1 Spanish onion diced
3 cups arborio
½ cup white wine
20 threads saffron
Directions:
- In a 2-quart sauce pot over medium heat sweat onions in olive oil.
- When soft, add rice for 2 minutes (to create a coating on rice).
- Add white wine, saffron, and “feed” with water and cook until al dente.
- Remove from heat, spread on a sheet pan to cool. Set aside.
Additional Ingredients:
4 oz oily fish such as bluefish or mackerel
4 oz dry fish such as cod or monkfish
(Marinate fish for 4 hours in sliced red onions, chopped garlic, and orange zest)
1 chicken thigh
¾ cup chorizo sausage diced (1/4 inch)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 clove thinly sliced garlic
½ - 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
1 roasted tomato
1 cup lobster
1 cup chicken stock
4 clams
2 lobster claws
4 mussels
21-25 whole shrimp
½ cup fresh or frozen green peas
1 scallion chopped
2 sprigs whole cilantro (for garnish)
salt and freshly ground black pepper for seasoning
Directions:
- Sear chorizo and garlic until well caramelized.
- Add rice, tomato, crushed red pepper, chicken, clams then reserved marinated fish.
- Add the lobster stock. Bake in brick oven until clams open.
- Add remaining shellfish (mussels, lobster, shrimp), chicken stock, and peas. Add the remaining chicken stock and cook until it has been absorbed.
- Garnish with cilantro sprigs