Shellfish and Chicken Paella

I have never had paella before, but one of the episodes of Throwdown! with Bobby Flay featured a shellfish and chicken paella recipe. It looked delicious, and as the recipe was available online, my mom and I decided to try it out. Shellfish, chicken, chorizo, rice, saffron, peas… the ingredients in this dish were endless, but that’s what made it look so tasty!

Here is the recipe, courtesy of the Food Network’s website. My mom and I made some changes to the dish: we eliminated the peas, used only chicken wings instead of a whole chicken, doubled the amount of squid and clams, eliminated octopus altogether, and halved the amount of mussels. And while the dish pictured above might not have the best presentation (it’s hard to work out a good presentation for paella when the shellfish and chicken are cooked in a pot with the Arborio rice, tomatoes, chorizo, chicken stock, and lemon aioli mixture!) it was absolutely heavenly. This shellfish and chicken paella was a seafood aficionado’s dream for sure!

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.