Paella Style Shellfish Pasta Recipes

PAELLA

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken pieces evenly with salt and 18 turns of pepper. Pat in seasoning with your hands. Heat oil in a large deep saucepan over high heat. Add chicken and sear until brown on all sides, about 4 minutes. Add onions, bell peppers, celery, garlic, sausage and rice and stir-fry 2 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, Worcestershire, hot sauce, bay leaves, Creole seasoning and saffron and simmer 1 minute. Add stock, stir well and bring to a boil. Cover and cook 4 minutes.
• Add lobster, tucking pieces into rice, cover and cook 4 minutes. Add clams, cover and cook 4 minutes. Add mussels and shrimp, cover and cook until rice is tender and shellfish are opened, about 3 minutes. Discard any mussels or clams that have not opened.
• Remove bay leaves and serve in large shallow bowls. Place empty bowls on table for shells.

PAELLA-STYLE SHELLFISH PASTA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• In a saucepan bring broth and wine to a boil and stir in saffron. Keep mixture at a simmer. In a heavy ovenproof skillet measuring 8 inches across the bottom heat oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté uncooked pasta, stirring, until golden, about 2 minutes. Pour simmering broth mixture over pasta and simmer 5 minutes.
• Nestle shellfish and artichoke hearts into pasta and bake, uncovered, in middle of oven until liquid is reduced to a syrupy glaze (pasta should be tender but crisp on top), about 20 minutes.
• Sprinkle pasta with chives.
• Serves 2.

PAELLA-STYLE SHELLFISH PASTA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• In a saucepan bring broth and wine to a boil and stir in saffron. Keep mixture at a simmer. In a heavy ovenproof skillet measuring 8 inches across the bottom heat oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté uncooked pasta, stirring, until golden, about 2 minutes. Pour simmering broth mixture over pasta and simmer 5 minutes.
• Nestle shellfish and artichoke hearts into pasta and bake, uncovered, in middle of oven until liquid is reduced to a syrupy glaze (pasta should be tender but crisp on top), about 20 minutes.
• Sprinkle pasta with chives.

PAELLA INSPIRED SEAFOOD PASTA WITH A COGNAC CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt half of the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add half of the shallots and some of the paella spice blend. Add the cream and simmer for 5 minutes. Then add the cheese and half the garlic and whisk quickly until thick. Add a quarter of the seafood stock, the cognac and lemon zest to the sauce and let this reduce until thick and creamy. Add salt to taste.
• Soak the dried rice noodles in warm water to soften.
• Sprinkle the crab meat, shrimp and lobster with some paella spice blend and salt. Take some of your noodles and lay on a flat surface. Add a portion of crab meat, shrimp and lobster in the middle of the noodles and wrap them. Repeat steps for the "rice noodle bundles of seafood."
• Heat the oil in a heavy pot and deep fry the noodle bundles until golden, about 5 minutes. Remove from the oil, drain on paper towels and season with sea salt immediately.
• In a skillet add the remaining butter, garlic and shallots and cook over medium-high heat. Add the remaining seafood stock and the lemon juice. Add the mussels to the broth and steam until opened.
• Place the fried seafood bundle in the middle of a bowl and spoon sauce around. Place mussels in each corner of the bowl (4 per serving). Garnish with chopped parsley.

PASTA PAELLA

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Break pasta into 3-4 lengths and drop into oil. Stir often until golden (6-8 minutes).
• Add onion, garlic and turmeric. Stir until onion is soft (3-4 minutes).
• Stir in broth and tomatoes, including the juice and bring to a boil over high heat.
• Spread the mixture evenly over the skillet and cover evenly with the artichokes hearts and clams.
• Cover, reduce to medium heat and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add shrimp, fish, and peas evenly over pasta. Cover and cook until clams have opened and fish is opaque at the center (5-8 minutes longer).
• Uncover and cook until pasta has absorbed most of the liquid and is beginning to brown on the bottom (2-4 minutes). Add salt to taste.
• Garnish with lemon wedges.

QUICK SHELLFISH PAELLA

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Peel the tomatoes and cut them in half. Squeeze them to extract the seeds. Cut into 1/2-inch chunks and set aside.
• Heat the olive oil in a casserole or large saucepan. Add the onions, celery and garlic. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Do not brown. Add the tomatoes, saffron, pepper flakes, bay leaf and thyme. Cook, stirring, 5 minutes or until the moisture from the vegetables has evaporated.
• Add the rice and mix thoroughly. Add the clam juice, Ricard and wine. Add the clams, salt and pepper. Stir well. Bring to a boil, cover and put in the oven. Bake 20 minutes.
• Add the shrimp, cover and bake 5 minutes. Do not overcook. Remove from the oven and mix in the shrimp with a fork. Remove the bay leaf.
• Sprinkle with the parsley and serve immediately.

SHELLFISH PAELLA RISOTTO

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add chopped onion and cook until almost tender, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add sausage meat. Cook until sausage is no longer pink, breaking up with fork, about 5 minutes. Add clams and mussels. Increase heat to medium-high, cover and cook until shells open, about 5 minutes. Transfer clams and mussels to medium bowl, discarding any that do not open. Cover shellfish and keep warm.
• Meanwhile, combine clam juice and saffron threads in small saucepan; bring mixture to simmer. Reduce heat to low; keep warm.
• Add arborio rice to same saucepan that clams and mussels were cooked in and stir 2 minutes over medium heat. Add dry white wine and cook until wine is evaporated, stirring constantly, about 3 minutes. Add warm clam juice mixture and simmer until rice is just tender and liquid is creamy, stirring frequently, about 20 minutes.
• Mix shrimp, peas and chopped tomatoes into risotto and cook until shrimp are just cooked through, stirring frequently, about 3 minutes. Season risotto to taste with salt and pepper. Top risotto with clams and mussels and serve immediately.