Paella

At Home:

  Ingredients Metric  Standard
  Olive/Vegetable Oil 45 ml 3 Tbsp
1 Onion, minced    
  White Rice 500 ml 2 Cups
 20 Fresh mushrooms, finely chopped    
 1 Green Pepper, minced    
 1 Red Pepper, minced    
  Stewed Tomatoes 1 L 4 Cups
  Chicken Stock or Tomato Juice 500 ml 2 Cups
  Rosemary 5 ml 1 tsp
  Shrimp, chopped  250 g  8 0z
 4 Cloves Garlic 800 ml 28 oz can
  Peas 250 ml 1 Cup
  Salt 5 ml 1 tsp
  Cayenne Pepper 3 ml ½ tsp

Instructions:

  • In a dutch oven or large wok, heat oil.
  • Add the onion, raw rice, mushrooms, and peppers and sauté until vegetables are tender.
  • Add all other ingredients except parmesan cheese.
  • Cover, bring to a boil, and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes or until rice is tender.
  • Remove from heat and stir in parmesan cheese.
  • Spread over dehydrator trays (for dehydrator) or pammed cookie sheets (for oven drying), taking extra care to keep the mixture thin to speed up drying.
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In Camp:

 
This recipe adapted from High Trail Cookery, by Linda Frederick Yaffe.