Quick paella for one (Perfect Cooker Recipe)

When I'm in a hurry cooking just for me, the Perfect Cooker is a brilliant device. Just throw a bunch of ingredients in the cooking pot, press cook and dinner is ready in 20 minutes or so. I regularly cook something loosely based on paella in this with either pork, chicken or ham and whatever vegetables I have in the fridge. I try to always have a bag of prawns in the freezer, as these add a more authentic paella flavour to the dish.

John Holland @cook_25498087

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Ingredients

about 20 minutes

1 person - the size that fits in my Perfect Cooker

1/4 cuprice (I generally use basmati rice)
1/2 tsppaprika
1/4 tspchili powder
a fewdrops of fish sauce (or oyster sauce)
3/4 cupliquid - water, stock or whey
1/2pepper - sliced
1/2carrot sliced
1/2medium onion sliced (or a few spring onions)
2medium mushrooms, in thick slices
3-4 slicesham (or other meat)
a fewprawns (optional)
handfulspinach leaves or similar (optional)

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Steps

about 20 minutes

1

Put the rice in the Perfect Cooker pot, the spices and add the liquid. This can be any flavour of stock (chicken works well) or other cooking liquid. I made cheese at the weekend, so have quite a lot of whey left over, so I used whey in the recipe tonight instead of my usual chicken stock. The whey adds a much sweeter flavour, almost sweet and sour style.
2

Add sliced vegetables - peppers, carrots, onions and mushrooms work well. Mushrooms need to be in much chunkier slices than the other veg.
3

Add the meat (I used a few slices of ham cut into strips).
4

That's it - press "cook" on the Perfect Cooker.
5

You can leave it to complete cooking undisturbed, but I generally give it a stir after about 10 minutes to stop rice sticking to the bottom.
6

Throw the frozen prawns on top towards the end, so that they just warm through.
7

Spoon on to a plate/bowl top serve, and add the spinach leaves on top