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Spanish Seafood Stew
This Spanish Seafood Stew post was developed to compliment the Spicy Spanish Style rice from Veetee. Veetee reached out to me to try their microwave ready rice flavors. For many of us, we do not have a lot of time to prepare weeknight meals. It is great to have an option that tastes good and is ready in 2 minutes. There are quite a variety of rice flavors that can be a good compliment to your weeknight dinner.
Spanish Seafood Stew
I love google. I was not familiar with many Spanish recipes to go with the rice. So I went to google and found this link. This is such a fun and tasty dish. The stew has wonderful spices including Spanish Smoked Sea Salt. The dish has such great texture from the fish, the rice, a black bean corn salsa, red and green cabbage and avocados. Creating recipes that our served in a bowl and have all these unique flavors is incredibly satisfying. The rice is wonderful because it adds flavor, and then, soaks up the broth of this stew.
This Spanish Seafood Stew is not hard to prepare. The flavor is developed in layers. The stew begins with sautéing onions, bell peppers, ancho chilies and garlic. Then, potatoes and paprika is added. The potatoes will add some starch to the broth thickening it up. Water is added to cook the potatoes and to also create flavored broth. Once the potatoes are soft. the seafood is added. I used salmon and cod. I also spiced the seafood prior to adding to the pot. The cooking is continued until the seafood is cooked through.
I am very pleased to share my experience testing this Veetee rice product with my readers and the readers of this post. This easy to prepare rice has a lot flavor and really good texture. Below is the directions to follow to have a chance to win your own Veetee rice care package.
The Veetee Rice package.
The seafood spices and the seafood spiced.
The Spanish Seafood Stew plated.
Spanish Seafood Stew
- 2 dried ancho chiles
- 1 pound fresh salmon, cut into 1" cubes
- 1 pound fresh cod, cut into 1" cubes
- 2 teaspoons Coarse salt
- 1 tablespoon Old Bay seasoning
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 5 medium russet potatoes
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 yellow onion, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and cut lengthwise into narrow strips
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1/4 of a red and green cabbage sliced
- 5 packages of Spanish Style Veetee rice
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- In a sauce pan, combine the dried chiles with boiling water to cover and cook for 5 - 10 minutes, or until soft.
- Drain the chiles, slit them open, and scrape off the flesh with the edge of a knife, discarding the seeds, skins, and stems, Set the flesh aside.
- Cut the salmon and cod into small pieces. Sprinkle the pieces with the salt, Old Bay and paprika and set aside.
- Peel the potatoes and cut into 1" cubes. and set aside.
- In a Dutch oven, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat.
- Add the onion, garlic, and bell pepper, and the flesh from the chiles, stir well, and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes, or until the onion and bell pepper have begun to soften and all the ingredients are well blended.
- Add the potatoes and paprika and mix well.
- Taste and season with a little salt if needed.
- Add water until it covers the ingredients by 2 inches.
- Bring to a boil, cover, decrease the heat to medium-low, and cook for about 30 minutes, or until the potatoes are fork-tender.
- Add the seafood pieces to the pot and simmer for 5 minutes, or until the seafood is cooked through.
- Meanwhile, place 5 packages the Veetee rice in the microwave and cook for 2 to 2 1/2 minutes.
- Remove from the containers and add to a stockpot.
- Add in the chicken stock and mix well.
- Create the bowl by adding in the seafood stew, the Veetee rice, the black bean corn salsa, cabbage and the avocados.
We love Spanish food and your seafood stew looks amazing. A must-try for sure!
Thx so much Linda.
Love everything about this recipe and then you slid in the avos and that takes it over the edge for me, YUM!!
Thank you so much Tara.
We are obsessed with Spanish cuisine and we love Spanish rice. This looks absolutely delicious. You’ve given us something new to try at home again!
I am so pleased. Spanish food has so many good spices in it.
Looks like something I would have eaten when I was in Spain!
Then I must have done something right. Thx Kristen.
Hi Peter What a yum recipe.. We love spanish flavours in our house and always on the look out for a new way with rice..One of my hidden treasures is my Old Bay Seasoning.. I get it from an a specialised shop in Dublin that sells american food
I love this blogging experience that connects me with people all over the world. So cool that you found a shop that sells Old Bay.
This is right up my alley! I can’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing, Peter.
Thx Dana.
This looks so good! I want a bowl of this NOW!
Thx Natasha.
This looks wonderful, Peter. You’ve introduced us to some great new flavor idea here, will definitely be looking for some of this great looking rice from Veetee!
Thx Dan. They have a fair bit of variety. So please try for the giveaway.
This looks great! I love the seafood and the Spanish flavors in this!
Thx Annemarie.
The flavors in these sound unbelievable! I will definitely be trying it soon!!! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Thx Sarah. Lot’s of flavors in this dish.
These are my favourite kind of meals and this one looks just fantastic.
Thx Cristie.
I eat soooooo many stews but somehow they all have meat rather than fish in them. I must change this.
I am just like you. This is a rare time using fish and I need to use fish more often.
Sounds delicious, Peter! It’s great to take advantage of convenience items to making cooking a little bit easier 🙂
Every once in a while, semi-homemade is so worth it.
I’m not sure what Old Bay seasoning is or Spanish salt, but I’ll look out for them. I love the smokey paprika flavours in Spanish cooking. Nice wiht the avocado, too
Old Bay is a very typical spice you see in New England and especially Maryland for crab. It is my go to spice for fish. You need to give it a try.
This sounds so utterly fantastic! Love the avocado served alongside too.
The avocado adds great color and texture to the dish.
This is a great looking stew Peter. I love all of the different colors. And those spices? So Spanish.
Thx Mark. Good spices and I always like to make a dish visually interesting as well.
Adore all the Spanish flavours in this dish! So deliciously colourful. I use smoked sea salt, but had not heard of Spanish sea salt. What’s the difference?
Thx Jacqueline. Where do you find your smoked sea salt?
I love that you use Old Bay in this recipe! It’s one of my favorite blends for chicken and seafood and so often overlooked for seasoning packets that contain who knows what. I like to sprinkle it over avocados with cottage cheese for lunch. I can imagine how good it is in this recipe!!
Interesting. I will need to tell my wife about trying it on cottage cheese and avocados.
This looks so delicious! I’ve never tried fish in a stew like this before but I love how you incorporated both salmon and cod in this dish.
Thx so much Diana.
Looks so good! Love the addition of potatoes!
Thx Florian.
Any Fish or Seafood recipe is going to shoot my list of MUST COOK recipes! This is such a beautiful dish and looks so comforting! I love spanish flavors so I know I will love it!
Thank you so much Dini.
This looks like an amazing one bowl meal. All the colors and flavors! We are big salmon eaters in our house, so I will have to try this.
Please let me know if you do try this dish. Send pics.
This looks so delicious and healthy and I want it for lunch!
It is tasty and healthy.
This looks absolutely amazing! I’ve never heard of Spanish Smoked Sea Salt but I want to try it immediately! Beautiful pictures by the way 🙂
It is a cool spice. I found it at a store. I did not go looking for it.