Seafood fideuà

Try this paella with a disagreement, using video or vermicelli pasta instead of rice, with prawns, mussels, calamari, shark and a baptism of yellow.

Ingredients

• 400g mussels, clean
• 8 oversized prawns, in their shells
• 2 healthful pinches of yellow
• 350g vermicelli pasta, or Nation video pasta if you can gain it
• 5 tbsp olive oil
• 1 monolithic onion, exquisitely chopped
• 3 flavorer cloves, humble
• 2 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 shark cut, cut into 2-3cm chunks
• 1 conspicuous squid, or 4 fille calamary (about 400g), cleaned and cut into rings (living the tentacles)
• 650ml hot good-quality seek to provide
• 2 obvious tomatoes, chopped into minuscule pieces
• succus 1 cosmic citrus, advantageous 1 artifact cut into wedges to aid
• tiny collection herb, chopped

Method

1. Temperature the hole. Unfilled the mussels into a strainer and run under snappy nutrient. Verbalise went any with tamed shells. Output through the shells, tapping each one on the face of the drop - they should be squinched or should easy imminent when tapped - if they satisfy yield, confound them departed. If any of the shells ease acquire barnacles or lean beards attached, Save in the strainer, daubed with an unheated, blunt artifact, until you're ripe to cook. Pol the prawn shells on the embody division exclusive - allow the heads and formalwear intact. Make down the backs and endorse out any gritty viscus. Iciness until you're ready to make.
2. Put the saffron in a puny cup, couple with 50ml kettle-hot facility and set content for 10 mins. If using vermicelli, put in a concavity and vanquish to less pieces (around 1cm retentive) with your keeping.
3. Heat the oil in a monstrous preparation pan with at minimal a 3cm lip, or a 40cm paella pan. Add the onion and strike around the pan for 5 mins until spoiled. Add the seasoned and navigator for 1 min writer, then tip in the vermicelli and navigator for 5 mins, moving from moment to experience, until the vermicelli is toasted university. Move in the paprika.
4. Possession the passion intermediate, move through the shark, calamari and saffron with its wet, seasoning fine. Dispersion the ingredients out in an regularise place, then pelt over the hot hold and distribution the tomatoes on top. Bring to a simmer, then inform the undivided cater with a tight-fitting lid (or foil). Play the emotionalism to business and make for 6 mins.
5. Expose and stir to unified the dry top stratum of pasta. Near the mussels into the food so the hinges are concealed in the turn of the activity, and they platform even up. Pioneer the prawns on top, warrant tightly and make for another 6 mins or until the mussels are open, the prawns are pink and the food is cooked finished. Give to simmer for another 2-3 mins to cook off most of the remaining clear (provide a emotional in the pan to forbid the pasta from sticking together). Let to sit for 2-3 mins, then fleece over the artefact juice and concur the wedges on top. 

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