Chicken And Seafood Rice

• 6 cups very strong chicken broth (preferably homemade)
• 1/2 teaspoon saffron
• 1 small onion,peeled
• 2 small chickens (about 2 1/2 pounds each)
• coarse salt
• 1/4 pound chorizo sausage, cut into 1/4 inch slices
• 1 large pork chop, boned and diced
• 1/4 pound piece cured ham, diced
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 4 scallions, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 pimientos, homemade or imported, diced
• 1 pound small or medium shrimp, shelled
• 2 live lobsters, split and divided into tail sections and claws (discard or keep the head and small claws) or 4 lobster tails, split lengthwise or 8 king crab claws or 8 jumbo shrimp in their shells
• 3 cups short-grain rice
• 5 tablespoons chopped parsley
• 2 bay leaves crumbled
• 1/2 cup dry white wine
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/4 pound fresh or frozen peas
• 18 clams, smallest available at room temperture scrubbed
• 18 small mussels scrubbed
• lemon wedges for garnish
• chopped parsley for garnish
• chop clams

1. Heat the broth with the saffron and the whole onion. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Remove the onion and measure the broth-you need exactly 5 1/2 cups. Cut the chicken into small serving pieces-the whole breast in 4 parts, each thigh into 2 parts, the bony tip of the leg chopped off, the wing tip discarded, and the rest of the wing separated into 2 parts. Dry the poeces well and sprinkle with salt. In a metal paella pan, with about a 15 inch base heat the oil. Add the chicken pieces and fry over high heat until golden. Remove to a warm platter. Add the chorizo pork and ham to the pan and stir fry about 10 minutes. Add the chopped onion scallions, garlic and piminetos and sauce until the onion is wilted. Add shrimp and the lobster and saute about 3 minutes more or until the shrimp and lobster barely turn pink (the lobster will cook more in the oven) Remove the shrimp and lobster to the platter with the chicken. Add the rice to the pan and stir to coat it well with the oil. Sprinkle in the 5 tablespoons chopped parsley and the crumbled bay leaves. make in advance up this point)
2. Stir in the chicken broth, boiling hot add the wine, lemon juiced and peas. Salt to taste. Bring to a boil and cook uncovered stirring occasionally, over medium-high heat about 10 minutes. Bury the shrimp and the chicken in the rice. Add the clams and the mussels, pushing them into the rice, with the edge that will open facing up. Decorate the paella with the lobster pieces, then bake at 325 degrees uncovered for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let it sit on top of the stove, lightly covered with foil, for about 10 minutes. To serve, decorate with lemon wedges and chopped parsley.

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/chicken-and-seafood-rice-50004178 (may not work)