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Seafood Paella, Tomato Base
Mykola Verbytskyi
Head chef, Prymorskyi Bistro, Odesa, UA
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Seafood Paella, Tomato Base

1 h total45 min hands-onServes 2Medium

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Arborio rice with mussel meat, squid and its tentacles, baby scallops and tiger prawns in tomato, parmesan, cherry tomatoes and Sicilian crumbs.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Wide heavy pan, Ladle, Small pot for hot stock, Wooden spoon
Allergens
Gluten, Milk, Crustaceans, Molluscs
Method
15 steps · 12 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 12 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Hot stock

Stock kept at a bare simmer beside the pan and added one ladle at a time.

Cold stock stops the rice every time it goes in. Hot stock keeps it cooking and keeps the starch coming out.

  • Stock000 g
  • Onion000 g
Steps
3
Time
30 min
Hands-on
5 min

Makes 1 litre

Up to 3 days ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Toasted rice

Film

Rice stirred in fat until the grains turn glassy at the edge before any liquid touches it.

Untoasted rice goes to porridge. The toasting is what keeps each grain separate inside the cream.

  • Arborio rice000 g
  • Butter000 g
Steps
2
Time
5 min
Hands-on
5 min

Makes For 2 plates

No

Weights and method unlock on purchase
WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Arborio rice000 g
  • Mussels000 g
  • Squid000 g
  • Squid tentacles000 g
  • Baby scallops000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 12 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING4:00

Carnaroli, arborio and bomba: which rice for which dish

TECHNIQUE5:00

The stir, the ladle and reading the wave

KIT3:00

Pan width and why a tall pot fails

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 15 STEPS

12 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 12 of the 15 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: stopping while the rice still has a bite — step 9 of 15.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 9 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Mykola Verbytskyi watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Stock hot, always

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Off the heat for the last stir

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Serving on warm plates within a minute

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The stock temperature, the stirring rhythm and when the pan comes off so the rice keeps moving on the plate.

Written by Mykola Verbytskyi. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

Read it — $0.99

NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

6 verified cooks · 94% said it worked

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