Shellfish Paella Risotto Recipes

PAELLA I

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in paella pan over medium heat. Add onion, garlic and pepper; cook and stir for a few minutes. Add chorizo sausage, diced chicken, and rice; cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in 3 1/2 cups stock, wine, thyme leaves, and saffron. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, and simmer for 15 minutes; stir occasionally.
• Taste the rice, and check to see if it is cooked. If the rice is uncooked, stir in 1/2 cup more stock. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally. Stir in additional stock if necessary: use up to 2 cups additional stock, 5 cups total. Cook until rice is done.
• Stir in squid, tomatoes, and peas. Cook for 2 minutes. Arrange prawns and mussels on top. Cover with foil, and leave for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Remove the foil, and scatter parsley over the food. Serve in paella pan, garnished with lemon wedges.

SEAFOOD PAELLA

Steps:

• Peel and de-vein the prawns, reserving the heads and shells. Return the prawns to the fridge.
• To make the stock, heat the oil in a large pan over a medium-high heat and add the onion, tomatoes, garlic, and reserved prawn shells and heads. Cook for 3-4 mins, then pour in 2 litres of water and add the stock cube and star anise. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 30 mins. Leave to cool slightly, then whizz in batches in a blender or food processor. Strain through a fine sieve.
• Heat the oil in a large paella pan or an extra-large frying pan. Brown the monkfish for a few mins each side, then remove and set aside. Add the onion and fry for 4-5 mins until softened.
• Stir in the rice and cook for 30 secs to toast. Add the garlic, paprika, cayenne (if using) and saffron, cook for another 30 secs, then stir in the tomatoes and 1.5 litres of the fish stock. Bring to the boil, then turn down to a simmer and cook, stirring, for about 10 mins (the rice should still be al dente). Return the monkfish to the pan with the prawns, mussels, peas and broad beans.
• Cover the pan with a large baking tray, or foil, and cook on a low heat for another 10-15 mins until the mussels are open and the prawns are cooked through. Scatter over the parsley before serving.

AUTHENTIC SEAFOOD PAELLA

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet or paella pan over high heat. Cook and stir onion, tomato, salt, and smoked paprika into the hot oil until softened, about 3 minutes. Add romano beans, butter beans, and rice; cook and stir until rice is coated with oil, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Place shrimp, mussels, and clams over the top of the rice mixture. Pour in white wine and seafood stock; sprinkle in saffron threads and rosemary. Bring mixture to a simmer. Turn shellfish and continue to cook until clams and mussels have opened, and shrimp are pink and cooked through, about 5 minutes. Remove clams, mussels, and shrimp and set aside.
• Stir peas into the paella; simmer, uncovered, until rice is tender and has absorbed the liquid, 20 to 25 minutes. Stir in squid, and return clams, mussels, and shrimp to the pan. Cook until squid is opaque and cooked through, 2 to 3 more minutes. Serve with lemon wedges and chopped parsley.

EASY PAELLA

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan or wok. Add the onion and soften for 5 mins.
• Add the smoked paprika, thyme and paella rice, stir for 1 min, then splash in the sherry, if using. Once evaporated, stir in the chopped tomatoes and chicken stock.
• Season and cook, uncovered, for about 15 mins, stirring now and again until the rice is almost tender and still surrounded with some liquid.
• Stir in the seafood mix and cover with a lid. Simmer for 5 mins, or until the seafood is cooked through and the rice is tender. Squeeze over the lemon juice, scatter over the parsley and serve with the 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.

SEAFOOD PAELLA (RISOTTO)

Steps:

• Sautee garlic in olive oil until tender. Add Arborio rice and stir to coat. Crumble in saffron threads and add wine. When wine is absorbed, add one cup of stock and sausage. When stock is absorbed, add clams and fish to rice mixture and add one cup stock. Continue to add stock one cup at a time as liquid is absorbed. When you have about 2 cups of reserve liquid left, add shrimp and muscles to rice mixture and then add another cup of stock. If necessary, add final cup of stock. When rice and shrimp are cooked, and clams and muscles are open, recipe is done.

SHELLFISH AND CHORIZO PAELLA WITH SAFFRON AND SQUID INK RICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Place tomatoes in a small baking dish and drizzle with the honey and 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and roast until soft. Set aside.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Add the lobsters and cover the pot. Bring the water back to the boil, reduce the heat, and continue cooking for 12 to 15 minutes or until cooked through. Let cool and remove meat. Leave claws whole, cut body meat into large dice.
• Cook the chorizo in a medium saute pan over medium-high heat until browned. Remove the chorizo to a plate lined with paper towels.
• Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large saute pan or paella pan until almost smoking. Season the shrimp with salt and pepper and saute for 1 minute. Season the squid with salt and pepper, to taste and add to the pan. Continue cooking an additional 2 to 3 minutes until just cooked through. Add both of the rices, stock, peas, tomatoes, lobsters, and chorizo and stir to combine. Place the mussels and clams in a pot with a cup of water; cover the pot and cook until the clams and mussels open. Add the clams and mussels to the rice. Fold in the parsley and lemon aioli and mix until combined, season with salt and pepper, to taste. Serve immediately.
• Heat the olive oil and butter in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onions and cook until soft. Add the rice and stir to coat. Bring stock to a simmer. Add the saffron to the simmering stock and let cook for 1 minute. Add the hot stock to the rice and let come to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover the pan and let cook to 15 to 18 minutes, remove cover and fluff with fork.
• Heat the olive oil and butter in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onions and cook until soft. Add the rice and stir to coat. Add the squid ink to the simmering stock and let cook for 1 minute. Add the hot stock to the rice and let come to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover the pan and let cook for 15 to 18 minutes, remove cover and fluff with fork
• Place the garlic, salt, yolks, lemon juice, and zest in a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Slowly add the oil, drop by drop at first, until thickened. Season with white pepper, to taste. Refrigerate until ready to use.

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.

PAELLA

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine the broth, rice, onion, half of the garlic, salt, turmeric, pepper and bay leaf; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until rice is tender. , Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute the green pepper, onions, parsley, thyme, hot pepper sauce and remaining garlic in oil for 2 minutes. Add mushrooms. Cook until green pepper is crisp-tender. Add tomato and peas; heat through. , Discard bay leaf; add rice mixture to vegetable mixture and keep warm. In a nonstick skillet, cook and stir shrimp in lemon juice for 2 minutes. Add chicken; cook until chicken is no longer pink and shrimp has turned pink, about 3-5 minutes. Add to rice mixture; toss.

SHELLFISH PAELLA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200C).
• Steam clams, mussels and shrimp in boiling salted water for 3 minutes; remove from water and set aside.
• Discard any unopened clams or mussels.
• Baste Lobster tails with butter.
• Wrap Lobster tails and Crab Claws in aluminum foil and bake 15 minutes in preheated oven.
• In a large paella pan, or heavy skillet, saute green peppers, onions, tomatoes and garlic until tender.
• Blend in saffron,salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes.
• Add rice and stir fry for 2 or 3 minutes.
• Pour in broth and wine; simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add peas.
• Cover and cook for 15 minutes.
• Stir once or twice to be sure liquid has been absorbed by the rice.
• Place shrimp, lobster, stone crab, clams and mussels on top.
• Cover and warm an additional 10 minutes.
• Transfer to large serving platter or bowl.
• Garnish with roasted red peppers.