Chicken & Chorizo Paella

Gosh I love a filling comforting bowl of rice stuffed full of flavour. This easy Chicken & chorizo paella recipe fits the bill perfectly!

It’s rammed with delicious chorizo flavour, soft tender chicken, sweet paprika and super delicious rice

The peas and peppers add sweetness and lovely textures to the whole dish.

Once you make it once I promise you’ll make it time again…

It also happens to be relatively healthy and VERY filling – so we are winning all round 🙂

So what actually is paella?

Source Wikipedia

Paella is a rice dish originally from Valencia.

For this reason, many non-Spaniards view it as Spain’s national dish, but Spaniards almost unanimously consider it to be a dish from the Valencian region.

Valencia’s, in turn, regard paella as one of their identifying symbols. It is one of the best-known dishes in Spanish cuisine.

The dish takes its name from the wide, shallow traditional pan used to cook the dish on an open fire, paellabeing the word for a frying pan in Valencia’s regional language.

As a dish, it may have ancient roots, but in its modern form it is traced back to the mid-19th century, in the rural area around the Albufera lagoon adjacent to the city of Valencia, on the east coast of Spain.

Traditionally people tend to think of paella as a seafood dish and some types are. However not this one

(I’m allergic to seafood however there is no reason you can’t throw some prawns in the dish too!)

So what is paella rice?

Well it’s a Spanish rice, actually called bomb rice which is perfect for paella as it’s short grained

The key to the perfect paella is the rice. It is important that you use short grain rice. Medium grain is acceptable, but long grain rice is simply not good for the correct consistancy

It is readily available in the supermarket and called paella rice

So what is Chorizo?

Well according to Wiki –

Chorizo is a type of pork sausage. In Europe, chorizo is a fermented, cured, smoked sausage, which may be sliced and eaten without cooking, or added as an ingredient to add flavor to other dishes.

Elsewhere, some sausages sold as chorizo may not be fermented and cured, and require cooking before eating.Wikipedia

I love cooking with chorizo – I love the flavour – delicious!

It’s quite fatty, however the great thing is it gives a lot of flavour to your dish, so you don’t have to use too much!!

How do you make Chicken & Chorizo paella?

We’ll is really super easy and doesn’t take much skill at all

See full method below in the recipe card:

Fry off the ingredients

Add the liquid (Look at that colour – it’s the paprika and saffron)

Cover and voila!

What should I serve with my Paella?

Paella is almost a dish on it’s own and you don’t really need anything further

However if you want to add some greens then how about a lovely big green salas and maybe some crusty bread?

(and a lovely glass of crisp white wine would go down a treat with this)

Jamies Chicken & Chorizo Paella recipe

If you like fish Jamie suggests adding prawn, muscles & clams etc

I’m not sureties recipe needs it and I’m allergic to prawns anyway

But if you fancy it – then why not. Jamies is rarely wrong 🙂

The Slimming Deets

All the ingredients except the chorizo are free

The chorizo is according to SW is 12 Syns for 100g – so I make that 3 syns per portion – if you are feeding 4

Or 6 syns for a bumper portion (half of this)

It’s seriously delicious and VERY filling

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Other tasty Morsels

If you love this dish then I really think you’d like my Peri Peri Chicken – also really easy and packed with flavour

I think you’d also like my lovely Easy Lemon Chicken too