Salad recipe "Paella"

There are salads that can be called traditional, and prepare them on any holidays. Sometimes these salads are greatly tired, this time I want something new, original and quite unusual. One of such original dishes is salad "Paella", which is similar in appearance and composition of the eponymous Italian dish

To prepare salad "Paella" will need the following set of components:

- long grain parboiled rice (1 full glass);

- fresh greens for decoration;

- chicken broth is not very concentrated (2 cups full);

- lemon, cut into segments (1 piece);

- green peas (320 g);

- Romaine lettuce (1/2 head);

- olive oil cold pressed (2 tablespoons);

- freshly squeezed lemon juice (3 tablespoons);

- red sweet pepper (1 piece);

fresh parsley chopped (1/2 Cup);

- onions (1 head);

tomato, large (1 piece);

shrimp are the largest, Royal, purified (360 g);

- ham (53 g);

- small, edible salt (to taste);

- garlic peeled and chopped (1 piece);

red pepper (1/4 tsp);

- dried thyme (1/4 tsp).

Put in the previously cooked chicken broth long grain washed rice, bring to medium heat to a boil, then reduce the heat, and then simmer until fully cooked contents of the pan. Until the rice is cooked in chicken broth, it is necessary to cut small and the same diced sweet red pepper, tomato, ham, chop the peeled onions.

Once the rice absorbed all the broth, in the pot with him should immediately remove from heat, pour canned or frozen green peas, cover the pan and briefly set aside. Pour in the required amount in a pan with nonstick olive oil to fry it to a faint Golden color chopped pepper and chopped onion.

Add a little flame at the burner, put in a pan peeled shrimp, which was previously sliced in half lengthwise, season the contents of the crushed red pepper and small salt according to your taste, sprinkle with additional dried thyme, continue cooking for another three minutes with regular stirring.

Chop the garlic and continue to cook ingredients for another one minute, then the rice mix with green peas, ham, shrimp halves, fresh lemon juice, parsley, tomatoes, cover the container with salad, cover and chill. Beautiful and a great dish to serve place the leaves of Romaine lettuce and put the rice salad decorated with fresh greens and lemon wedges.