How to cook Paella (Spanish Rice) PART 1 - cook paella like a rock star

Paella is a popular Spanish Rice Dish. The story about this dish is that the word Paella sound like "For he" but it really means Leftovers! Back in history, when the Arabs used to rule Spain, the queens son threw a party the night before his mother arrived to the castle. The poor cook ran out of food that night and when the queen arrived next day in the afternoon the young prince was stressed out that there would be nothing served for lunch. So the prince asked the cook to put something together and that's when the cook suggested Paella. So the cooked grabbed all the leftover fish, chicken, beef and rice and mixed them together ng fast for the hungry queen. With time, the word Paella became a popular Spanish dish. However, you dont get it now as leftover anymore, now a days is a delicacy!!

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[Platikum]

for the next time buddy.. try to use Olive Oil ;)

[rawnature06]

Thanks, I have used it before but I personally didn't like the flavour...

[TheReolus]

@rawnature06 You don't like the flavour of olive oil oh my god... what you cooked can't be called a spanish dish, if you didn't use olive oil. If you cooked paella in a restaurant without olive oil in spain many people would actually don't come back to your restaurant, and they would complain for sure.

[smb12321]

@Elenapcs When we were in Valencia we were told (by everyone from restaurants to regular people) that the "real" paella was either (1) rabbit & snails OR (2) seafood only OR (3) pork. Only a few recommended chicken. The only common element in every paella was olive oil, red bell pepper and arborio rice.

[Elenapcs]

La paella is from valencia (spain) and you dont use good igredients to do it

you have to spend 3 hours and only chicken

I know because Im from valencia

[BADINGNABODYBUILDER]

i looooove paella!!!

[acebpd]

that was great buddy next time change the camera view i saw your back most of the time

[SuaveSweetie]

wow, really awesome video! you have an extravagant personality that bubbles and makes the video enjoyable. You've got a happy personality with some nice personal touches such as your wine drinking, some insight on cultures, and you give your food your own special touch. I'm moving on to video 2 now, but this is honestly great. You've got a lot of the food network starts beat in natural presentation.

[rob825]

it sounds like for her, not for he ;)

[PorkoRoso]

Paella is one of my favourites dishes but you have to taste "cocido madrileño" and "fabada asturiana". They are easy to cook and really a good meal. Don´t forget that if you are cooking something from Spain, the olive oil is like the blood on your veins. Garlic and onion are very important too...

I tell you all that because i'm a Spaniard and I know what I say ;)

[EWalterJr]

This was a very helpful video man. You have a lot of charisma, so it was pretty fun to watch instead of being boring like most cooking videos.

I make mine a little different though because I'm from New Orleans. Instead of beef I use Andouille Sausage, and the seafood I use includes Crawfish, Oysters and Crabs.

[DJFearRoss]

The first person on Youtube to actually admit "this is not your traditional paella"... well done.