THE PAELLA

Beautiful Presentation!! I love the "Star" Plaintains. I love the idea of a large paella (m)

I have made it a few times. The last time was using EPI's rec for Birthday Paella. I was not impressed. I seem to have better results with a simple, smaller chicken and rice dish, vs. the large paella.

I am very impressed. Have you ever seen those large giganic pans? The large ones can be used on the grill and the extra large one's have stands and can be hooked up to propane.

I always love the idea of hosting a large paella party!! It looks very impressive!

Looking forward to additional details!
Regards,
Barb

 
this was actually for 4...

the plate is about 12" Total length. i used 1-1/2 cups of rice plus sofritto and ~1/2 cup sausage.

the "plantains" are starfruit.

i used 1/4 pound each of mahi mahi, flounder and monkfish. also 3 langostino tails, a passle of crawdad tails and some scallop ceviche with just lime juice, salt and the leek-carrot-celery mix that i used for the sofritto. the other seafood all marinated in the chardonnay; but i added mesquite liquid smoke to the flounder, starfruit trimmings to the langostino, my own blackberry vinegar to the purple monk and nothing else to the mahi mahi. each was seasoned with sel gris.

they were sauteed individually in smart balance.

the marinades all went to steam the rice.

i've never done a tapas paella this small before, but the technique is the same for any size except that i usually add chicken and maybe wild mushrooms.

i was fairly liberal with the saffron.

the 12-year balvenie double wood (1st whiskey barrel then sherry) served admirably as my cooking wine.

 
Very impressive! I thought you cut plaintains into "stars"!! They look like tostones (sp) or (m)

plaintanos (sp) What a wonderful dinner!! I love the flavoring of sofrito!! Thanks for the inspiration.

Will be trying a new paella recipe soon!

Regards,
Barb

 
and here i thought you'd be swigging the single malt smileys/wink.gif your creation looks amazing, i want some!

 
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