The fantastic mixed paella

The fantastic mixed paella

Paella Mixta, also known as mixed paella, is one of the most popular paellas, especially in coastal regions. It is often referred to as tourist paella because it contains both meat and fish.

Many people believe that paella should be made with either fish or meat only. This is certainly open to debate.

In any case, it tastes absolutely delicious and looks great with its seafood decoration. Besides, cooking is creativity.

In principle, it is prepared in a similar way to paella Valenciana.

Ingredients

Olive oil
Salt
1 small onion
4 cloves of garlic
1 red pepper
200 g chicken
200 g octopus
100 g peas or green beans
1 carrot
1 tomato
1 teaspoon sweet paprika powder
5-6 saffron threads
350 g short-grain rice
12 mussels
12 prawns
2 litres water
1 lemon

Info

Persons: 4
Preparation: approx. 1.5 hours
Difficulty level: easy

The preparation

Step 1:

Peel the onion and dice it together with half of the pepper. Cut the other half of the pepper into strips. Slice the carrot and dice the tomato. Peel the garlic. Quarter the lemon.

Step 2:

Cut the chicken and squid into strips.

Step 3:

Pour the olive oil into the paella pan, sprinkle in a little salt and heat.

Step 4:

Turn the heat down to medium and add the onion, garlic, diced pepper and carrot and fry until the onion is translucent.

Step 5:

Add the meat and squid and fry for approx. 10 minutes.

Step 6:

Then add the beans or peas with the tomato and paprika powder and fry for another 5 minutes. Stir frequently.

Step 7:

Then add the water, add the saffron and cook for approx. 25 minutes. Season to taste with salt.

Step 8:

Then sprinkle in the rice evenly and stir a little. Continue cooking until the rice is cooked and the water has boiled away.

Step 9:

In the meantime, cook the mussels (see recipe for Mejillones (mussels) ...).

Step 10:

Approximately 5 minutes before the end of the cooking time, garnish with the prawns, mussels, pepper strips and lemon.