Best Paella Panamanian Style Recipes

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CHICKEN PAELLA (ARROZ CON POLLO PANAMANIAN STYLE)



CHICKEN PAELLA (ARROZ CON POLLO PANAMANIAN STYLE) image

Categories     Chicken     Tomato     Side     Braise     Christmas     Kid-Friendly     New Year's Eve     Dinner     Lunch     Casserole/Gratin     Potluck

Yield 6 bowls

Number Of Ingredients 11

3 cups uncooked rice (white folks WASH YOUR RICE)
1 Chicken cut in bite size chunks, if you have children or you are a picky eater you can use chicken breast cut up in one inch size cubes.
1 can tomato paste
1 lg. handful chopped Culantro, this is the Panamanian equivalent in Cilantro but its stronger, if you cant find it use regular Cilantro. It can be found in Filipino markets and its called Ngo Gai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium_foetidum)
1 lg. onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2-3 tablespoons oil (any kind will do but i prefer olive oil or vegetable oil)
1 cup stuffed green olives, drained (salad olives are fine, but the others look better)
1/4 tsp. saffron (optional honestly just for color)
3 tablespoons salt
Chicken broth, or plain water but please flavor your water with a couple chicken bouillon cubes

Steps:

  • Any dutch oven or large sauce pan will do. Heat a tablespoon of oil on medium to high heat and add the chicken, and cook until brown (dont over cook or it will be dry) Take out chicken set aside, in the same pot add another tablespoon oil and put in onions and garlic. Cook over medium heat until transparent. Add the rice and make sure its all coated with the oil so you dont end up with sticky rice. In a separate bowl mix you tomato paste with the water or chicken stock make sure its dissolved completely season the water with a tablespoon of salt for ever cup of water you use, add the liquid to the rice and throw back in the chicken. Put in your olives and the cilantro in as well. Turn flame low and cook until done...and done... a hearty delicious one pot meal!

PAELLA PANAMANIAN STYLE



Paella Panamanian Style image

Regional style fish meat and rice dish. Unlike it's Spain counter part this recipe is flavored with tomato rather than saffron making it quite different. Any good Mexican pork sausage would do for the Panamanian, and if you can't find a Spanish pork sausage, try an andouille sausage, Italian sausage or chorizo combinations. Anything except American breakfast sausage!

Provided by Steve P.

Categories     Stew

Time 2h

Yield 8-12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 24

1 (3 lb) chicken
4 medium pork chops
2 medium lobsters
1 lb squid
1 1/2 lbs small shrimp
3 lbs small clams
2 lbs panamanian pork sausage
2 lbs spanish sausage
1/2 lb razor clam (Longorones)
1/2 lb mussels
4 large onions
4 medium green peppers
3 garlic cloves
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can tomatoes or 3 medium fresh tomatoes
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can tomato sauce
1 (15 ounce) can baby green peas (petit pois) or 1 (15 ounce) can chickpeas
salt, to taste
pepper, to taste
5 cups rice (do not use converted rice)
parsley, to taste
scallion, to taste
6 tablespoons oil
0.5 (7 ounce) jar stuffed green olives

Steps:

  • Cut and fry the chicken well.
  • Make a sauce with 1 1/2 onions chopped, 1 1/2 green peppers chopped and 1 1/2 tomatoes cut up.
  • Add 1 cup water.
  • Cook on a low heat.
  • Separately, fry the sausages in small pieces and do the same with the pork chops.
  • Boil the lobsters and shrimp and peel them.
  • Clean and slice clams and squid.
  • Make a sauce with 1 1/2 onions, 1 1/2 green pepper, 1 1/2 tomatoes and liquid from the peas.
  • Separate the meat from the bones of all the meat and cook the clams with scallions and parsley.
  • Wash the rice well (3 times) and in a large, deep pot, put 6 tablespoons oil and fry the rice.
  • Add the liquid the seafoods were cooked in (about 5 cups).
  • Add sausage, boneless chicken and pork with its sauce, whole shrimp, lobster sliced into small pieces, clams and squid and mussels in their sauce.
  • Also add sauce made with the remaining onion, scallion, finely chopped green pepper, tomato paste and tomato sauce.
  • Add the peas and olives.
  • Cook at a high heat for 10 minutes; then cover pot and cook at a low heat for 45 minutes.
  • When ready to serve, decorate with strips of green pepper and olives.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 2068.7, Fat 104.1, SaturatedFat 31, Cholesterol 635.5, Sodium 2960, Carbohydrate 137.1, Fiber 9.3, Sugar 13.9, Protein 137.6

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