Recipe - Paella A La Valenciana

6 cup Chicken stock
1 lg Whole onion, peeled
One half teaspoon Saffron threads
1 pound Large shrimp
12 Little neck clams (opt)
1 Broiler/fryer, cut into 9
pieces (3 One half lb)
Salt
Pepper
1 pound Chorizo sausage
3 tablespoon Olive oil
1 md Onion, peeled and coarsely
chopped
4 ounce Salt pork, coarsely chopped
(opt)
1 tablespoon Minced garlic
1 cup Dry white wine (opt)
1 tablespoon Paprika
1 cup Chopped tomatoes
1 tablespoon Chopped fresh Italian
parsley
3 cup Shortgrain rice
1 Bay leaf, crumbled
Juice of 1 lemon

FOR GARNISH
A handful of frozen peas
A few strips of pimiento
or roasted pepper

In a saucepan, combine the chicken stock, whole onion and the crushed
saffron threads. Cover the pan, and simmer over low heat while you
prepare the rest of the ingredients.

Peel and devein shrimp. Wash the clams. Rinse the chicken in cold
water and pat dry.

Slice the chorizo into 1/8" discs. Place in a paella pan or skillet,
and cook over medium heat until fat is redered. Remove with slotted
spoon, and reserve. Wash or wipe out the skillet. Saute shrimp in 1
tablespoon olive oil until pink; remove and reserve.

Wash or wipe out the pan. Salt and pepper chicken pieces. Brown
chicken in 1 tablespoon of oil, turning until all sides are browned
but not fully cooked. Remove from pan and reserve. If desired, remove
the skin from the chicken pieces and discard.

Drain fat from pan. Add final tablespoon of oil to pan. Add onions and
salt pork. Over mediumhigh heat, saute the mixture until onions are
wilted. Add garlic, and saute about 30 seconds. Add white wine, stir
and cook over mediumhigh heat until most of the wine has evaporated.

Remove pan from heat. Add paprika and tomato and parsley, and stir
well. Return pan to heat, and cook until mixture thickens. Add rice,
and stir until rice is coated with tomato mixture.

Remove whole onion from chicken stock. Add chicken stock and saffron
to rice mixture. Raise heat to high; stir and add chicken pieces,
shrimp, clams, chorizo, bay leaf and lemon juice. Gently stir
ingredients.

Cover and cook over low heat until the rice has absorbed the liquid
and the clam shells have opened, about 2530 minutes.

Five minutes before the end of cooking time, sprinkle top of paella
with peas. Cover and continue cooking. Garnish with pimiento.

From Tuscon area newspapers, 1994, 3rd quarter, courtest Mike Orchekowski.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/tn94q3.zip