Steps to Make Jamie Oliver Easy Chicken Paella

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, easy chicken paella. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Chicken Paella is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Easy Chicken Paella is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook easy chicken paella using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Chicken Paella:

1. Get paella
2. Take 1 pinch salt and pepper
3. Make ready 1 olive oil
4. Make ready 4 large boneless chicken breasts
5. Take 1 plain flour ( for dusting )
6. Prepare 500 grams paella rice (can use risotto rice)
7. Take 6 slice pancetta (or smokey bacon)
8. Take 100 grams chorizo
9. Get 1 onion - finely chopped
10. Make ready 4 garlic cloves chopped finely
11. Get 2 liter hot chicken stock
12. Make ready 1 tsp smoked paprika
13. Get 2 large pinches of saffron
14. Take 2 handfulls of fresh or frozen peas
15. Prepare 10 king prawns (optional, can use any seafood)

Instructions to make Easy Chicken Paella:

1. preheat oven to 190c or gas mark 5
2. season chicken breasts, lightly dust with flour
3. heat a large wok or paella pan with olive oil
4. brown the chicken breats in the pan
5. once all chicken breasts have been browned,place the chicken on a baking tray and place in the centre of the oven for 30 mins
6. whilst chicken is cooking in the oven, fry the chorizo and panchetta in the wok or pan until brown and crispy.
7. then add the garlic and onion, cook until soft
8. in the meantime, infuse half the stock with the saffron.
9. then add smoked paprika, the rice and the infused chicken stock to the pan. leave to cook for 20 mins on a medium heat. stir from time to time
10. after 20 minutes the rice should be nearly cooked. add the rest of the stock, along with peas, prawns and any seafood you are adding.
11. cook for a further 10 minutes.
12. take the chicken out of the oven, cut in to large chunks.
13. add the chicken to the pan and cook for another 5 minutes.
14. check the rice is fully cooked before serving, enjoy!

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