{"id":231257,"date":"2023-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/recipe-paella-of-alghero\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:11:01","slug":"recipe-paella-of-alghero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/traditional-cooking\/recipe-paella-of-alghero\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: paella of Alghero"},"content":{"rendered":"

In essence, what differentiates the paella of Alghero<\/strong><\/a> to the Spanish one is the use of the fregula instead of rice. But not only: this typical first course of Alghero, a seaside village located on the north-western coast of Sardinia, uses\u00a0also della bottarga and Sardinian sausage. Unlike what you might think at first glance, this specialty is very recent: it dates back to 2003 and was prepared for the first time during the celebrations for the city’s 900th anniversary. Sardinia, and in particular Alghero, underwent Hispanic domination for almost four centuries. This is why the Algherese paella is the gastronomic expression of the cultural contamination between Catalonia and Sardinia.<\/p>\n

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Ingredients<\/h3>\n

200 g sausage
\n300 g prawns
\n500 g mussels
\n200 g squid
\n300 g chicken
\n400 g tomatoes
\nOne pepper
\nChicken stock
\n40 g mullet bottarga
\nSaffron
\n200 g peas
\n5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
\n400 g Sardinian fregola
\nSalt to taste
\nBlack peppercorns to taste<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Process<\/h3>\n

Cook the mussels in a pan. In the classic pan “da paella” we fry the onion in extra virgin olive oil. Add the crumbled sausage and chopped chicken breast. After a few minutes, add the yellow pepper, always cut into small pieces. Then we add, following this order: tomatoes, peas, saffron dissolved in a little broth and finally fregula. Vegetable broth should be added continuously to prevent the ingredients from burning. After the cooking time of the fregula, we add the squid cut into rings. Then, after 5 minutes, we also cut the prawns, fading with the water from the mussels. At this point we add the mussels, removing the valve without a shellfish. At the end of cooking, we give a nice sprinkling of mullet bottarga and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.<\/p>\n

…enjoy your meal!
\nPhoto by Ricette di Sardegna<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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