Paella, Swedish Style
- 2 tablespoons onions
- 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 cup rice
- 2 cups water
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 12 teaspoon garlic powder
- 12 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 pinch saffron threads or 12 teaspoon turmeric
- 14 red pepper
- 14 green pepper
- 14-12 lb shrimp, cleaned
- 1 lb chicken
- 12 cup frozen peas
- black olives (to garnish)
- For the rice Pilaf:.
- Mince onion and in a medium saucepan with a tightly fitting lid, melt butter or heat oil.
- Add onion and rice.
- Stir and saute until rice is golden brown.
- Pour in water and salt and bring to a boil.
- Cover and cook over low heat 20 minutes, until rice is tender.
- For the Paella:.
- Cut chicken into small bite-sized pieces, clean, rinse, and slice pepper into strips and slice olives.
- Combine chicken, peppers, spices, and the prepared rice pilaf in a baking dish and place in a 350F oven for about 10 -20 minutes.
- When chicken is almost done, stir in shrimp and frozen peas.
- Return to oven for 5 minutes.
- Paella is done when shrimp is pink and peas are heated through.
onions, butter, rice, water, salt, garlic, black pepper, saffron, red pepper, green pepper, shrimp, chicken, frozen peas, black olives
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/paella-swedish-style-425545 (may not work)