Paella Inspired Seafood Pasta with a Cognac Cream Sauce

Name: Paella Inspired Seafood Pasta with a Cognac Cream Sauce
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Spanish, European
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps butter; 4 Tbsps cognac; 6 servings Corn oil, for deep frying; 227 grams King crab meat; 6 servings Fresh parsley, chopped, for garnish; 2 cloves garlic, chopped; 237 milliliters heavy cream; 1 a lemon, juiced; 1 teaspoons lemon zest; 1 lobster tail, meat removed, shell discarded; 454 grams mussels; 177 milliliters grated Parmigiano-Reggiano; 1 pack rice noodles; 6 servings Fine sea salt; 296 milliliters seafood stock; 1 shallot, minced; 10 mediums shrimp, shells and tails removed; 2 Tbsps paella spice blend

Paellan Inspired Seafood Pasta with a Cognac Cream Sauce might be just the European recipe you are searching for. This main course has 357 calories, 22g of protein, and 24g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 28% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up lemon zest, sea salt, lobster tail, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the corn oil you could follow this main course with the Lemon Chiffon Cake With Raspberry Cream as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a pescatarian diet.

Instructions

Melt half of the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat.

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Add half of the shallots and some of the paella spice blend.

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Seasoning Mix

Shallot

Add the cream and simmer for 5 minutes. Then add the cheese and half the garlic and whisk quickly until thick.

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Cheese

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Cream

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Whisk

Add a quarter of the seafood stock, the cognac and lemon zest to the sauce and let this reduce until thick and creamy.

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Seafood Stock

Lemon Zest

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Sauce

Add salt to taste.

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Soak the dried rice noodles in warm water to soften.

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Sprinkle the crab meat, shrimp and lobster with some paella spice blend and salt. Take some of your noodles and lay on a flat surface.

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Add a portion of crab meat, shrimp and lobster in the middle of the noodles and wrap them. Repeat steps for the "rice noodle bundles of seafood."

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Heat the oil in a heavy pot and deep fry the noodle bundles until golden, about 5 minutes.

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Remove from the oil, drain on paper towels and season with sea salt immediately.

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Cooking Oil

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In a skillet add the remaining butter, garlic and shallots and cook over medium-high heat.

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Shallot

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Add the remaining seafood stock and the lemon juice.

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Seafood Stock

Lemon Juice

Add the mussels to the broth and steam until opened.

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Broth

Place the fried seafood bundle in the middle of a bowl and spoon sauce around.

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Sauce

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Place mussels in each corner of the bowl (4 per serving).

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Mussels

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Garnish with chopped parsley.

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Servings:

2Tbsps

butter 4Tbsps

cognac 6servings

Corn oil, for deep frying 227grams

King crab meat 6servings

Fresh parsley, chopped, for garnish 2cloves

garlic, chopped 237milliliters

heavy cream 1

a lemon, juiced 1teaspoons

lemon zest 1

lobster tail, meat removed, shell discarded 454grams

mussels 177milliliters

grated Parmigiano-Reggiano 1

pack rice noodles 6servings

Fine sea salt 296milliliters

seafood stock 1

shallot, minced 10mediums

shrimp, shells and tails removed 2Tbsps

paella spice blend

Recommended wine: Tempranillo, Albarino, Grenache

Spanish works really well with Tempranillo, Albarino, and Grenache. When pairing wine with Spanish dishes, why not follow the rule 'what grows together goes together'? We recommend albariño for white wine and garnachan and tempranillo for red. You could try Rabble Tempranillo. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.1 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 23 dollars per bottle.

Rabble Tempranillo

A classic Spanish grape variety from our sustainably grown vineyards in Paso Robles. If Don Quixote was a wine, this would be it—perfect with paella, stuffed red peppers and marinated mushrooms.Aromas of black plum, licorice and ripe fig. Lush flavors of blackberry pie, sarsaparilla and cigar box. Seductively rustic tannins on the finish.Aged for nine months in French and American oak barrels (27% new oak)