I like paella but I don’t know how to do it, I never look for its recipe online until I saw this recipe that I found in my book Minute Meals. Well, the original one needs a lot of work, I mean more ingredients and longer cooking time. But lucky to found this Paella in a Flash recipe that will saved yourself some valuable time, fast and easy!

Anyway, second time I cooked it was just tonight, Darah cannot come to cook dinner for us so, I did the cooking. But I only made a dish that’s half of the total recipe, just enough for Daddy to finished because we got something in our mind, a Kare-Kare that I will be sharing next time! The recipe is for 4 servings. But last week, we cook it as is (but I added some red pepper slices), anyway, here are the ingredients and how to do it…

Ingredients:

4 large garlic cloves

1 can (14 ounces) diced tomatoes

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon dried red pepper flakes

2 tablespoons olive oil

4 ounces sliced dry chorizo or a package of sliced pepperoni

1 pound peeled and deveined large shrimp, patted dry

1 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

salt and pepper to taste

Method:

1. Smash the garlic cloves with the flat side of a large knife. Drain the diced tomatoes and reserve.

2. In a large deep nonstick skillet, cook the garlic and red pepper flakes in the olive oil over medium-high heat, stirring, just until the garlic begins to turn golden, about 2 minutes.

3. Stir in the chorizo or pepperoni and cook, tossing, until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes.

4. Add the shrimp. Sprinkle with the paprika, turmeric, a little salt and a good bit of pepper. Cook, tossing with 2 spoons, until the shrimp turn pink and are opaque in the thickest part, 2 to 3 minutes.

5. Add the tomatoes and bring just to a simmer. Remove from the heat. Taste for seasoning. Remove the garlic cloves,  if you like.

6. To serve the paella, spoon it over the top of rice and enjoy!

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You can serve this paella in a flash together with a rice, French rolls and a cucumber and ripe olive salad. For desserts, you can have fresh cherries with chocolate wafers. And it is now a gourmet meal.

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Paella is a party dish if ever there was one and this recipe is really something you can do in a flash…I think that I can do this next time we have party in the house!

Anyway, we all love it…Isabelle just like the shrimp and the squid, oh, yes, I forgot I added some squid since we have it and I just used pepperoni. CJ likes it. K said its tasty and just right. And I like it too!

Will be making this one again, that’s for sure! Hope you can try it and let me know how it goes!

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Have a great weekend, everyone!