What is the Paella?
Paella is a typical Spanish food. The main ingredient is rice coloured with species. Moreover, it use to contain chicken meat, prawns, seafood, green peas, etc. We have different kinds of paella, so there are paellas that has meat more than fish, and there are other paellas that has fish more than meat, etc. Anyway, the biggest paellas are made in Valencia.
Those paellas are so huge that they need several people to prepare them!
Origins of Paella
Linguists believe that the word paella comes from the name of the pan it is made in - the Latin term patella, a flat plate on which offerings were made to the Gods.
It was in the
mid-nineteenth century that modern paella was created in an area
around Albufera (a fresh water lagoon near the city of Valencia). At
lunch time, workers in the fields would make the rice dish in a flat pan
over a fire,, mixing in whatever they could find.
Source: about.com
Curious origin, without any doubt! And now it's so delicious :D
¡Que tengas un buen día!
Have a good day!
