*  Exported from  MasterCook  *

                                PAELLA #2

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Serving Size  : 4    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Spanish                          Main Dish
                Seafood

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   2       c            Basmati rice
   3       c            Water or chicken stock
                        Butter
   1       md           Carrot, diced
   1                    Stalk celery, diced
   1       lg           Onion
   8       oz           Shrimp, shelled and
                        -deveined
   1                    14-ounce can baby clams
   2       sm           Fillet turbot, sole, red
                        -snapper or trout cut
                        -into 1-inch chunks
   2                    Boneless, trimmed, skinned
                        -chicken breasts, cut into
                        -1-inch chunks
     1/2                Chorizo sausage, cut into
                        -small chunks
   1                    14-ounce can artichoke
                        -hearts, drained, rinsed
                        -and quartered
   1       md           Red pepper, cut in 1/2-inch
                        -strips
   4                    Cloves garlic, minced
     1/4   c            Lemon juice
   2       tb           Saffron
   2       oz           Madeira wine or sweet sherry
  32                    Mussels
   2                    Tomatoes, diced
  16                    Black olives pitted and
                        -halfed
                        Salt and pepper, to taste
                        Chopped parsley
   1       lg           Lemon, cut in 8 wedges

  In a large, deep, flat pan, put the rice and water or stock.  Cover
  and bake in a 350 degrees to 400 degrees oven until almost all the
  water is absorbed.

  In a sauté pan, melt the butter and sauté the diced carrot, celery and
  onion until the vegetables are soft and the onions are translucent.
  Remove from the heat and set aside.
  Remove the rice pan from the oven.  Mix in the sautéed vegetable, the
  shrimps, clams, fish fillets, chicken, sausages, artichoke hearts, red
  pepper strips and garlic.  Stir in the lemon juice, saffron and
  Madeira and arrange from the mussels around the outsided edge of the
  pan.

  Sprinkle the surface with the diced tomato and halved black olives,
  cover and return to the oven until the mussels open and the rice,
  fish and chicken are cooked through.  The rice should be dry, not
  mushy.

  Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve on large plates
  arranging the mussels around the edge of the plates.  Garnish with
  parsley and lemon wedges.
 
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