Healthy paella recipe

Last week we presented an original version of a spanish classic recipe as gazpacho and it’s the turn of paella today. Try to prepare this healthy paella recipe in which vegetables are as importante as rice. Let’s start!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of half-cooked brown rice
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 small sweet potato
• 1 courgette
• 10 peas
• ½ small head of broccoli

Salmoreta Sauce Ingredients:

• 2 dried peppers (ñoras)
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tomato
• Parsley
• Olive oil

Vegetable stock Ingredients:

• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 leek
• 1 stick of celery
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 sheet of kombu
• 1 tbs sweet paprika

Preparation:

1. Stock:

Boil all the ingredients together for 30 minutes. Keep for later.

2. Salmorreta Sauce:

Crush the garlic cloves, then gently fry in 2 tbs of olive oil.

Cut the dried peppers into pieces, remove the seeds and fry gently with the garlic.

Add the grated tomato and cook together for 5 minutes.

Add 30 grs of parsley and blend the sauce.

Add the sauce to the vegetable stock.

3. Prepare the paella:

Cut all the vegetables in little cubes and fry them in a large pan with 2 tbs of olive oil in this order: onion, carrot, sweet potato. Add the rice and cover with the broth.

Cook for 15 minutes over low heat. Add the courgette, broccoli and sugar snap peas after 5-7 minutes of cooking.
Once ready, leave it for some minutes before serving.