Official CALVIN Chicken Paella Recipe
(as adapted from Juan Fullana, Valencia)
Ingredients:
Olive oil
1.5 kg chicken
3 tomatoes (peeled and sliced)
½ kg soaked white beans (large lima)
½ kg green beans (frozen ok)
spices (saffron, paprika, Rosemary and/or paella spice packet)
Paella pan (a pretty big one)
Cooking:
- Cook chicken in olive oil (paella pan level, heat not too high – flames a few mm high).
- Add a little salt per person (about 3 pinches ea. person).
- When chicken is mostly cooked, add tomatoes.
- When tomatoes are mostly dissolved, add wite beans, green beans, paprika (about 8 pinches), and water. Water should go to top of rivets in paella pan.
- Add Rosemary spice (a little).
- Boil a long time 30-45 minutes.
- Add paella spice
- When water has boiled to rivet bottom, add rice (2 pounds for the big pan) (1 ½ cups per person)
- Cook 12-13 minutes.
- Let cool for 5 minutes.