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Dinner · 40 min · 4 plates

Weeknight paella skillet

No socarrat guarantee. Saffron if you have it; paprika if you don't. Don't stir like risotto.

The sheet · 4 plates · 40 min

medium

Why tonight. No socarrat guarantee. Saffron if you have it; paprika if you don't. Don't stir like risotto.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • rice
  • chicken
  • tomato
  • stock
  • olive oil

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: shrimp, peas.

Method

  1. Build the sofrito first — onion and tomato cooked down until dark and jammy. That is the flavor base and it cannot be rushed.
  2. Rice stirred through the sofrito, then stock added all at once and spread flat.
  3. Do not stir it again. Stirring makes risotto; leaving it alone makes the crust on the bottom, which is the point.
  4. Listen for the crackle at the end and let it go a minute past it. Rest it off the heat under a cloth for five.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

rice
Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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