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Seafood Paella

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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 5 bacon slices chopped
  • 1 whole chicken - (3 1/2 lbs) cut into 8 pieces
  • Salt to taste
  • Freshly-ground black pepper to taste
  • 2 cups chopped onions - (abt 2 med)
  • 4 garlic cloves minced
  • 2 cups long-grain white rice
  • 1 jar roasted sliced pimientos - (7 oz) with juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed saffron threads
  • 2 cups bottled clam juice
  • 1 1/2 cups chicken stock (or canned low-salt chicken broth)
  • 1 pound large uncooked shrimp peeled, deveined
  • 1 pound cleaned squid bodies cut 1/2" rings
  • 1 dozen clams scrubbed
  • 1 dozen mussels scrubbed, debearded
  • 1 cup frozen green peas thawed
  • Lemon wedges

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Heat olive oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add chopped bacon and cook until fat is rendered, about 6 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer bacon to paper towels and drain. Set aside.

Sprinkle chicken pieces with salt and pepper. Add chicken to bacon drippings in pot and cook over medium heat until brown, about 7 minutes per side. Using tongs, remove chicken from pot.

Add chopped onions and garlic to pot and sauté until beginning to brown, scraping up any browned bits, about 10 minutes. Stir in rice, roasted pimientos with juices and saffron. Add clam juice and chicken stock to pot and bring mixture to simmer. Remove from heat.

Pour rice mixture into 15- by 10- by 2-inch glass baking dish. Arrange chicken, shrimp, squid, clams and mussels in rice mixture. Sprinkle with chopped bacon and peas. Cover with foil.

Bake paella until chicken is cooked through, clams and mussels open and rice is tender, about 45 minutes (discard any clams and mussels that do not open). Remove foil from baking dish. Let paella stand 10 minutes. Serve with lemon wedges.

This recipe yields 6 to 8 servings.

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