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Vegetarian paella

I've made this vegan/vegetarian version of paella with unconventional ingredients, often used as tapa style snacks and a mix of peppers.
Servings: 6

Equipment

  • paella pan or wide flat shallow frying pan

Ingredients

  • 100 ml olive oil
  • 6 shallots, finely sliced
  • 3 red peppers, deseeded, stems and white pith removed, thinly sliced
  • 2 long green peppers,deseeded, stems and white pith removed, thinly sliced or use a dozen whole padron peppers
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 kilo La bomba rice
  • 3 nyora dried peppers, soaked in hot water
  • Pinch saffron
  • 100 ml white white or dry sherry
  • 3 litres hot vegetable stock including nyora water.
  • can green olives
  • 75 g smoked almonds
  • bunch parsley
  • 1 lemon, cut into wedges

Instructions

  • Prep all the ingredients and have them ready to use.
  • Put the paella pan on the hob or fire on a medium to low heat, with the olive oil.
  • When the oil is hot, add the shallots, fry until pale gold.
  • Add the fresh peppers, fry until the edges are slightly crispy, then the garlic.
  • Add La Bomba rice, stirring as you fry it.
  • Remove the dried nyoras from the hot water, removing the seeds and stems but reserving the water which you will add to the stock.
  • In a mortar and pestle, grind the saffron strands with the nyora peppers.
  • Add this mixture with the white wine or sherry, to the paella pan. Stir into the rice.
  • From this point on you stop stirring. Gradually add the stock bit by bit until it is all absorbed. You can put foil over the pan if you don't have a lid, so that the rice steams. Make sure it's on a low heat so that while a crust is formed on the bottom, it doesn't burn.
  • Cook for 20 minutes until all the grains swell up. Make sure the stock is added to the edges of the pan, not just the middle.
  • Add the almonds, olives, parsley.
  • Serve with lemon wedges