Seafood rice (Arroz de Marisco)
During the weekend, we decided to cook something a bit more Portuguese, here's a delicious recipe that is not that hard to make, and luckily you can find all of the ingredients in Estonia!
This is basically a copy past from my friends' blog about cooking foreign foods in Estonia
If you're a seafood friend, Estonia isn't really your dream place to live. However there are some things you can cook that have this salty taste of distant horizons. This seafood rice recipe is one of them.Arroz de marisco ('r' in arroz is to pronounced like you're trying to cough out a fishbone that's stuck in your throat) is an easy to make dish that takes about 40 min to prepare.Ingredients:
1dl extra virgin olive oil
2 onions
3 bay leaves
3 gloves of garlic
40cm of 3cm diameter leeks
800 g (two cans/packs) smashed tomatoes, you can also use puree if you like it smoother
1 cup if rice
2 cups of water or fish stock
500g seafood cocktail (in big Rimi's they sell this frozen mix of baby octopus, shrimps, squid and mussels)
salt, pepper, optional: ground paprika the sweeter version and rosee pepperChop the onion and leeks
Heat the oil in medium high heat, throw in the bay leaves and the onions, cook until transparent
Add the chopped/smashed garlic
Add the leeks, cook for 5 min
Add the chopped tomatoes, salt (I put 2 small teaspoons), pepper and others if you're using, cook for 5min stirring if you have nothing else to do
Add the rice and the water, cook for 20 min
Add the frozen sea food, cook for 10 min
Timing is very important, so is stirring. Bellow is a short video
Let me know if you try it!
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by Joao Rei
You can use the same recipe for fish rice: cook the rice separately in sea water, and then use the same water to slowly add to the rice.
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