Summer Spanish Paella

[Cotty]

Anyone tried this?
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/family/feed_your_famil...

Its one of the feed your family for a fiver things. Should be good for one hungry person

[grumbledoak]

So, totting that up, maybe 800/900g of food? Too much for me alone, but it doesn't sound a lot for a family of four, in truth.

Pretty sure you could get the cost down, too, using normal rice and some chook stock...

[Cotty]

It was ok I reduced the portions as its a week day meal not a weekender

[grumbledoak]

It does look nice. And, I'm not really a fan of peppers.

[jazzybee]

grumbledoak said:

So, totting that up, maybe 800/900g of food? Too much for me alone, but it doesn't sound a lot for a family of four, in truth.

Pretty sure you could get the cost down, too, using normal rice and some chook stock...

add the 800ml of water,some of which will evaporate, I'm sure you'll get closer to 1.5kg

[grumbledoak]

jazzybee said:

add the 800ml of water,some of which will evaporate, I'm sure you'll get closer to 1.5kg

A very good point.

[Cotty]

jazzybee said:

add the 800ml of water,some of which will evaporate, I'm sure you'll get closer to 1.5kg

I reduced the amount of rice and chorizo.

Edited by Cotty on Monday 6th July 23:11

[bazking69]

I do a similar thing but marinate the prawns in sweet chilli sauce first, and chuck in a tin of drained chopped tomatoes and some chopped spring onions. Cook the rice seperately and throw it all in and let it simmer for a bit until the prawns are pink.
Omit the peppers and you have a ruddy tasty, quick meal on the cheap.

[HRG.]

grumbledoak said:

So, totting that up, maybe 800/900g of food? Too much for me alone, but it doesn't sound a lot for a family of four, in truth.

Pretty sure you could get the cost down, too, using normal rice and some chook stock...

Looks like a perfect quick weekday meal for me and my two young daughters

[TVC]

Have just picked up the ingredients for this, not sure whether I'm a snob (nearly got TTD prawns instead) or a cheapskate (72p for a pepper? If I could be bothered to go to the market...). But mainly I want to say:

Oi! Sainsbury's! Put the fking rice in the aisle that's got the fking 'Rice' sign over it. It's grocery shopping not the fking Krypton Factor.

That's better.

[Cotty]

TVC said:

Oi! Sainsbury's! Put the fking rice in the aisle that's got the fking 'Rice' sign over it. It's grocery shopping not the fking Krypton Factor.

I gave up looking for the rice they suggested, then remembered I already had some Paella rice so just used that.

[sleep envy]

quick tip, they sell peeled frozen uncooked prawns cheaper than they do at the counter (the counter ones are frozen too)

much nicer than the pre cooked plus you can de-vain them

[TVC]

Cotty said:

TVC said:

Oi! Sainsbury's! Put the fking rice in the aisle that's got the fking 'Rice' sign over it. It's grocery shopping not the fking Krypton Factor.

I gave up looking for the rice they suggested, then remembered I already had some Paella rice so just used that.

Two aisles over, that's why. Must some reason known only to Sainsbury's why this particular rice is excluded from the rice section.

Anyway, wasn't bad for what it was. Only fed a family of 1, although I am thinking that perhaps I didn't really need to eat all of it. Mind you, I used to frequent Spanish restaurants in NYC where the paella for one would dwarf that quantity.

[bazking69]

thegavster said:

sleep envy said:

quick tip, they sell peeled frozen uncooked prawns cheaper than they do at the counter (the counter ones are frozen too)

much nicer than the pre cooked plus you can de-vain them

Also, in Tesco, raw frozen king prawns are on offer from £5 to £2.25 a pack.

Almost as cheap as the rubbish little pink things in the chilled aisle.

I have 5 packs of these in the freezer at the moment...