Easy Vegan Paella Recipe

This week officially marks the 1 month anniversary of me becoming a Vegetarian. Over the past 6 months or so, I have been finding meat less and less desirable and honestly just really wasn’t enjoying eating meat. I normally eat really well and if you follow my blog or my Instagram food account, you may know that I’m always creating homemade meals for my family that are full of goodness and nutrients. I occasionally still make dinner for the family using meat but for myself I will, on those days, make myself a vegetarian version. However, this is becoming very rare now and my family now enjoy my vegetarian alternative meals.

NOT QUITE VEGAN YET

Even though I don’t use milk, I am still consuming cheese and cream and eventually I would like to go vegan but because of my health issues, I’m taking one step at a time so I don’t do too much, too soon so my body doesn’t freak out. I will be sharing a post soon about my vegetarian journey so (if you are interested) keep an eye out for that very soon.

PAELLA FAMILY FAVOURITE

Paella is one of my children’s favourite meals and I have my go to recipe which you can see here. The recipe includes, chorizo, chicken and prawns. Now that I am vegetarian obviously I won’t be making this paella for myself so I created a new recipe, which is not only vegetarian friendly but vegan friendly too.

This recipe is very similar to the original but I’ve obviously changed up what ingredients I have used and also some of the quantities of other ingredients.

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Easy Vegan Paella Recipe

A vegan twist of a paella classic - easy recipe for the whole family to enjoy

Course Main Course

Cuisine Spanish

Keyword Paella, Vegan

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Servings 4 people

Author Pinar Rawlins

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp Olive Oil
• 1 Garlic cloves finely slices and chopped
• 1 White Onion diced
• 2 Carrots peeled and sliced small
• 1 Yellow or Red Bell Pepper sliced or chopped
• 8 Vegan Sausage/ Vegan Chorizo or your choice of Vegan Sausage chopped into pieces
• 1 tsp Fresh Parsley Stalks chopped
• 1 tbsp Smoked Paprika
• 1 tbsp Tomato Purée heaped spoon
• 250 g Paella Rice
• 1 Vegetable Stock Cube dissolved in 1/2 litre of boiling water
• 150 g Frozen Peas

To Serve

• 1 Large Lemon cut into wedges
• Parsley Leaves roughly chopped

Instructions

1. In a large wok, casserole pot or a large pan with a lid, pour in a few tablespoons of olive oil over a medium heat

2. Add the parsley stalks, garlic, onion, peppers and vegan sausage and sprinkle over the smoked paprika and mix well - cooked until soft - 5 minutes or so

3. Stir through the tomato purée

4. Add the paella rice and stir through for a few minutes

5. Pour in the vegetable stock, add the frozen peas and season with a little salt and pepper and stir well

6. Bring to the boil and cover, simmer on a low heat for around 15-20 minutes

   Make sure to stir regularly from inside out and outside in for the paella rice to cook through evenly (add a splash of boiling water if it starts to stick or the rice is still not cooked - you may need to do this a couple of times to ensure the rice is cooked)

7. Once the paella rice is cooked (soft not crunchy) remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle over the parsley and serve with the lemon wedges

8. Enjoy with a leafy greens salad

I plan to create some more easy and family friendly, vegetarian recipes on Beauty Baking Bella this year. If you have any requests please let me know in the comments.

If you are looking for some food inspiration please check out my Instagram @pinarcooks, I like to post daily and Instagram story what I am cooking up.

Pinar xo