*For an extra-fine texture use a 51-cm (20-inch) paella pan. Preheat the barbecue or grill. Lightly toast all the spices and flavorings in a dry frying pan or skillet over medium-high heat until ...

Tender shrimp and mussels sit atop al dente rice that's perfectly flavored with seafood broth, aromatics, and spices in this ...

The key to a great paella lies in the rice, both the raw ingredient and how you handle it during the cooking. Spaniards use Bomba rice in their paella. These short-grain rice varieties grown near the ...

*For an extra fine texture, use at 41-cm (16-inch) paella pan suitable for us on the stove and in the oven. Heat the olive oil in a pan over low heat, add the garlic and ñora pepper and sauté for a ...

PROCLAIMING A DISH “the king” is begging for contradictio — or combat. But generations of Spanish gastronomes have revered paella as the king of all rice dishes, and with little quarrel. Anyone who ...

“It’s a controversial question,” says Jesus “Lolo” Manso, a Spanish ex-pat who owns Socarrat, a highly-acclaimed New York City paella bar named after the crust of rice that forms on the bottom of the ...

You wouldn’t know it from the elaborate meat-and-shellfish dish in Spanish restaurants, but paella has simple roots. Like most peasant dishes gone ritzy, paella is quite comfortable back in the home ...

The menu fixed to the restaurant wall in front of me proudly offers 176 rice dishes. The first question that springs to mind is: “How?” Followed rapidly by: “Why?” How can you possibly prepare that ...

Maybe it’s time you stopped stirring. For a couple of decades now, risotto has been the go-to sophisticated rice dish for homes and restaurants alike, and cooks have stood by the stove with a spoon in ...

Paella was originally a farmer’s fare with 10 common ingredients: olive oil, rice, chicken, rabbit, salt, saffron, tomatoes, ...

The days are getting shorter, but the sunlight is a generous honeyed gold, and our markets and gardens are a glorious collision of vegetables. The cooking of Spain is a great place to look for ...

A Christmas far from home but still feels familiar “No comes paella, vas de paella,” and so they say in Spain when someone ...