Black Rice With Squid

This Spanish Black Rice Paella with Squid Ink Based Broth is truly what Spanish cuisine is all about. Loaded with Mediterranean flavors, easy to make and done in about 45 minutes. You will find this dish in almost every seaside restaurant up and down the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

To make this black rice paella I used a paella pan. If you don´t have a paella pan you can use any type of frying pan. Here is a post where I show you how to cook a paella without a paella pan. But if you can, use a paella pan to make this dish, it gives the rice the perfect texture.

In this recipe I used a small 1/4 ounce (4 grams) packet of squid ink. This ingredient is very popular here in Spain and is essential in this dish. If you can´t find squid ink in your area, check with a local Asian supermarket, they usually have it in the freezer department next to the cleaned tubes of squid.

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Since this is a Spanish rice dish, it is very important to use a high-quality saffron, as this is what really flavors this black rice paella. For this recipe I used saffron threads from Cyrus Saffron. Their saffron is truly some grade 1 high-quality premium saffron. With so much fraud saffron out there, it´s hard to find a decent brand, but these guys over atCyrus Saffron are doing an amazing job.

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