Greek Paella recipe - Greek Seafood Paella using Orzo by Theo Michaels
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Greek Seafood Paella Recipe
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A wonderful Greek spin on a traditional Spanish dish - Greek Orzo Paella. The secret ingredient being a shot of Ouzo which compliments the seafood wonderfully with the zesty flavours of anise.
Ingredients - Paella base
1 cup Orzo pasta
2-3 cups of chicken stock
Few glugs extra virgin olive oil
1/2 red onion diced
2 cloves garlic diced
Handful chopped fresh parsley
1/2 tin chopped tomatoes
1 tablespoon dried oregano
Ingredients - Seafood component
1 packet of mixed seafood
1/2 red onion diced
1 clove garlic diced
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 shot of Ouzo
1/2 handful fresh chopped parsley
Teaspoon chilli flakes
Method:
First make the paella base; start frying the red onion and then the garlic in olive oil for a few minutes. Then add the orzo pasta, mix and fry for another minute before adding the tinned chopped tomatoes and the dried oregano. Add one cup of chicken stock and reduce to a simmer, add more stock as needed until the orzo rice is cooked (you are looking for an al-dente texture and may need to add more water as the pasta cooks).
Meanwhile, as the orzo is simmering away start preparing the seafood component of the dish.
In another frying pan gently fry the red onion and garlic for a few minutes until soft and then add the seafood, turn the heat up, add the frozen peas and after a quick mix add the shot of Ouzo - be careful; if cooking over an open flame this will set flambe - just be calm and let the flame cook out in a minute or two. Season well, add the parsley and chilli flakes.
Once the base of the paella is cooked (and you can eat this as it is if you want a quick dinner one night) pour in the seafood mix ensuring you scrape in all the juices and stir the two together.
Garnish with a little more parsley, drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a little squeeze of lemon juice. Yummy!
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Theo Michaels That looks very good and very healthy.
Wonderful twist Theo, loved it. I made it with just calamari and added some feta in the orzo to melt.More like a calamari saganaki orzo.
Keep it up and nice to see you back.I hope you enjoyed your summer time
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I love this dish - Greek Seafood Paella with a secret ingredient to bring out the true Greek in anyone! Using Orzo pasta rice instead of the Arborio rice (that's not the secret ingredient!) this is an awesome dish. I've shown you how to make this dish in two stages incase you want a quick mid-week meal or want to go the whole Greek Paella way!
dear this is vinay from varanasi
we met in 2008
remember
What?? SInce when has Paella been Greek. Paella is from Spain not Cyrpus. That is like saying lets make a traditional Spanish Gyro!! Ridiculous!!
Joseph A greek paella!!! What is the world coming to??!! This is ubsurd!! What a lunatic!!
Hold on, we’re talking about me right?
It’s just a way to describe the dish, don’t worry about it. :)
Theo Michaels That looks very good and very healthy.