Wednesday 14 August 2013

Cooking Paella in an English Teacher's Home. English Immersion Homestay

Many of my students  love to cook their favourite dishes from their country in my English kitchen.

                                             
                      This is Beatriz, cooking her mother's Paella.



The Spanish Recipe

Receta de paella de la mamá de Beatriz                                 
Ingredientes:
    Arroz tipo bomba ( una taza de café por persona)
    1 docena de gambas
    1 docena de almejas
    6  mejillones
    Calamar (1/4 de anillas de calamar)
    Medio pimiento verde
    1 zanahoria
    1 cebolla
    1 diente de ajo
    10 hebras de azafrán (o colorante alimentario)
    Aceite de oliva
    perejil
    Sal


Preparación de la paella:
  1. Sofreímos en una sartén con cinco cucharadas de aceite de oliva la cebolla cortada finamante, el pimiento verde y la zanahoria.
  2. Cuando esté dorada la cebolla añadimos el calamar, las gambas y los mejillones.
  3. Sazonamos y removemos para que se mezcle con las verduras.
  4. Añadimos el arroz y las hebras de azafrán. Sofreímos un par de minutos y añadimos un agua (el doble que de arroz) con el perejil y el diente majados. También, añadimos a la mezcla, media pastilla de caldo de pescado.
  5. Dejamos cocer a fuego medio unos 15 min.
  6. Si ves que tiene mucho caldo, sube el fuego al máximo y déjalo cocer a fuego fuerte un par de minutos para que se evapore un poco el caldo.
  7. Retiramos del fuego, y tapamos el arroz con un paño de cocina limpio y un poco humedecido y lo dejamos reposar unos minutos.

The English Recipe

 Beatriz ‘s Mum Paella Recipe
Ingredients
     Arborio rice (one cup  per person)
     12 raw prawns in shells
     12 clams in shells
     6 mussels
     Squid (1/4 of calamari rings)
     1medium green pepper
     1 carrot
     1 onion
     2 cloves garlic
     10 strands of saffron (or saffron dye)
     Olive oil
     parsley, salt


Preparation method
1.     Chop the vegetables (onion, carrot and green pepper) and fry them in a paella or big frying pan with five tablespoons of olive oil.
2.     When onion is lightly browned about 10 minutes, add the squid, prawns and mussels.
3.     Add salt and and stir the seafood with the vegetables.
4.     Add the rice and saffron. Fry a couple of minutes and add water (twice that of rice) mix with parsley and garlic. Also add half a fish stock cube.
5.     Then let it simmer over a medium heat, for 15 minutes.
6.     If it have much broth, turn up the heat to high and let it cook over high heat for a couple of minutes to evaporate some broth.
7.     Remove from heat, cover the rice with a clean slightly damp cloth and let it stand for a few minutes.



           I enjoyed watching Beatriz cooking.


She worked very hard.

Measuring

Chopping

Frying

Stirring

                                                                 

When the paella was ready she took it off the heat and let it rest for a while, under a damp cloth.

All the delicious flavouts from the seafood was absorbed by the rice.

After the paella had rested, Beatriz took it inti the dining room and served it up.









We ate it with a lovely glass of chilled Cava.




CHEERS !!!!









Thank you Beatriz and Beatriz's mum for such a delicious Paella.

On your intensive English immersion course you learn English with an English teacher in her home.



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