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Meri Spanish Paella is easy!
First you need to buy this pan!Paella Pan from Valencia (It needs to be imported from Valencia city).
It cost €20 approx. Paella can be Chicken paella, rabbit paella, veggie paella or my favourite seafood paella.

So, because I like mine’s I will explain mine (seafood paella):

Ingredients for 4 Persons

1 cuttlefish
Some mussels (previously cooked)
Some prawns (previously cooked)
1/2 red pepper
1 tin of passata (tomato puring)
165 grs. wide green bean ( spanish-bachoqueta)
130 grs. large white lima beans ( spanish-garrafon)

Rice

(This is important-no valid basmati or quick rice or whatever rice

NO! IT MUST TO BE RICE FROM VALENCIA!!!!!

Erm well can be rice to do risotto (but it isn’t the same!!!!!)

Water (From Valencia) or ( even better  fish broth)
olive oil ( enough to cover the bottom of the paella pan)
salt ( to taste)
1 Bay Leaf
1 level teaspoon of sweet red paprika and colorant

How to prepare it:

First you put the cuttlefish in small peaces and fry with lot of olive oil I use to put half glass of oil. (In the pan of course).
When is it fryed, you put the red pepper in small peaces and to passata (1 glass at least) and fry it!
Meanwhile you put in another pan the water or broth is better (approx 1 litre) and boil.
After that you put the green bean and the lima beans and move it all the time. 10 min later you put the rice. Be careful with that. 1 glass of rice per person. So if you are 4 people I will recommend 4 and a half glass. And put the hot water (all).
You will see, that the water covers all the rice. Don’t worry, the rice absorbs the water. (it needs to be cooked 20 min) Be careful with that. You have to move the rice all the time not to be sticky.
You put the colorant, paprika, the leaves and the salt now. While the rice is cooking, you put the prawns and the mussels. And after 20 min you see the rice has consistence. And you stop the fire and you put a tap to cover the paella.

And wait 5 min more.And taraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a quick and taste paella done!!!!

Meri Special Spanish Chorizo
Omelette!!!!
Spanish Omellette

First ingredient ...lots of love and dedication!!!

Ingredients!

4 Medium potatoes (Tesco or Asda) doesn't matter
1 big onion or 1 and 1/2 medium onion
4 eggs
Chorizo (I bougth the Revilla one from Tesco (it says Chorizo de pueblo picante)
sunflower oil (is cheaper than olive)
Salt
Antiadherent Pan (22 cm approx)

Explanation


Well first I Fried little pieces of chorizo in a pan with lot of oil to get the flavour (5-7min) small fire.
I take out the small pieces of chorizo and I eat it as my dinner!!!
You keep the oil in the pan
You cut the 4 potatoes in small pieces thin or small squares.
You cut the onion in small pieces as well and put all together in the pan (medium fire)
While is cooking you move the potatoes and onion for not to fry the potato, due we don't want fried potato we want like soft potato like potato pasta! (10-15min)
add new small pieces of chorizo as well sorry forgot!
When you think the potatoes is ready , put the potato and onion in a bowl andseparate the oil. So the oil you can use it for another omelette. Make sure to take out the most of the oil, but don't worry too much!
in other bowl put the eggs and move it.
Put the eggs in the potato bowl.And mix all with a fork and add salt (I am bad with that)
When it gets like a pasta... put the same pan again with any residual but not clean by water (use the little oil on there)
with high-medium fire put all the potato on there and move the pan to don't be sticky the omelette.(8 min)
When you think it is cooked down, put a plate up on the pan and turn and put the other side (not cooked) in the pan for cooking it.(5-7 min) more

And taraaaaaaa...that's it!!!!

Meri
Special
Albondigas!!!!
Albondigas

Ingredients!

1 kg beef/pork mince (Spanish if possible)
half garlic (spanish if possible)
rosemary
2 eggs
flour
1 red pepper (from Almeria please)
1 big onion
1 tomato sauce
olive oil (from Cordoba)
erm... erm... Dolmio Sauce (Mediterranean vegetables)
and some more dolmio
sauce.

and love!!

Explanation


Cut the garlic in very small peaces (take out the green stuff in the middle-it
makes you slowly digestions and smelly breath )
Mix it with the meat and rosemary and make balls. Size ping-pong balls!
Put the egg in a bowl and mix the balls with the egg and flour later in one pan put oil and fry a little the meatballs and when finish take out in another plate.
In other pan (a big one) we make the sauce... first fry onion sliced in small peaces and pepper in small peaces, be careful with the pepper! Don't burn it!
When onion is gold put the meatballs on that pan and put the tomato sauce (*)
in small fire...
put salt




and that's it!!!!!


Cut small peaces of bread and the meatball in the top like a tapa thing!!!





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