Seafood Rice

With such a long coastline, the Portuguese cuisine includes numerous delicious dishes with seafood and fish. The seafood rice is one them and I´ve cooked just recently. This is one of the "must try" dishes if you ever visit Portugal! There are actually specific restaurants, called "marisqueiras", where the specialty is precisely the seafood.

The seafood rice is very easy and quick to prepare. There are only 2 secrets to it: don´t overcook it and add enough water... this is the type of dish where you don´t want the rice to soak the water. For this reason, it must be served right away.

Ingredients

- fish at your choice (anglerfish is a good choice), prawns and crab sticks
  (you can also use mussels, clams, crab, up to the chef to decide)
- 1 cup of rice
- about 3 cups of water
- 1 small can of peeled tomatoes
- tea spoon of paprika
- 1 large onion
- 3 clovers of garlic
- olive oil
- salt, pepper (piri-piri instead of pepper if you have it, here in Singapore I can´t find it)
- coriander 

Preparation

- first brown the onion and the garlic in the olive oil and add the tomatoes and paprika afterwards.

- add the fish cut in cubs and the prawns, stir and let it briefly cook in the tomato sauce not for more than 2 minutes. 

- then add the water, the rice and season with salt and pepper or piri-piri (this spice is very popular in the Portuguese cuisine and it´s different from using pepper or chili or any other type of spice, in my opinion)

- let the rice and the fish cook altogether for about 15 minutes. Add more water little by little if you see the rice is becoming dry.

- only at the very end, 1 minute before removing the pan from the stove, you can add the crab sticks. Season again if necessary.

- sprinkle the rice with coriander, without stirring, and serve right away!

You´ll like this dish!