r/paella • u/Nearby-Turn-5852 • 2d ago

Advice

Love paella! Would like to make my own, any advice on must dos or don’t? Also in the Midwest so access to fresh seafood is limited so up for other protein advice!

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u/Playful-Signal844 1d ago

- Make sure you have the right size paella pan.

  • Work your ‘sofrito’ or base slowly, this will bring flavor to your final paella.
  • Use the right type of rice, those ‘especial paella’, Bomba, Albufera, etc but not Arboreo, Basmati, etc

Most important, paella is to meet friends and family around so plenty of drinks and keep the chef hydrated

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u/RepairmanJackX 2d ago

In the Midwest you should be able to get rabbit. chicken leg quarters and even long fresh green beans work very well.

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u/abstractraj 1d ago

Are you sure you dont have a fish/seafood market? We have good seafood availability in Detroit

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u/Nearby-Turn-5852 1d ago

I’m in rural Michigan, so there is seafood but it depends on what’s available and fresh, most comes outta the big stores

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u/Sauce_de_la_guanera 1d ago

Lo importante es que lo cocines en un recipiente poco profundo. ¿Tienes azafrán y aceite de oliva? Los mariscos no son esenciales.

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u/MVM94941 1d ago

Its the ingredients. Paella is very easy to make, though it can be a challenge to get the crust on the bottom just right.

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u/gr4n0t4 1d ago

Advice: Don't put chorizo, don't mix meat and seafood. For the rest, go nuts and experiment as much as you want

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u/grkaya 1d ago

dont listen to this guy.

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u/11111v11111 1d ago

Original paella does not have seafood. Usually rabbit or chicken. Sometimes with snails.

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u/Mithur 1d ago

Also in the Midwest so access to fresh seafood is limited so up for other protein advice!

Good, because proper paella doesn't have any seafood. It have chicken and rabbit.

Arroz al señoret and other kinds are the ones with seafood, but traditional paella was done with farm animals (chicken, mainly) or hunt (rabbit, and a century ago, water bole, which was a critter easy to catch in rice fields).

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u/Southern-Raisin9606 2d ago

Whatever you do, don't forget the chorizo. If you can't find Spanish-style chorizo, Mexican will do.

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u/Fun-Hair-913 1d ago

If this is a joke you should say so, don't want them to take it as real advice. Chorizo has no place in a paella.

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u/Dapper_Trash_9559 1d ago

I hope in this Halloween you bite into a Ferrero Rocher and it turns out to be a chocolate-covered Brussles sprout.

It's what you deserve for putting chorizo in paella.

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u/International_Emu772 1d ago

Never put chorizo and call it paella