Seafood Paella Filipino Style

Seafood Paella Filipino Style

Seafood Paella Filipino Style

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Virgin Olive Oil

300 grams glutinous rice

200 grams ordinary rice

Pinch saffron, soak in 2 Tablespoons hot water

1 head garlic, minced

1/2 cup chopped onions

1/2 cup chopped red tomatoes

2 Tablespoons tomato paste

1 cup red and green peppers strips

2 teaspoons paprika powder

2 cups chicken broth or plain water

1 piece Knorr chicken cube

1 Tablespoon salt

1 Tablespoon sugar

1/4 kilo big shrimps, cleaned and steamed

6 large blue crabs, cleaned and steamed

1/4 kilo squid, sliced into rings

1/2 kilo mussels, steamed and remove the half shells

1 hard boiled egg, sliced

Lemon wedges to serve

Saffron

Procedure:

Cook glutinous rice together with plain rice in your rice cooker as you would ordinary rice but less water is needed. Remember the rice will still be cooked with sauce. Fluff and set aside.

Sauté in olive oil the minced garlic, chopped onions and chopped tomatoes until mixture is mushy.

Add the tomato paste, paprika powder, Knorr chicken cube, saffron and 2 cups water. Cook until boiling while stirring. 

Add at this point the red and green peppers, all the cleaned seafoods steamed shrimps, steamed mussels, steamed crabs, mixing carefully to evenly coat them with sauce and cook further. Carefully remove some of the seafoods from the mixture and set aside for topping.

In the remaining sauce, add the cooked rice and mix to evenly color the rice with sauce. Continue cooking on medium heat stirring rice and sauce until mixture is dry and seafoods evenly distributed. 

Check for seasoning and adjust to your taste. Add some sugar to lessen the acidity of tomatoes. Turn off heat. 

Transfer Paella in a serving bowl and top with the reserved seafood. You may like to decorate it with slices of hardboiled eggs and cooked green peas.

Serve with lemon wedges or calamansi, our native lemon. 

Enjoy!

Seafood Paella 

A big bowl of Seafood Paella

A serving of Seafood Paella