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Quick Seafood Paella

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Posted by: Eddie2sox Friday 16th February 2007, 12:03pm
Last edited 16/02/2007 12:03pm by Eddie2sox

A quick version of the Spanish dish using a bag of frozen seafood mixture!

Ingredients

1 tbsp sunflower oil

1 onion, finely chopped

1 red pepper, seeded and sliced

2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

230g can chopped tomatoes

1 tsp turmeric

300g long grain rice

1.3 litres vegetable stock (I used only 1 litre and it worked fine, I couldn't fit any more into the pan!)

450g bag frozen mixed seafood (prawns, mussels, squid rings), thawed

175g green beans, halved

1 lemon, cut into wedges (I forgot the lemon, doh)

Method

1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and cook the onion and pepper for 5 minutes until softened but not brown. Stir in the garlic, tomatoes and turmeric and cook for 1 minute more, stirring occasionally.

2. Tip in the rice and cook for 1 minute, stirring to coat the grains. Pour in the stock, stir well and bring to the boil, then simmer uncovered for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the rice is almost cooked and most of the stock has been absorbed.

3. Add the seafood and beans and cook for 3-4 minutes more. Serve straight from the pan with lemon wedges.

Takes 30 minutes; Serves 4

Per serving: 463 kcal; 32g protein; 75g carbohydrate; 6g fat; 1g saturated fat; 3g fibre; 0 added sugar; 1.91g salt.

You WILL need a very big pan for this, I had to reduce the amount of stock down from 1.3 litres, although it still turned out great and very tasty indeed! Anyone know where I can get hold of a really big non-stick frying pan?

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