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“Mexican Style” Paella with Spicy Salsa

from COME DINE WITH ME AUSTRALIA

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Jennifer's entree recipe from Series 1 of Come Dine WIth Me Australia

Serves 4

Ingredients

3 chicken thighs
1 onion
1 green capsicum
4 cloves of garlic (chopped)
½ kg calamari
White rice (1 cup for each person)
10 clams
10 mussels
10 threads of saffron
10 prawns
1 lemon
1 bunch of parsley
3 frankfurt sausages
2 pieces of spanish chorizo
oil, salt & pepper

Mild salsa

5 dried chillies (chile ancho) you can substitute this chilli with red chillies
5 green chillies
2 cups water
1 ½ cup of peanuts
4 garlic
1/2 onion
oil, salt and pepper
½ cup of chicken broth

Hot salsa

20 “pasilla” chillies
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
2 cups vinegar
3 cloves
1 pinch of basil
1 pinch of oregano
1 laurel leave
1 cup olive oil
salt & pepper

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Method

Put oil in a pan and fry the chicken till browned
When it is “crunchy” add ½ onion, capsicum & 2 cloves of garlic, sausages & chorizo and stir for 5 minutes. When everything is fried, add calamari, keep stirring till all fried
Add 2 cups of water for each cup of rice and cook for 15 minutes (do not add rice yet) Add the saffron and stir
Boil with salt the clams and mussels add some oil & keep separate the water. (The water where you boiled the ingredients must be poured in the paella later).Add the rice.
When the rice is ½ cooked, add clams, mussels & prawns on top and squeeze ½ lemon
In a bowl chopped 2 garlic, parsley, pepper and add it to the rice
Put the prawns in the rice
When the rice is tender, turn off and cover it with an old –cotton t shirt.

Mild salsa

Sear the chillies with no seeds / veins for 10 mins on low flame. Put into hot water for 20 mins
Blend peanuts, garlic, onion and add the chillies
Place oil in pan and fry onion for 5 minutes add salt and stir 10 more minutes

Hot salsa

Sear the chillies, onion & garlic
In another pan, mix vinegar and the rest of the ingredients, cook for 20 minutes in low flame
Mix all the ingredients and strain it.

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Pat February 2010

Yes...Gail takes a back seat to you Jen...@ least she was nice !! Liked you @ first but then you got soooo bitchy ! Everyone was so good to you on your night too...helping you out in the kitchen...thought you'd woken up to yourself...but then came the last night and your were bitchier than ever !! Would have been easier to take if your food was good !

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DO3 January 2010

That paella what was that? I have never seen anything like it. Did'nt you say that you hated people who were stuck up and posh well what were you. Were you even at your dinner party at least everyone else marked you with some good points. All you did was complain how this is not good, I don't like. Your night was bad bad bad.

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annie31 January 2010

I have never seen paella cooked that way. Every TV chef and every recipe I have read always uses just the one pot to cook everything so that the flavours merge. Chorizzo, mussels & all seafood or meats are cooked in the paella paella pan as the juices add to the flavor of the rice but Jen cooked her separately. The above recipe says saffron threads but Jen used the cheap imitation saffron ground powder. There was no way that rice was going to be moist and tasty because the the pan was too small & not flat bottomed and there was not enough stock.

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- Robyn January 2010
  
  I agree with you annie31. My spanish friends have a proper paella pan and they say that it makes all the difference. You shouldnt make it too far ahead of time as it dries out - like Jennifers did. And serving with dry bread - YUK. How you beat Gail and Richard is a miracle and obviouisly a sympathy vote.
  
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Ses January 2010

sorry jen, but you were quite annoying to watch. Not only were you harsh on marking the others, your food looked disgusting (compared to everyone elses)

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