Enjoy your Spanish dinner featuring shrimp, chicken, rice and ababy sweet peas – a hearty dinner ready in 15 minutes.
Quick Shrimp and Chicken Paella
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 15 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed saffron threads
- 1/3 cup hot water
- 3/4 lb uncooked deveined peeled medium shrimp, thawed if frozen, tail shells removed
- 1/2 lb uncooked chicken breast tenders (not breaded), cut crosswise into bite-size pieces
- 2 teaspoons salt-free southwest chipotle seasoning blend
- Butter-flavor cooking spray
- 2 packages (8.8 oz each) microwavable garden vegetable rice
- 1/2 cup frozen baby sweet peas (from 12-oz bag)
Instructions
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Step1In small bowl, mix saffron and hot water; set aside.
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Step2In large bowl, toss shrimp and chicken with seasoning blend until coated. Spray 12-inch skillet with butter-flavor cooking spray; heat over medium-high heat. Add shrimp mixture to skillet; spray mixture with cooking spray. Cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
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Step3Stir in saffron mixture, rice and peas, breaking up rice with wooden spoon. Cover; cook 3 minutes or until rice and peas are thoroughly heated, shrimp are pink and chicken is no longer pink in center. Fluff with fork.
Nutrition
485.5
Calories
7.3g
Total Fat
21.9g
Protein
80.4g
Total Carbohydrate
3.4g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 485.5
- Total Fat
- 7.3g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 0.3g
- 2%
- Cholesterol
- 86.9mg
- 29%
- Sodium
- 1269.4mg
- 53%
- Potassium
- 355.5mg
- 10%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 80.4g
- 27%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3.3g
- 13%
- Sugars
- 3.4g
- Protein
- 21.9g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 38.30%
- 38%
- Calcium
- 6%
- 6%
- Iron
- 11.40%
- 11%
Exchanges:
2 Starch; 2 Very Lean Meat;Carbohydrate Choice
2
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