A good recipe, but the relish is too much

mpionus - August 27, 2007 01:10:59 PM PST

There are a lot of deep and complex flavors in this dish that each need their moment in the sun (and on your palette!). I would recommend ditching the olive relish entirely, as it just creates too many tastes and brings down the overall quality of the dish. Not to mention its removal alters the caloric cost of this dish by a sizable margin.

But mostly, it just comes down to the fact that the relish can (and will) overtake the flavors presented by the saffron and some of the shellfish.

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CALL IT WHAT YOU WISH....BUT ADD THIS!!!

mafranja - September 13, 2007 02:46:50 PM PST

Perhaps I\'m not the expert on this dish, but I can share with you a variation from both my Cuban mother and grandmothers and their grandmothers directly from Spain. Follow the basic recipe but skip the relish. Add half a tsp each of ground cumin, oregano and a bay leaf. Saute one sliced "chorizo" (dry Spanish sausage) with the garlic and onions to release the paprika inside. Then, towards the end, pour one room temperature bottle or can of your favorite beer after the rice starts to open up, but not yet finished (10 min. before done.) The beer burns off but adds another layer of flavor. Valencia style rice works great. The original paellas in southern Spain had rabbit, snails, pork, green string beans and whatever they could catch. Try it with just chicken some day. Definately always garnish with roasted red peppers and green peas. If you don\'t have saffron on hand, add a little tumeric or what my mom always has on hand is "bijol", a yellow coloring powder. Prepare this a few times and I bet you will make this YOUR signature dish for your family and friends.

Don\'t laugh, but I once met Rachel Ray in Florida and shared the beer trick with her and said she would try it also.

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Don

dknots2002 - September 13, 2007 02:46:12 PM PST

Not everyone knows what Paella is, and lots of people are afraid to try something they are not familiar with (especially Americans). If this is a good dish, it is a good dish no matter the name. I plan to try this recipie since I always wanted to know how to make Paella.

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It is a Paella

bolpito2007 - September 12, 2007 05:30:32 PM PST

What a joke...this is a Paella

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Spain is not Italia

Javi - October 1, 2009 02:39:31 PM PST

"Rissotto" is coocked in Italia, not in Spain.

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