Paella is not a rice dish for everyday, but a sharing dish. Paella recipes are such an earnest business that they are traditionally cooked on Sundays, important festivities, special family celebrations, or on any occasion where people get together for the sake of enjoying each other's company. Paella recipes are not particularly trying, but they ask for diligence. You have to know your paella ingredients, especially the rice, the water proportion, and the wood fire or heat source well.The ingredients have to be prepared before you start cooking. And once you start, you have to concentrate in the paella only, and keep adding ingredients in the proper sequence until the paella is done. Paella recipes don't allow you to stop for a while, remove the paella pan from the heat source, and continue later where you left it. If you do that, you will get some sort of unsavory rice paste. To be honest, some of the paella dishes that you get in restaurants outside the Mediterranean region are almost unedible. Luckily, this is changing, because people everywhere are becoming better gourmets every day. As with everything, you learn by comparison, and once you cook some paellas yourself, no restaurant will be able to cheat you. Here you can buy authentic paella pans, which are inexpensive. Selection of tasty paella recipes
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