Seafood Paella

Hola, buenos dias!

It's a beginning of spring season now and soon there will be flowers popping up everywhere. The weather has been very good and pleasant over the past few days, winter almost over and no more ice in the car every morning. J'adore le printemps!

Alors, let's talk food now. Paella, Spain's most famous dish, a good food and colorful one dish meal that people want to eat a lot. I made this dish many time even during my holiday in my hometown and sure my family liked paella too.

There are many versions of paella recipe and this one is just a simple seafood paella or paella de marisco which is contains a mix of fish, squids, prawns, clams and mussels.

One big pan of paella for my big family in my hometown

SEAFOOD PAELLA

Recipe for 3-4 people
Ingredients:

1 onion, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 red bell pepper, sliced
2 cups grain rice, washed
4 cups water or chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, soaked with 1/4 cup water for 1-2 hours
1 tablespoon saffron powder
200g squids
200g prawns
200g fish
200g mix frozen seafood
1 cup frozen green peas
Salt to taste
Olive oil

METHOD:

- Heat little olive oil in paella pan or work and sauté onion until soft and add tomatoes.
- Add bell pepper and squids, stir for a few minutes.
- Add the rice, and stir thoroughly until the rice coat with other ingredients.
- Slowly pour water, saffron threads and saffron powder until all ingredients are all cover.
- Arrange the other seafoods and spreading out evenly around the pan. Salt to taste.
- Simmer in a medium heat, and once the rice is almost cooked, sprinkle peas over the top.
- When rice is cooked, remove from heat and let paella rest for a few minutes.
- Slice lemons and serve alongside paella.

Bon appétit!

Samosa and Spring Roll

Salut tout le monde,

About a years ago, I am watching one of the cooking program from local TV station that showing about making samosa by using feuille de brick or brick pastry. I am eager to know and even starting to see and buy them in supermarkets. Before, I just knew about egg roll wrappers that sold in Asia. I discovered the joys of feuilles de brick and it made a perfectly light and crispy samosas and spring rolls.

Since spring roll and samosa are my favorite snacks, I was hooked and since then I ended up by making these snacks using feuille de brick and to be honest I liked it.

SAMOSA

- For the samosa filling, I used the same recipe for curry puff filled with curry potato.
- How to make samosa at home, I suppose its easy to google or watch youtube and follow the step by step picture or video.

SPRING ROLL

- For the spring roll filling, I used exactly the same recipe for my spring roll  from the previous post.
- We eating spring roll like the real Vietnamese way, rolled up in lettuce and mint leaves and dipped with fish sauce or sweet chilli sauce. The tastes even better that way.
- For both samosa and spring roll, we can use whatever filling inside and whatever vegetables or meat we had at home.


Enjoy and bon appétit!