The ingredients of Paella.

Every tuesday we have cookery class, which is one of the most popular activity of the culture program. In the Cookery class our students learn how to make typical spanish food. Last tuesday 24 of the november the spanish course students learned how to prepare “paella”. “Paella” is a typical spanish dish that comes from the eastern coast, Valencian region. There are three types of “paella” : Valencian, Seafood and Mixed. Our students  at our school in Sevilla tried to make mixed paella, which is the one that I am gonna present you today.

To cook a really delicious “paella” you will need:

5 cups of rice.

1 kg of chicken

200 gr. of lean pork.

500 gr. of mussels.

250 gr. of prawns.

1 onion.

3 tomatoes.

1 pepper ( green or red )

2 carlic claves.

18 cups of vegetable broth.

½ class of oil: sunflower and olive.

1 spoon of saffron.

How to prepare it! we find this video: Spanish Seafood Paella, Maybe  this video can help you to cook our Seville Paella!!

1) To start, prepare the ingredients. Cut the Chicken and the pork into little pieces. Clean and open the mussels, remove the empty shells and reserve the broth . Cut the tomatoes into little pieces, do the same with onion and the carlic claves. Slice the pepper.
2) Pour the mixed oil ( sunflower and olive ) into the paella pan, the pan should be already put in the fire. Add salt when the oil is heated. Add the pieces of Chicken. When it starts to change the color add the pork pieces. Leave it to roast a littlebit. Add the mussels and prawns.

Make sure you add enough broth so that paella will not burn!

3) When its turned brown add the pepper, salt. And onion. Leave it to cook a littlebit and add the carlic and tomatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste. When it`s well cooked add the vegetable broth. Leave it to boil for 20 minutes on medium heat. Add the broth of the mussels and saffron. Taste it to be sure if it has enough salt.
4) Add the rice. Increase the fire. Leave it to cook on Strong fire for 5 minutes.Then leave it on a medium heat for 16 to 20 minutes. or until the rice is done.

It Should look dry, toasted but not burned. Remove it from the fire and leave it still for 5 minutes before serving. If you have too many liquid then you can leave it covered for a while so it can cook in the steam.

Making “paella is fun, simple and interesting, so invite your friends over and try out this recipe!

The spanish course students enjoying their selfmade "Paella".

Delicious "tortillas" cooked by the students.