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Portuguese seafood rice

• Sabrina Ghayour

Published: June 19, 2020 at 10:27 PM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 1 hr and 30 mins

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A celebration of all things seafood, this colourful rice dish calls for plenty of paprika, garlic, mussels, king prawns and oregano

Gluten free

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Try this recipe for Portuguese seafood rice, then also check out our black seafood risotto and seafood chowder.

This seafood rice recipe comes from Sabrina Ghayour, inspired by her travels to Portugal. Sabrina says: "Porto is a stunning city of sloping cobbled streets, vibrant café culture, restaurants and nightlife, and the most fantastic food and colourful history. Once you get past the initial consumption of endless pastéis de nata, seafood should be next on your agenda. The arroz con mariscos I had here were much soupier and more comforting than any I’d ever had before and I could have happily eaten a bowl three times a day, no problem."

Ingredients

Nutrition

• 1 onion

  finely chopped

• 2 sticks celery

  finely chopped

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• 6 large cloves garlic

  bashed but left whole

• 2 bay leaves

• 1 tbsp paprika (not smoked)

• ½ tsp dried chilli flakes

• 4 tomatoes

  cored and roughly chopped

• 400g tin chopped tomatoes

• 1 tsp caster or granulated sugar

• 100g risotto rice

• 750g mussels

  cleaned

• 200g large raw peeled king prawns

  defrosted if frozen

• half a small bunch oregano

  chopped

• half a small bunch flat-leaf parsley

  roughly chopped, including stalks

• 25g butter

  diced

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal331

  low

• fat12.9g

• saturates4.4g

• carbs31.5g

• sugars10g

• fibre5.2g

• protein19.5g

• salt1.2g

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Method

• step 1

  Cook the onion and celery in the oil in a casserole over a medium-high heat for 10 minutes or until softened. Add the garlic and bay leaves, and cook until the garlic is translucent. Stir in the paprika, chilli flakes, fresh tomatoes and a generous amount of seasoning. Add the tinned tomatoes and sugar with 1.5 litres of cold water, then stir and cover with a lid. After the liquid begins to simmer, reduce to a medium heat and allow to gently simmer for 45 minutes.

• step 2

  Next add the rice, stir once and leave to cook for 15 minutes with the lid on. Adjust the seasoning, then add the mussels, stir well and cover with a lid again. Cook for 10 minutes or until all of the mussels have opened (discard any that haven’t). Adjust the liquid volume by adding a little more justboiled water if it seems a little dry, then add the prawns. Cook for 2 minutes with a lid on and then stir in the chopped oregano, parsley and butter, and serve in shallow bowls.

*This recipe is gluten free according to industry standards

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Sabrina Ghayour

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