Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Crockpot Paella

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, crockpot paella. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Crockpot Paella is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Crockpot Paella is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Crockpot Paella:

1. Get 4-6 tablespoons olive oil
2. Take 60 g smoked streaky bacon
3. Get 175 g Chorizo sausage sliced
4. Get 3 minced cloves garlic
5. Get 1 onion thinly sliced
6. Prepare 1 red pepper, seeded and sliced
7. Get 1 1/2 L chicken stock
8. Get 2 pinches saffron
9. Get 400 g tin of chopped tomatoes drained
10. Take to taste Salt and pepper
11. Take 900 g boneless skinless chicken thighs or breasts
12. Make ready 500 g Paella rice, or basmati rice
13. Get 450 g raw unpeeled king prawns de-veined with legs removed
14. Prepare 450 g mussels
15. Take 225 g fresh (or canned) garden peas
16. Prepare 1 tablespoon chopped spring onion
17. Make ready Juice of half a lemon
18. Prepare 1 bunch flat leaf parsley chopped

Steps 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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