Dutch oven paella
Savory recipes
Summer
1+ hour
Expert
Cocotte en fonte
Poêle
Prep time
35 minutes
Cooking time
55 minutes
Serves
6 people
A colorful and flavorful dish!
Method
- Peel and chop the onions and garlic, then wash, deseed, and cut the peppers into strips.
- Boil some water in a saucepan; immerse then peel, crush, and set aside the tomatoes.
- Brown the chicken thighs in some hot oil in your cast iron Dutch oven
- Set them aside, then sweat the onions, garlic, and peppers in the Dutch oven. Add the rice and cook until translucent, then add the saffron, crushed tomatoes, and Espelette pepper.
- Heat the stock then gradually pour it over the rice until it is absorbed
- Slice the chorizo, chop the chicken, then mix with the rice
- Place the mussels on the rice and cover for 3 minutes
- In a frying pan, sear the shrimp in a drizzle of olive oil but do not cook them all the way through
- In a second frying pan, sear the hake with the cuttlefish
- Arrange the fish and shellfish over the rice and finish cooking for 5 minutes in the oven
- Top with chopped parsley and serve immediately with lemon quarters
- Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 500 g (17.6 oz) short-grain rice for paella
- 50 cl (2 cups) chicken stock
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 onions
- 3 lemons
- 2 red and yellow peppers
- ½ chorizo
- 20 pink shrimp
- 500 g (17.6 oz) mussels
- 6 chicken thighs
- 300 g (10.6 oz) cuttlefish
- 500 g (17.6 oz) tomatoes
- 2 slices of hake
- A few strands of saffron
- Salt, pepper
- Flat-leaf parsley
- Espelette pepper
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