Arroz De Marisco, Portuguese Seafood Rice

Serves 4

A delicious Portuguese seafood rice dish, full of prawns, crabs and mussels, but you can pick whatever seafood you like. White fish is also very good. Arroz de marisco is similar to Spanish paella but it is a bit more like a fish stew, as it still has a broth that isn’t completely reduced like paella, the rice has a sticky moist texture similar to an Italian risotto.

Portuguese seafood rice is a very tasty dish full of flavour, and is a wonderful dish to cook when you have guest round, the more you cook the better it tastes as you can add more variety of seafood in the dish. It is a dish definitely made for sharing and celebrating.

Ingredients

• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 large ripe tomatoes, chopped, deseeded
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp paprika
• Small glass dry white wine
• 315g arborio rice
• 300g mussels, raw and cleaned
• 400g crab, raw
• 300g king prawns, raw with shells
• 1185ml fish or chicken stock
• Chilli to taste
• 1 Lemon

Method

1. Heat the oil in a sauce pan and fry the onions and garlic until tender and onions become translucent. Add the tomatoes and wine simmer for about 5 minutes and let reduce.
2. Add the rice and stock, cover the pan and simmer gently, for about 10 minutes until rice is nearly cooked.
3. Add the crab and mussels and cook for a further 5 minutes, then add the prawns and cook until all the sea food is cooked.
4. Season with chilli and squeeze some lemon in to taste.