore, where you can relish this dish; why not give it a try at home and feel the flavor.

Ingredients and preparations required

• Chicken thigh fillets – 600 g duly chopped
• Harissa (A Tunisian chili paste) – 2 teaspoons
• Grated lemon zest – from 1 lemon
• Smoked paprika – 2 teaspoons
• Finely chopped garlic cloves – 2 no.
• Onion – 1 piece, chopped
• Olive oil – 60 ml (¼ cup)
• Frozen peas – 120 g (1 cup)
• Calasparra or Arborio rice (short-grain rice) – 330 g (1 ½ cups)
• Dry white wine – 125 ml (½ cup)
• Chicken stock (Gluten-free) – 750 ml (3 cups)
• Black olives – ½ cup, duly pitted
• Roasted capsicum – 2 x 190 g, drained and chopped
• Flat leaf parsley – ¼ cup, chopped
• Lemon wedges for serving

Method of preparation

Step 1

Take the chicken, zest, harissa, garlic, paprika and oil in a bowl, mix them and place it in a refrigerator in order to marinate for fifteen minutes. Take a non stick pan and heat it on medium-high heat. Add the chicken mixture and cook for five minutes, stirring in between till it gets golden. Remove the chicken mixture and keep it aside.

Step 2

Take a little amount of oil in pan, add onion to it and cook on medium heat stirring in between for two to three minutes until it gets softened. Add rice to the onion and cook for another one minute till the rice gets well coated in the onion mixture.

Step 3

Now add the wine and allow it to bubble for some two to three minutes, then add the stock and make it to boil. Now add the chicken (that you had kept aside) into the pan mixture, season it and then allow slow cooking on simmer for about fifteen minutes. Keep stirring occasionally till the rice is almost cooked and most of the stock gets absorbed. Stir in capsicum, peas and olives. Cook for another two minutes till rice gets tender and all the stock gets absorbed. Stir through parsley. Switch off the burner. Your dish is ready to be served with lemon wedges.

Enjoy with friends and family the same taste that you’ve savored several times in a cozy dining place in Singapore.