DT - Spanish paella22 November 2024 (by admin) |
This week, in DT, we learnt some useful cooking skills such as how to hold a knife correctly to chop vegetables and how to use a stove, before applying these skills to cook a tasty paella.
Here is a simple recipe if you want to make it home.
Ingredients
1 vegetable or chicken stock cube, 300ml
2 tbsp olive oil
100g chorizo
1 chicken breast
2 onions
2 garlic cloves
1 red pepper
1.5 tsp smoked paprika
125 paella rice
2 small tomatoes
50g frozen peas
flat-leaf parsley
saffron
Method:
- Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water
- Chop the chicken, keeping this separate from the vegetables
- Chop the chorizo.
- Add 2 tbsp of olive oil to the pan and turn it up to medium heat.
- Add the chicken and chorizo to the pan for approximately 3 minutes. The chicken should change to a white colour all over.
- Using a sharp knife, thinly cut the onion into slices.
- Crush the garlic cloves and slice them, peeling away the skin.
- Add the onions and garlic to the pan for 5 minutes until the garlic turns slightly translucent
- Carefully slice the peppers down the middle and remove the seeds with the knife.
- Add the peppers and the smoked paprika.
- Mix the vegetable stock cube with 300 ml of hot water and stir until it is dissolved/add saffron
- Pour in the vegetable stock and the rice.
- Let it simmer for 25 minutes
- Add the 50g of peas.
- Squeeze the lemon juice, add the parsley