Seafood Paella Recipe

Serves: 4 Save

Ingredients (34)

  • 1 pound jumbo shell-on shrimp
  • 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 shallot, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1 medium yellow onion, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1 carrot, roughly chopped
  • 2 celery ribs, roughly chopped
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 2 teaspoons pimentón dulce (smoked sweet Spanish paprika)
  • 1/4 cup dry white wine
  • 4 cups cold water
  • 4 black peppercorns
  • 5 sprigs fresh thyme
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
  • Fine salt to taste
  • 1 large egg
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 shishito pepper (or substitute your favorite small green pepper), stemmed and sautéed just enough to soften, optional
  • 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1 cup grapeseed or other neutral oil
  • 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
  • 1 medium yellow onion, finely diced
  • 1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and finely diced
  • 1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and finely diced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and finely diced
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons pimentón dulce (smoked sweet Spanish paprika)
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 pound cuttlefish, bodies cut into medium dice and tentacles halved
  • 1 cup (1/2 pound) Bomba rice
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • 1/2 pound small clams, scrubbed
  • 1/2 cup loosely packed fresh parsley leaves, minced (save the stems)

Directions

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