PAELLA VALENCIANA

Here's Idol sa Kusina Recipe for EPISODE 3/JULY 17 - PAELLA VALENCIANA

Ingredients:

30 grms. bacon macedon
50 grms. brunoise white onion
30 grms. brunoise peeled garlic
100 nl. olive oil
100 grms. chicken chunks
100 grms. pork chunks
150 ml. tomato sauce
5 grms. paprika
5 grms. saffron
1 kg. calrose rice
200 grms. squid rings
10 pcs. mussels
3 100-gram pcs. crabs cut into 4
10 pcs. clams
10 pcs. shrimps with shell
50 grms. red and green bell pepper batonnets
1 50-gram pc. chorizo de bilbao
50 grms. blanched and frozen green peas
2 pcs. hard-boiled eggs cut into wedges
2 pcs. lemon wedges
10 pcs. asparagus spears
10 grms. bouquet of parsley

Procedure:

1. Over paella pan on open top burner, put bacon and stir from time to time for 3 minutes. Then add in onion, garlic, olive oil.

2. Sauté the chicken and pork. Add tomato sauce. Sprinkle with paprika, saffron, calrose rice. Then pour everything over the rice paella soup stock.

3. Allow to boil, then add the squid. Stir once then season with salt and pepper.

4. Reduce the flame, then arrange over the top of paella rice the mussels, clams, crabs, shrimps, red and green bell pepper, chorizo.

5. Cover with wax paper; then cover again with aluminum foil. Oven bake at 400˚F from 30 to 45 minutes or until done.

6. When done, garnish on top with hard-boiled egg, frozen peas, lemon or dayap, asparagus, boquet of parsley.

7. Before serving, drizzle with olive oil.

*PAELLA STOCK

Ingredients:

2 liters water
200 grms. shrimp heads
300 grms. chicken bones
300 grms. fish bones
300 grms. pork bones
1 tspn. egg yellow food color
300 grms. mirepoix