A good way to end a day

After a very lazy day by the pool Jemma and I prepared a paella on the roof terrace. It is normal to cook a paella over a gas ring mounted on a tripod. We cheated and used the charcoal BBQ.
















For those of you interested this is how we made our paella.

Ingredients:

• chicken pieces (chicken on the bone has more flavour than the breast fillets but takes a little more cooking)
• fresh tomatoes chopped
• a fresh red pepper chopped
  
• fresh green beans chopped
• tinned white beans (we could have used dried beans)
  
• chorizo chopped into chunks
• a large onion chopped
• several cloves of garlic crushed
• olive oil
• rice 400gms
• water 1.25l
• the secret ingredient - Carmencita Paellero which is a mix of spices and saffron. This gave our paella a wonderful colour and provided a mouth watering aroma as it cooked.

We heated the oil until it was very hot and cooked the chicken. Removed the chicken and cooked the onion and garlic until soft. Then we cooked the pepper, chorizo and tomatoes and added the water, Paellero and beans. Finally we added the rice and put the chicken back in. Brought the whole lot back to the boil and let it simmer until the rice was fully cooked and caramelised at the bottom of the paella.

Wonderful!! We washed it down with sangria.