Paella fried rice

Paella fried rice

A great dish when you fancy a taste of the med in an instant. This cheat's paella is as authentic as you can be in 10 minutes!

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 5 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 mins

Low-fat

Method

  1. Heat oil in a frying pan. Tip in the chorizo, onion and garlic, then cook for a couple of mins until softened. Stir through turmeric, followed by the rice, prawns and peas and 150ml boiling water.
  2. Keep stirring until everything is warmed through and the water has been absorbed. Serve with lemon wedges.

Per serving

347 kcalories, protein 20.0g, carbohydrate 50.0g, fat 9.0 g, saturated fat 2.0g, fibre 2.0g, sugar 3.0g, salt 1.19 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2008.

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  • 23 August 2010

    alipali commented on this recipe

    It's not really paella.

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  • 01 September 2010

    traineechef84 commented on this recipe

    loved this!!! really easy as a simple dinner if u have been working

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  • 10 February 2011

    Victoria rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    It's ok, healthy and easy but not staggeringly tasty.

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  • 13 February 2011

    New Cook rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Loved this rice dish. Great as a side dish to BBQ prawns or fish. Served to friends and they wanted to recipe to try for themselves.

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  • 06 April 2011

    AndrewRitchie1985 rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Don't know if it is because I under-seasoned it, or because I could not find proper chroizo, or just because it is a bad recipe but I found this dish bland and couldn't even finish it...very disappointing

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  • 06 April 2011

    K8 GDY rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This is probably the quickest meal I have ever made! It's definitely not the real paella but give it a break - fried rice is in the title too!! I used diced chorizo for ease and added frozen raw prawns instead so took a little longer than 5 mins to cook. However, overall a really easy and quick mid-week meal. Plenty of seasoning and lemon juice required though!

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  • 04 September 2011

    kayleigh25 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Made this for tea tonight - I read other comments and added 1 tsp of tumeric instead of half and also used chicken stock with the rice. Such an easy recipe and tasted lovely - my partner also loved it!

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  • 19 October 2011

    Daniel rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    A really nice recipe. Very easy to cook, very tasty and very quick. A lovely dinner that the whole family enjoyed :)

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  • 06 November 2011

    Tanja Mc rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious and so easy, whole family loved it. Added extra chorizo and chicken stock, really tasty.

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  • 15 November 2011

    Serona commented on this recipe

    made this dish tonight used spicy chorizo added some left over gammon and cooked rice in stock as suggested, pefect meal that was quick and loved by adults and kids alike. Next time may use frozen seafood mix instead of just prawns.

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  • 15 November 2011

    Serona rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

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  • 04 January 2012

    Rebecca rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    The dish was lovely but I am appalled at the calorie-counting. My daughter is ill and we have to check she gets a certain number of calories per day, she looked at this recipe and said there's no way this could be 347 calories so I worked it out from the packets, using 250g chorizo and only 400g rice and it came to 778 calories per portion?! Because of the I am VERY dissapointed.

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  • 28 January 2012

    jessilou commented on this recipe

    Paella or not, it is fab. We had with chopped tomatoes, extra lemon and garlic, mixed veg instead of peas and 2 diced chicken breasts instead of chorizo. Basically, a different recipe, but defo try it - even the kids wanted more - great way to shove some veg down their beaks.

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  • 02 February 2012

    andylaff commented on this recipe

    not a paella but really easy and quick

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  • 19 February 2012

    lol.sally rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Much quicker than authentic paella for midweek meal and just as tasty.

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  • 19 March 2012

    EmilyD commented on this recipe

    Lovely - but please bear in mind that it is 600g of COOKED rice, which is considerably less that 600g of uncooked rice!

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  • 22 April 2012

    MattJam rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very very easy and very tasty. Really mustn't scrimp on the chorizo though and next time I'll add some mushrooms for a bit more veg

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  • 28 June 2012

    missjeanbrodie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Definitely a 'keeper' as we say in our house. Really easy midweek meal, very tasty indeed.

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  • 12 August 2012

    Grainne97 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Yum! Be careful with the water, I added too much the first time and washed out the taste a bit!

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  • 23 September 2012

    Josh rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    The recipe asks for cooked rice, but then tells you to add water whilst cooking. I imagine you should use uncooked rice in this recipe, this needs changing.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 5 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 mins

Low-fat

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Per serving

347 kcalories, protein 20.0g, carbohydrate 50.0g, fat 9.0 g, saturated fat 2.0g, fibre 2.0g, sugar 3.0g, salt 1.19 g

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