Orzo "Paella" Style - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
12 clams or 12 mussels, cooked
12 jumbo shrimp, cooked
1 cup orzo pasta
2 cups stock, heated (I used vegetable)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/2 cup rough chopped zucchini
1/2 cup rough chopped yellow squash
2 cloves chopped garlic
2 tablespoons pimientos
salt
saffron, if desired
1 handful chopped parsley
lemon juice
Preparation
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Heat olive oil in deep saucepan and add red onion, saute for 5 min, then add zucchini and squash.
Saute 5 more minute and add dry orzo and toast for 4 minute Add garlic, pimentos and a dash of salt (and saffron if using), then add stock. Stir every couple minutes for about 10 minutes until all liquid has been absorbed and orzo is cooked through.
Meanwhile, which orzo is cooking, grill chicken breasts until just cooked through with grill marks - and put the shrimp on the grill for the last few minutes.
Steam mussels/clams.
Stir parsley into orzo pan and then nestle seafood and large slices of chicken into the pan and serve.
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