My absolute favourite meal is paella & one with a good crust on the bottom too.... So how do you get that in the thermomix?? 

Well it's a good helper at chopping, sauteing & heating and the rest is done in a paella pan to get a good crust because that's what it's all about. 

I love this dish because of its flavours & healthy bone broth use plus of course all the veggies. 

You can serve this on top of baby spinach if you want an extra bit of green. 

Ingredients 

• 1 onion, halved
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 celery stalks, roughly chopped
• 2 carrots, roughly chopped
• 1 capsicum, deseeded & roughly chopped
• 5 mushrooms
• Handful of parsley
• 300g Arborio rice
• 25g bone broth fat or oil
• 200g bacon, chopped
• 2 chorizo sausages, sliced
• Large pinch saffron
• 1 tsp Hungarian paprika
• 2 Tbs tomato paste
• 750g bone broth or stock (if using unsalted broth add chicken or vegetable stock paste)
• 100g peas

1. Place all veggies into your thermomix bowl including parsley. Chop for 5 seconds speed 6. Add oil or bone broth fat & sautee for 5 minutes 100° speed 2.

2. While this is sauteing heat and your paella pan on medium heat. Add bacon straight to the pan, yep no oil. Your bacon has fat on it. Cook stirring while the veggies saute.

3. When the timer chimes add rice & stock & cook for 7 minutes 100°. While this is cooking add saffron & chorizo to the bacon in the pan stirring often.

4. With 1 minute left on the thermomix timer add tomato paste & stir in well.

5. Carefully pour the soupy mixture into your paella pan & stir carefully to combine all the flavours.

6. Now to create that crust..... Leave your pan on medium heat & cook for 10 minutes stirring once half way. Turn your oven on. 

7. Cover with alfoil and put into an oven that's preheated for 20minutes. Take alfoil off,  sprinkle with peas (I don't weigh mine it's just an even sprinkle) turn oven off & leave for 5 minutes before serving.