Indulge in the vibrant flavors of saffron rice, succulent shrimp, and tender scallops in this delectable dish that promises an unforgettable culinary experience. The aromatic basmati rice, infused with the golden hue and earthy essence of saffron, creates a captivating foundation for the plump shrimp and sweet scallops. Each bite offers a symphony of textures, from the fluffy rice to the tender seafood, complemented by a harmonious blend of spices and herbs. This exceptional recipe elevates the classic seafood and rice combination to new heights, making it an ideal centerpiece for special occasions or a delightful weeknight meal. Additionally, we present variations of this dish to cater to diverse preferences, including a vegetarian alternative featuring roasted vegetables and a spicy rendition with the addition of chili peppers. Explore the culinary journey and discover your perfect match among these flavorful recipes.
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SPANISH SAFFRON RICE WITH GARLIC SHRIMP
Steps:
- Heat a large fry pan with a medium-high heat and add in a generous 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, after 1 minute add in 2 cloves garlic thinly sliced and mix with the olive oil, after 45 to 60 seconds add in 12 raw jumbo shrimp (peeled & deveined and seasoned with sea salt & black pepper), mix the shrimps around with the garlic, 1 minute later remove the shrimps & garlic from the pan and set aside
- Using the same pan with the same heat add in 1/2 onion finely diced and mix with the olive oil, 1 minute later add in 4 cloves garlic finely minced and continue to mix, 30 seconds later add in 1 cup of round rice, 1/4 cup frozen peas, 1/2 teaspoon sweet smoked paprika, 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads and season with sea salt & black pepper, mix it all together until well combined, then add in 3 cups vegetable broth, give it a mix so everything is evenly divided, you can mix once in a while, just don´t over mix, otherwise the rice will lose it´s texture
- About 10 minutes after adding the broth, add in the garlic shrimp and evenly spread them out, after this step don´t mix the rice anymore, simmer on a medium-high heat for another 4 to 5 minutes, or until the broth has been fully incorporated into the rice, remove the pan from the heat and serve at once, enjoy!
SCALLOPS & SHRIMP WITH YELLOW RICE
Bright, colorful and weeknight-simple, this seafood entree is special enough to serve company, too. Lillian Charves - New Bern, North Carolina
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 30m
Yield 4 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a large nonstick skillet, saute onion in oil until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Add rice and turmeric; stir to coat. Stir in broth and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until rice is tender., Stir in the remaining ingredients; return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until shrimp turn pink.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 349 calories, Fat 5g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 88mg cholesterol, Sodium 646mg sodium, Carbohydrate 48g carbohydrate (4g sugars, Fiber 3g fiber), Protein 26g protein. Diabetic Exchanges
SAFFRON RICE WITH SHRIMP AND SCALLOPS
This is a spectacular main dish for a very special occasion. The ingredients are pricey, but for a celebration, or sure-fire impressive entrée, this is the ticket. Just make sure not to over-cook it.
Provided by RSHDiva
Categories Low Protein
Time 55m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Cut the roasted and peeled peppers into 1/2 inch dice and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 325.
- In an ovenproof frying pan or a paella pan about 12 inches in diameter, warm the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and saute, stirring, until soft, about 10 minutes. Add the rice and parsley and cook, stirring, until the rice is evenly coated with oil, about 2 minutes. Add the bell peppers, wine, stock, tomatoes, saffron and water, turmeric, salt and ground pepper. Boil gently, uncovered, for 5 minutes.
- Bury the shrimp and scallops in the rice. Place in the oven and bake, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Cover and continue to bake until the rice is tender and the seafood is cooked, about 10 minutes longer. Remove from the oven and let stand for 10 minutes.
- Garnish with lemon wedges and serve.
- Serves 6.
PASTA WITH SAFFRON SHRIMP AND SCALLOPS
Steps:
- The day before the party, make the base for the pasta seafood topping. Melt the butter in a skillet. When the foaming subsides, add the shallots, carrot and celery. Cover and cook over low heat for 10 to 15 minutes or until very tender and almost dissolved in butter. (If at any time the vegetables begin to stick to the skillet, add a tablespoonful of water or wine.) Uncover the skillet, add the saffron and white wine and boil over high heat until almost all of the wine has evaporated. Add the fish stock and simmer for 5 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper (do in advance up to this point.) Boil the pasta until al dente. While this is cooking, add the heavy cream to the skillet and simmer again until the sauce is slightly thickened. Add the shrimp and scallops and simmer just until the seafood is cooked through. Add the tomatoes and simmer just for a minute to warm them through without really cooking them. Adjust the seasoning. Drain the pasta and portion it out among 6 warm pasta bowls. Ladle the saffron seafood sauce over the top and garnish with warm microwaved peas.
SAUTéED SHRIMP WITH GARLIC AND SAFFRON
Provided by Mark Bittman
Categories dinner, easy, lunch, quick, main course
Time 15m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Put 1/4 cup olive oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat.
- Add 3 sliced garlic cloves, and cook until golden.
- Stir in 1 1/2 pounds peeled shrimp, 1 teaspoon each smoked paprika and ground cumin and a pinch of saffron (optional).
- Cook, turning the shrimp once or twice, until they are pink, 5 to 10 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 165, UnsaturatedFat 8 grams, Carbohydrate 2 grams, Fat 10 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 16 grams, SaturatedFat 2 grams, Sodium 644 milligrams, Sugar 0 grams, TransFat 0 grams
SAFFRON ARROZ CON CAMARONES (SAFFRON RICE WITH SHRIMP)
This is another Cuban recipe I picked up. It is outstanding. You can go with regular white rice here, but breakdown and buy the Valencia rice online if you don't have it locally. It holds more liquid and gives your meal a more authentic look
Provided by PJ991092
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 55m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Shell, devein and refrigerate shrimp.
- Place shrimp shells in a saucepan with the water and boil about 15 minutes. Strain and reserve 3 cups of the water (adjust for serving changes). Discard the shells.
- In a shallow pan, heat the oil over medium heat until fragrant and saute shrimp quickly, just until they turn pink. Refrigerate again.
- In the same oil, saute the onion and bell pepper until onion is translucent, about 3 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook another 2 minutes. Stir in the tomato sauce, wine, salt, pepper, saffron, cumin, oregano and bay leaf and cook for a few more minutes.
- Add the rice and the reserved shrimp water. Bring just to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover the pan and cook gently for about 30 minutes until the rice is tender and almost dry. Add the shrimp 5 minutes before the rice is done.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 598.3, Fat 26, SaturatedFat 3.6, Cholesterol 191, Sodium 1362, Carbohydrate 60.1, Fiber 3.2, Sugar 2.8, Protein 25.9
SAFFRON RISOTTO WITH SCALLOPS
The focus here is on bay scallops, which are smaller than their ocean counterparts and bring a briny sweetness to any dish. It is worth saving fish heads and shrimp shells to make seafood stock, but if homemade is not available, the store-bought kind will do. Watch the cooking time -- the rice should be served al dente. (The New York Times)
Provided by Florence Fabricant
Categories dinner, main course
Time 40m
Yield 4 to 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat butter in heavy three-quart saucepan. Add onion and saute over medium heat until translucent but not brown. Stir in rice and cook, stirring, until grains turn white. Stir in wine and cook, stirring, for five minutes, until most of the wine has evaporated.
- Meanwhile, place the saffron in a small dish and pour a cup of the hot stock over it.
- When most of the wine has evaporated, stir in a half cup of the stock and adjust the heat so the mixture cooks at a steady simmer. When most of that stock has evaporated, stir in the stock with the saffron and continue to cook, stirring frequently.
- Continue adding stock, about a half cup at a time, stirring frequently, until the rice is just barely tender, about 15 minutes longer. You may not need to add all the remaining stock.
- Stir in scallops. Continue cooking, stirring gently, another three to five minutes, until rice is al dente and scallops are cooked. Add a little stock if necessary. Season to taste with salt and red pepper flakes; serve at once.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 299, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 44 grams, Fat 4 grams, Fiber 2 grams, Protein 17 grams, SaturatedFat 2 grams, Sodium 791 milligrams, Sugar 1 gram, TransFat 0 grams
GENERAL TSO'S SHRIMP AND SCALLOPS WITH BROCCOLI AND SAFFRON RICE
My whole family loves General Tso ANYTHING. It took me forever to figure out how to get (almost) the same flavor as in the restaurants, but I did, although there are a LOT of shortcuts to this recipe, and no breading. It all hangs together in the finished product, tho, and my family loves it. Hope you will too. You can...
Provided by Kathy Olinger
Categories Seafood
Time 1h
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- 1. Measure 3 1/2 Cups water into large pan, bring to good boil on highest temp. Add butter and rice. Reduce heat to low (1 or 2 on an electric burner, or set fire to just inside the edge of pan if using gas.) Cover, simmer about 20 minutes.
- 2. As soon as rice is simmering, rinse shrimp, scallops, and broccoli under warm water, separately, to remove all traces of ice and to finish thawing gently. NOTE: Be very careful of the way you handle scallops because they fall apart easily. Also you can devein and peel shrimp at this time, if necessary.
- 3. Place large DRY chicken fryer, frypan, or wok on burner, set temp to medium high (fryers) or high (wok.) After pan is hot, add oils. Allow oil to blend, and come to hot temp, without scorching. A wok can continue at highest temp as long as it does not smoke, but fryers should be turned to stage 6 or 7 on elec stove gauge, at the highest, to prevent overheating. CAUTION: many traditional woks are round bottomed, use care with these if you have small children underfoot while cooking, or use a flat bottomed pan or frypan until they are older.
- 4. When oil is hot, add shrimp, stirfry until shrimp is lightly browned. Remove from pan with a strainer spoon, set aside in large bowl.
- 5. Add scallops to oil, fry until lightly browned, turn gently, continuing until lightly browned on all sides. Remove from pan with strainer spoon, set aside in same bowl as shrimp.
- 6. Add broccoli to oil, stirfry until broccoli is softened but not limp. Remove from oil with strainer spoon while it still retains bright color, and set aside with shrimp and scallops.
- 7. Empty most of the oil from the pan and return it to the heat, turning the temperature of the burner down to about medium. It is not necessary to scrape or clean the pan at this point, as what oil remains will add flavor to the sauce.
- 8. Add full bottle of General Tso sauce to oil in pan, adding the additional 1/4 C warm water to bottle, and shaking to remove remaining sauce from sides of bottle. Add this liquid to pan.
- 9. Add sugar or honey to sauce in pan. Add optional red hot pepper flakes if desired, to taste. Stir.
- 10. Bring to a rolling boil, allow to thicken by keeping at a rolling boil approximately 2 or 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until extra water has evaporated, and sugar has melted into the sauce as it thickens.
- 11. Reduce heat to low (1 or 2) and return shrimp, scallops and broccoli to sauce in pan. Turn gently to fully coat all pieces with the sauce.
- 12. Rice should be done. Fluff with a fork.
- 13. Serve together, either serving Tso on a bed of rice, or serve them side by side. (There should be plenty of extra sauce to flavor rice, if desired.)
Tips:
- For the best flavor, use fresh shrimp and scallops.
- If you don't have saffron, you can substitute another spice, such as turmeric or paprika.
- The rice can be cooked in a rice cooker or on the stovetop.
- If you are using a rice cooker, rinse the rice before cooking.
- If you are cooking the rice on the stovetop, bring the water to a boil before adding the rice.
- Once the rice is cooked, let it rest for a few minutes before serving.
- Garnish the saffron rice with fresh herbs, such as cilantro or parsley.
Conclusion:
Saffron rice with shrimp and scallops is a delicious and easy-to-make dish that is perfect for a special occasion. The saffron gives the rice a vibrant color and a delicate flavor, while the shrimp and scallops add a touch of luxury. This dish is sure to impress your guests, and it is also a great way to use up leftover rice.
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