🇪🇸 How to Make Paella Valenciana

Craving Paella Valenciana? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Paella Valenciana at home, in about 55 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 300g bomba or other short-grain paella rice
• 1L hot chicken stock
• 1 chicken thigh per person, cut in big pieces
• 150g green beans, halved
• 100g butter beans
• 2 tomatoes, grated (skins discarded)
• 1 tsp sweet paprika
• a good pinch of saffron, soaked in a splash of warm stock
• olive oil, salt

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Brown the chicken in olive oil in the widest pan you own. Take your time — this is most of the flavour.
2. Add the beans, fry 3 min, then the grated tomato and paprika. Cook until it darkens and smells sweet.
3. Pour in the stock and saffron, season well, and bring to a strong simmer.
4. Scatter the rice evenly across the pan. Do NOT stir it again — from here on the rice is left alone.
5. Simmer hard 10 min, then low 8 min, then off the heat, covered with a tea towel, 5 min.
6. The crust on the bottom is called socarrat and is the best part. Turn the heat up for the last 60 seconds to get it.