Valencian seafood fideuá recipe

The seafood fideuá is a typical Valencian dish, very similar to paella. It is a very versatile dish since we can prepare it with seafood, meat, vegetables, mushrooms… since it admits many variants.

In addition, it is a very simple dish, but whether it turns out well depends on the quality of the ingredients. The fideuá recipe depends on a lot on the broth that is used, so if we prepare it at home it will always be better, although we can use those that are already prepared.

This time I bring a simple Valencian seafood fideuá with few ingredients, prawns and cuttlefish, very rich and with a lot of flavor.

Ingredients to make Valencian seafood fideuá:

• 400 grams of Nº2 Noodles
• 1 cuttlefish unit
• 300 grams of Prawns
• 2 garlic cloves
• 300 grams of crushed tomato
• 1 teaspoon of sweet paprika
• 1 splash of olive oil
• 1 pinch of salt
• For the fish brother:
• 1 bag of fish bones
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 branch of parsley
• 1 pinch of salt
• ½ Prawn shells
• 1½ liters of water

How to make Valencian seafood fideuá:

1. To start preparing this Valencian seafood fideuá, the first thing to do is prepare the fish broth or fumet to do this, we peel half of the prawns, removing their heads and reserving the meat.
2. Then in a casserole we put a little oil, add a couple of chopped garlic and sauté the shells of the prawns and the heads.
3. When we see that the seafood has released its entire flavor, we add the fish bones, cover with the water, add a sprig of parsley and a couple of garlic cloves and let it cook for about 20 minutes.
4. On the other hand we prepare the noodlesfor the seafood fideuá: in a wide pan, we put a trickle of oil, we fry the noodles in small batches, just that they take on a little color, we take them out and reserve them. As it is going to be a fideuá recipe with thin noodles, I have used nº2 noodles.
5. Tip:When frying them, the noodles no longer go bad and as the fish broth dries up, the noodles will stand on end.
6. Once the noodles are in the same paella, we prepare the stir-fry. We put a couple of chopped garlic and before they brown we put the crushed tomato, let it cook for 5-6 minutes.
7. Next, we put the cuttlefish cut into pieces and the peeled prawns. We sauté everything together and add the 1/2 teaspoon of paprika.
8. We strain the fish broth on one side and on the other we put the noodles spread over the paella of the seafood fideuá, then we cover them with the broth.
9. We tasted salt and rectified. Let the easy Valencian fideuá cook and when we see that there is little brother left, add the remaining prawnsin their shells.
10. Let the Valencian seafood fideuáfinish cooking until it is dry and the noodles start to stand on end
11. All that remains is to accompany it with homemade aioli as is typical and that’s it