Chicken Prawns Paella

Posted 2014-07-07 by chef@home ⇒ follow

Paella is a Spanish dish and it gets its name from the pan it is cooked in – a paellera. Lots of different ingredients can be added to paella, for this recipe I am using chicken & prawns.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 25 minutes
Makes: 4 servings

Ingredients
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 red pepper, diced
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 chicken breast, cut into strips
1 tsp paprika
200g long grain rice
3 tomatoes, de-seeded and cut into 1cm cubes
500 ml chicken stock
1 tbsp tomato puree
& #8531 ; tsp salt
75g peeled prawns
110g frozen peas
3 spring onions finely sliced

Method

Heat oil in a large frying pan. Sauté the onion, garlic and red pepper for 1 minute, then lower the heat and cook, covered, for about 10 minutes or until softened. Turn the heat up to high and cook the chicken strips for 2 to 3 minutes or until the chicken turns white.