Healthy Cheat's Seafood Paella Recipe

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Prep: 15 min
Cook: 20 min
Servings: 4

Ingredients

spray olive or canola oil spray
1 onion, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 capsicum, seeded and diced
3 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp ground cumin
to taste pepper
2 cups risoni (rice-shaped pasta)
3 cups salt-reduced chicken stock
1 cup water
250 g cherry tomatoes, halved
2 lemons
1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped, plus extra for serving
1 1/2 cups frozen peas
500 g marinara mix or seafood of your choice

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Method

Spray a large deep non-stick pan or paella pan (something with a lid) with oil and place on high heat. Cook onion for 3 minutes until softened, stirring often.
Add garlic, capsicum, paprika and cumin; season with pepper. Cook for a minute until fragrant then mix in risoni and cook a further minute, stirring to coat in spices.
Microwave stock and water for 1 minute, then pour into the pan and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium and simmer uncovered for 5 minutes.
Stir through tomatoes and zest and juice of 1 lemon, then cook a further 5 minutes, allowing a crust to form on the bottom of the pan, until risoni is almost tender.
Gently stir through parsley and peas, then press seafood into the top of risoni and cook, covered, for 5 minutes or until prawns change colour and other seafood is cooked through.
To serve, garnish with extra parsley and lemon wedges.

Variation:

To spice it up, add a chopped red chilli or cayenne pepper, to taste. Replace cherry tomatoes with two chopped tomatoes. Substitute marinara mix with peeled uncooked (green) prawns.

Healthy tip!

Chilli, lemon and herbs add flavour - great alternatives to butter and salt!

Nutrition Information


	per serving	per 100g
Energy	2046 kJ	294 kJ
	489 Cal	70 Cal
Protein	44.4 g	6.4 g
Fat, total	7.4 g	1.1 g
— saturated	1.7 g	0.2 g
Carbohydrate	53.6 g	7.7 g
— sugars	10.1 g	1.4 g
Sodium	991 mg	142 mg
Fibre	11.5 g	1.7 g