Recipes

Shellfish Paella

  • Serves

    serves 6

LUCA VIGNELLI

This recipe is for a real Valencian seafood paella—without any meat or chicken mixed in.

Ingredients

  • 14 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 6 jumbo shrimp, unpeeled
  • 12 medium shrimp, unpeeled
  • 3 medium tomatoes, seeded and grated
  • 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
  • 1 large pinch saffron threads
  • 1 tbsp. sweet paprika
  • 12 lb. fresh or frozen Italian-style broad green beans, cut in 2'' pieces
  • 1 cup dried white beans (such as white lima or butter beans), soaked overnight and drained
  • Salt
  • 3 cups Spanish paella rice or short-grain Italian rice
  • 12 mussels, scrubbed and debearded

Instructions

Step 1

Heat oil in a 16''–18'' paella pan or large skillet over medium heat. Pan will span two burners; rotate pan occasionally for even cooking. Add all shrimp, sauté for 5 minutes, then remove and set aside. Reduce heat to low, add tomatoes and garlic to oil in pan, and cook for 3–5 minutes.

Step 2

Toast saffron in a small skillet over medium heat for 1 minute; crumble into 12 cups water with paprika, then pour into pan. Add all beans, salt to taste, and simmer until reduced by half, about 45 minutes.

Step 3

Stir rice into pan, then add mussels and press down to submerge in liquid as much as possible. Increase heat to medium-high and cook, without stirring, until rice begins to swell, about 10 minutes. (Discard mussels that do not open.)

Step 4

Place shrimp on top of rice, reduce heat to low, and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, cover with a clean dish towel, and cool for 20 minutes. Serve from pan at room temperature.

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