Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Crockpot Paella

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, crockpot paella. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Crockpot Paella is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Crockpot Paella is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have crockpot paella using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Crockpot Paella:

1. Get olive oil
2. Make ready smoked streaky bacon
3. Prepare Chorizo sausage sliced
4. Make ready minced cloves garlic
5. Get onion thinly sliced
6. Prepare red pepper, seeded and sliced
7. Get chicken stock
8. Get saffron
9. Get tin of chopped tomatoes drained
10. Prepare Salt and pepper
11. Make ready boneless skinless chicken thighs or breasts
12. Prepare Paella rice, or basmati rice
13. Take raw unpeeled king prawns de-veined with legs removed
14. Make ready mussels
15. Get fresh (or canned) garden peas
16. Make ready chopped spring onion
17. Get Juice of half a lemon
18. Prepare flat leaf parsley chopped

Instructions to make Crockpot Paella:

1. Whilst preparing the ingredients turn the crockpot on to low setting. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the bacon and Chorizo. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes stirring occasionally then add the onion, garlic, and pepper. Increase the heat and add the stock, saffron and chopped tomatoes, bring to a simmer, season generously and transfer to the crockpot
2. Add the chicken thighs to the same pan and increase the heat. Cook for 6 to 7 minutes to brown on all sides and transfer to the crockpot. Add the rice to the frying pan and warming it up for a minute or so then transfer it to your crockpot. Cover and cook for about 6 to 8 hours until the chicken is no longer pink in the centre.
3. After about 5 hours, top up with a little extra water if required then add the shrimp on the mussels along with the peas and spring onions. Season, cover and continue to cook for another 45 minutes until the mussels open and the shrimp becomes pink, discard any muscles which do not open.
4. To serve, squeeze the juice of half a lemon over and spoon into bowls and garnish with the chopped flat leaf parsley
5. Make sure that you scrub the mussels well and remove the beard. Tap them gently to see if they will close if they don't close when tapped discard them also discard any that do not open after cooking

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