Quick Paella

Name: Quick Paella
Prep time: 29 min
Cook time: 29 min
Total time: 29 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Spanish, European
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper; 198 grams packages boil-in-bag brown rice (such as Uncle Bens); 411 grams no-salt-added diced tomatoes, undrained; 355 milliliters frozen shelled edamame; 24 mussels, scrubbed and debearded; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoons hot smoked paprika; 170 grams Spanish chorizo, thinly sliced; 355 milliliters water

Quick Paella might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe makes 4 servings with 551 calories, 28g of protein, and 26g of fat each. This recipe covers 33% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have chorizo, paprika, olive oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and dairy free diet. 1 person found this recipe to be scrumptious and satisfying. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 29 minutes.

Instructions

Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat.

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Add oil to pan; swirl to coat.

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Cooking Oil

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Add chorizo to pan; saut 1 minute or until lightly browned, stirring occasionally.

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Chorizo

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Remove rice from bags.

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Rice

Add rice to pan; saut 1 minute, stirring frequently. Stir in salt, paprika, and pepper; saut 30 seconds.

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Pepper

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Salt

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Add 1 1/2 cups water and tomatoes; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to medium, and simmer 10 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is almost absorbed.

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Rice

Stir in edamame. Nestle mussels into rice mixture. Cover and cook 4 minutes or until mussels open and liquid is absorbed.

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Mussels

Rice

Remove from heat. Discard any unopened mussels.

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Wine note: Think pink for paella. Crisp, dry Beckmen 2009 Purisima Mountain Vineyard Grenache Ros (Santa Ynez Valley, $1

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has vibrant red fruit and spice to cover the smoked paprika and chorizo. Great acidity keeps going with the tomatoes, and rich texture wraps around the mussels. --Sara Schneider

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Smoked Paprika

Tomato

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