Potato paella
8 June 2022 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI had a surprising degree of success with a 'potato paella'; I basically followed the recipe for 'chicken paella' in the local magazine, using the scraps of meat I managed to remember to salvage off the chicken carcases sold for stock at the market (I generally forget to take them out and scrape off the good bits once the meat is cooked, and simply boil the whole lot to jelly, edible scraps and all!)
Except that instead of adding rice to the onions softened in chorizo-flavoured oil, I added thinly-sliced new potato and red pepper with the turmeric and smoked paprika, and continued frying the vegetables for another 10 minutes or so, then added an old potato cut up into small cubes along with the chicken stock, lemon juices, olives, scraps of meat, etc. (I also added a handful of frozen peas at the last minute, when the stock had almost entirely reduced, which I gather is likewise deemed a cultural crime against the Catalans.)
It tasted very good, the potato being basically simply a vehicle for the flavouring -- provided you used paprika, chorizo and chicken stock it would probably come out much the same whatever form of starch was added!
Except that instead of adding rice to the onions softened in chorizo-flavoured oil, I added thinly-sliced new potato and red pepper with the turmeric and smoked paprika, and continued frying the vegetables for another 10 minutes or so, then added an old potato cut up into small cubes along with the chicken stock, lemon juices, olives, scraps of meat, etc. (I also added a handful of frozen peas at the last minute, when the stock had almost entirely reduced, which I gather is likewise deemed a cultural crime against the Catalans.)
It tasted very good, the potato being basically simply a vehicle for the flavouring -- provided you used paprika, chorizo and chicken stock it would probably come out much the same whatever form of starch was added!