Chunky Vegetable Paella by janiebakes

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Chunky Vegetable Paella
Submitted by janiebakes on June 17, 2011 at 6:35 pm

DESCRIPTION
A good way to get your veggies

SUMMARY
Yield 6 servings File under side dish

INGREDIENTS
Chunky Vegetable Paella

One good pinch saffron
1 eggplant cut into thick chunks (skipped this)
6 tbs olive oil (I used less, just a little in the pan)
1 large onion diced
3 garlic cloves crushed
1 yellow pepper sliced
1 red pepper sliced
2 tsp paprika (smoked paprika would be nice too I think)
1 1/4 cup risotto rice (Trader Joes to the rescue!) (Can use brown rice. adjust cooking time)
2 1/2 cups stock (I used water but chicken or beef stock is good)
1 lb tomatoes skinned and chopped ( I did not skin)
4 oz sliced mushrooms
4 oz green beans cut into bite sized pieces
14 oz can chick peas
salt and ground pepper

INSTRUCTIONS
Put the saffron in a small dish with 3 TBL of hot water, set aside. Sprinkle the eggplant with salt and leave to drain in a colander for 30 minutes. Rinse with water and drain. Set aside. In a large frying pan or paella pan, heat the oil and fry the onion, garlic,peppers and eggplant for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the paprika and stir again. Mix in the rice, then add the tomatoes, saffron and seasoning. If using fresh green beans, add now. Bring to a boil and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes, uncovered, shaking the pan often and stirring occasionally. You are trying not to turn the rice into mush. Stir in ghe mushrooms, green beans if using frozen ones and the can of chick peas with the liquid. Continue cooking for 10 minutes. Serve hot from the pan.

comments
Submitted by kaf-sub-PEGCLEARY on Mon, 2011-07-04 10:14.
This is delicious! I have vegetarian friends that will love it!
Submitted by --jej on Mon, 2011-07-11 03:22.
janiebakes, have you ever swapped anything else for the mushrooms? Somehow, they just don't make it into our grocery cart (although we do eat things from 'elsewhere' with them). Otherwise, this sounds wonderful!
Submitted by janiebakes on Tue, 2011-07-12 13:16.
I've never subbed anything for the mushrooms but you could just leave them out. I rarely put in the eggplant because there aren't a lot of eggplant eaters here. This is a very forgiving recipe, just add your favorite veggies at a time that will they be cooked but not overcooked.
Good to see you posting jej, so hard to keep up with our OBC friends. Janie
Submitted by --jej on Wed, 2011-07-13 12:15.
needed to delete.
Submitted by --jej on Wed, 2011-07-13 12:12.
Yes, Janie, I was delighted to see you also, and your recipe grabbed me as well. I've not been on for a while, as our church ladies are putting together a new cookbook. We hoped it will bring our recently merged churches together. A lot of work and very time-consuming, with only a couple of weeks left now before it goes to the publishers. We are hoping it will sell, as we got some comments from some of the gals that "we can just go to the web for new recipes when we want them..."
But back to your veggie paella. We don't do eggplant either. Our 9-year-old grandson will be here for about 3 weeks in Aug. and a year or so ago, he declared himself VEGETARIAN!!! I definitely will be making this while he is with us. Thanks again.
jej
Submitted by janiebakes on Wed, 2011-07-13 12:39.
I hope he likes it. With all his allergies, maybe vegetarian eating will be helpful or easier for him. When your cookbook is ready for sale could you let me know. I would love a copy. Yes, there are recipes on the WEB but you can't take them to bed with you for night time reading. 🙂
Submitted by --jej on Thu, 2011-07-14 16:25.
Janie, that is so sweet and generous of you. Our cookbook is going to the publisher in early August, and we are hoping to get it out for Christmas.
As for Ira (not so little DGS anymore), I'm hoping to have him help me do some cooking, and I think this Chunky Veggie Paella will be fun to do. He loves rice, and so with veggies he enjoys, it should work well. His mom put him in a "French Cooking Camp" this summer (last week, I think), and she said he came home with a loaf of French Bread the first day! Haven't heard since what other delicacies he's made. But we'll definitely also be making some French Bread!! I'll want to use Peter R.'s recipe from the BBA unless Ira brings his own recipe with him.
Submitted by --jej on Wed, 2011-07-13 12:14.
Oops!! I can't count! Submitted that twice, evidentally. Tried several times with that edit icon to delete one of them, but it won't see to cooperate...
Submitted by dachshundlady on Sat, 2012-05-05 18:18.
This looks really good. I added it to my recipes. But I have no saffron. And I was JUST at Savory Spice 2 days ago but that's 5 hours away.
Submitted by janiebakes on Mon, 2012-05-07 12:02.
I have made it without the saffron before and didn't really miss it especially when I used the smoked paprika.

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