Easy rice with calamari, finger licking recipe
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Total: 45 min Diners: 3
I haven’t prepared a rice dish for a long time, and taking advantage of these days when the heat wave seems to have subsided a little I have prepared this rice with squid. which is finger-licking good and, by the way, I take the opportunity to tell you my little trick so that the squid in the rice are not like a rubber, because the cooking of these cephalopods has its intricacies and is that, if we spend too much time, they are like a chewing gum and it’s a shame.
Ingredients
Small squid or clean baby squid, 600 g green bell pepper, 1 roasted red bell pepper, 1 garlic, 1 clove tomato, 1 extra virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons fish stock, 2½ &½; 3 glasses (depending on the size of the squid).ndash; 3 glasses (depending on whether we want it more or less brothy) Arroz Brillante Sabroz, 1 glass Frozen peas, 1 glass Salt
Preparation of the easy rice with squid
1: Sauté the pepper
In a frying pan, paella pan or low casserole we heat the oil in which we will sauté the ajo<pressed garlic, the green pepper cut into brunoise and the squid fins and fins cut into pieces.
2: Finish the sofrito
When the green bell pepper starts to soften, add the roasted red pepper and the grated tomato without the skin. Sauté over moderate heat for about 8 to 10 minutes.
3: Cook the rice
When the sauce is ready, add the broth and the peas. Bring to a boil, add the Brillante Sabroz rice, lower the heat almost to the minimum -just enough to keep the chup chup– and let it cook for about 18 minutes until the rice is almost ready.
4: Add the squid
When the rice is almost ready, add the chopped squid, mix them well into the rice, remove from the heat, cover with a clean cloth and let stand for 5 minutes so that the squid cook with the heat of the rice.
5: Serve
Serve our rice with squid immediately. Optionally it can be accompanied by a good homemade aioli.
Notes
The squid are more beautiful if you remove the skin, but lose much flavor, so I always leave it. If you do not like the rice so pale it can be colored with a little paprika or turmeric, although if you are looking for a rice in which dominates the flavor of the squid is better to natural. If you do not like peas it is fine not to add them, but it is a good occasion to eat this legume. With three glasses of broth it is slightly brothy but without being a soup, a texture that goes great with seafood rice dishes, because you can’t imagine how delicious this broth tastes.
