Seafood paella

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Cooking time: Less than 30 minutes

Cuisine: Spanish

Serves: 4

Type: Seafood

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Ingredients

18 mussels, scrubbed with beards removed
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 bay leaf
1¼ teaspoons ground paprika
2 green capsicums, seeded and chopped
4 tomatoes, chopped
3 cups fish stock
½ cup white wine
½ teaspoon saffron threads, soaked in 2 tablespoons hot water
2 cups medium-grain white rice
500g large prawns, peeled and de-veined with tails intact
300 firm white fish, cut into 2cm pieces
1 cup frozen peas

Preparation method

Place mussels and 1 cup water in a saucepan. Cover and bring to the boil on medium heat. Cook, shaking the pan, for 1-2 minutes, until mussels open.

Remove the mussels from the pan and reserve liquid.

Heat olive oil in a large frying pan on medium. Sauté onion and garlic for 2-3 minutes, until onion softens. Add bay leaf and paprika. Cook, stirring for 1 minute.

Mix tomatoes and capsicum, cook for 6-7 minutes, until capsicum softens. Blend in fish stock, wine, saffron with liquid and reserved mussel liquid. Bring to the boil.

Stir in rice and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook uncovered for 12 minutes without stirring. Stir in prawns and fish. Cook for another 6 minutes.

Sprinkle in the peas and add mussels. Remove pan from heat. Cover and stand for 10 minutes before serving.

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