Classic Paella

Are you interested in Spanish cuisine? Then this recipe is for you! Very tasty and delicious food - rice with seafood called paella! Since I am a big connoisseur of fish and everything related to seafood, I just love such dishes. They contain a lot of high-quality protein, minerals, vitamins and amino acids, which should not be neglected by people who monitor their health.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 50 % 12 g
Fats 13 % 3 g
Carbohydrates 38 % 9 g
119 kcal
GI: 22 / 78 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 1 h 15 min

To prepare a classic paella, you need to cook seafood:
- fry the shrimps and mussels in half olive oil (their color will indicate the readiness of the shrimps - they should change it to a nice orange, and the mussels will be ready after they open);
- after putting the fried seafood on a plate, we send the octopus, previously cut into pieces, into a frying pan and fry until dark.

Prepare vegetables:
- cut red and green peppers into cubes, as well as onions and chop parsley at the same time;
- fry the vegetables in the remaining olive oil with the addition of garlic for about 2-3 minutes;
- add wine to the finished vegetables and, stirring, let the excess liquid evaporate.

Now the most interesting thing:
- put the fried octopus in the wine-vegetable mixture, add rice and saffron, keep on low heat until the rice absorbs all the liquid;
- now add tomato paste, small shrimp and scallops, salt, mix.

It's time to transfer all the contents of the frying pan into a cauldron with a side or any other dishes suitable for baking. On top we solemnly spread large shrimps, mussels and tomatoes (you can cherry) and, pouring all this beauty with broth, we send it to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.

Bake the paella for about 20 minutes. If during this time all the water does not evaporate, we put the cauldron on fire and evaporate the remaining moisture.

After 5 minutes, you can serve the dish on the table, garnished with lime (or lemon) slices.

Pamper your family and friends for health!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Canned shrimp - 81   kcal/100g
  • Boiled shrimp - 95   kcal/100g
  • Shrimps peeled frozen - 60   kcal/100g
  • Fresh shrimp - 97   kcal/100g
  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Saffron - 310   kcal/100g
  • White wine - 78   kcal/100g
  • Lime - 16   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Fried mussels - 59   kcal/100g
  • Boiled mussels - 50   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Octopus - 164   kcal/100g
  • Scallop - 88   kcal/100g
  • Round rice - 330   kcal/100g
  • Fish broth - 49   kcal/100g

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