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Heart Healthy Paella
Ingredients:
- 1 Frying chicken
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Juice from ½ lemon
- 1 pound shrimp (frozen or fresh in shells)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- ½ cup chopped onion
- ½ cup chopped green pepper
- 1 tomato
- 2 cups rice
- 1 clove garlic
- Pinch saffron
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1 pound shelled peas (canned or frozen)
Optional:
Crab, lobster, mussels or other preferred sea food
What to do:
1. Cut up 1 frying chicken, cover with water, add ½ teaspoon salt and juice of ½ lemon
2. Simmer until the chicken is tender, reserve the water in which it is cooked
3. Boil the shrimp for 2 minutes in around 2 cups of water. Save the water and remove shells from shrimp (you can cheat with pre-cooked shrimp)
4. Heat 3 tablespoons of olive oil in heavy skillet
5. Add ½ cup chopped onion and ½ cup chopped green pepper and cook in skillet until brown
6. Cut tomato in small pieces and add to mixture in skillet
7. Add cooked chicken and continue to cook until chicken is brown
8. Add 2 cups raw rice
9. In a mortar mix 1 clove garlic, chopped, add pinch of saffron, and 1 tablespoon chopped parsley with 2 tablespoons chicken broth (juice from cooking chicken at start)
10. Add mortar mix ingredients to mixture in skillet and season with salt to taste
11. Add 5 cups combined fluid in which shrimp and chicken were originally cooked, and 1 pound peas
12. Boil for 10 minutes
13. Transfer to shallow baking dish in which paella will spread out to about 2 inches in depth and place in preheated oven at 400°F (200 degrees °C) for 10 minutes
14. Remove from oven, cover and allow to stand for 5 minutes before serving.
Serves 8, around 455 calories per serving