A different slant on Chicken Paella

[kevenh]

It was Jamie Oliver who got into trouble about chorizo in paella. The Spaniards got really upset.

https://www.thelocal.es/20161005/jamie-oliver-messed-with-paella-and-spain-didnt-like-it

This ^^
I work with a Spaniard that likes to cook traditional Spanish food.
He gets wound up by his British colleagues chucking chorizo into “their” dishes. So he has a dislike for Jamie
Another (related) way to get under his skin is to pronounce chorizo as if there’s a Z to be said.

 

[sciac2001]

This ^^
I work with a Spaniard that likes to cook traditional Spanish food.
He gets wound up by his British colleagues chucking chorizo into “their” dishes. So he has a dislike for Jamie
Another (related) way to get under his skin is to pronounce chorizo as if there’s a Z to be said.

It's taken me 35 years to get my daughter to pronounce it properly but still she says "choritzo".
Drives me insane too.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

You have to be really careful with this..... the paella police are everywhere

It appears that the Paella police are still on patrol. I use chorizo, chicken anything else and lots of creepy crawlies** with a spice mix and onions (shallots actually) and don’t really care about offending the purists….. it tastes good.


**better known as mixed seafood including “fish with legs” A.K.A. Big prawns in their shells……

 

[M-J]

Chorizo works well in Paella but l hate how Carrots seem to find their way into lots these days. They even found there way into Chinese meals at a local restaurant,now they definitely do not grow bloody Carrots in China

China grows more carrots than any other country.

 

[gus-lopez]

My understanding of paella was it's peasant food so absolutely anything goes in, whatever was around, so I don't see chorizo being a problem. I guess in the day they didn't have chorizo so maybe that's why it doesn't appear in traditional recipes ?

Exactly &why many versions have no meat or fish in them whatsoever.

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[pappajohn]

They even found there way into Chinese meals at a local restaurant,now they definitely do not grow bloody Carrots in

And half the dishes we get presented with are unheard of in China .... Just like with Indian dishes.

 

[Littlewheels]

China grows more carrots than any other country.

l stand corrected but l refuse to eat them in anything but a Roast Dinner.

 

[Rocking Rivet]

I don’t think most people in the UK would relish many actual Chinese dishes

 

[KiwiKampers]

My sister and I used to think we were so sophisticated in the 1970s when we cooked up a Vesta Paella and ate with just a fork while watching Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

I don’t think most people in the UK would relish many actual Chinese dishes

You are right there……

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[DuxDeluxe]

My sister and I used to think we were so sophisticated in the 1970s when we cooked up a Vesta Paella and ate with just a fork while watching Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
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Yessssss….way to go

 

[kevenh]

I don’t think most people in the UK would relish many actual Chinese dishes

There isn't enough meat around so the Chinese people will use lots more of the animal carcass than Western Europeans.
Fat is a delicacy.
Less common now, but our parents' parents would be boiling bones to make broth (or summat ).

Details of unpleasant meat creation in China

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The larger Chinese restaurants catering for visitors and tourists will of Westernised the menu.
But remember I mentioned fat is a delicacy?
For the last dinner of our Oct 2000 holiday at one large restaurant we had a Peking duck feast. On the lazy Susan there were little rectangles of flat white lumps. Being by then adept with chopsticks I smoothly picked up a chunk and put in my mouth. It was lard

 

[Zoobec]

Anyone tried the Fideua (pasta) version of paelle?

Not cooked it, but I’ve eaten Fideua before. It was nice

 

[sciac2001]

Not cooked it, but I’ve eaten Fideua before. It was nice

Easier and quicker to make and tastes similar with just the texture being different, obviously.

 

[mitzimad]

I will inform my Valenciano acquaintances that their Regional dish, cooked by them in a very specific way for centuries can be altered on the say-so of the Brits and still be called Paella.

You will no doubt hear the laughter and ridicule all the way from Valencia.

I wonder if when I substitute plain flour with chickpea flour, I would still be having Yorkshire Pudding.

Most Yorkshire men use garam flour now

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