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= Paella =

Paella is a Spanish rice dish. It is cooked in almost every region of Spain. There are many ways of cooking paella. You can cook it many ways like with chicken, pork, shellfish, fish, eel, squid, beans, peas, artichokes, and peppers. The spice saffron is a very essential part of the Spanish dish, paella. The word paella came from the latin word //patella// which means pan.

= History of paella﻿ =

Paella all started a long time ago, when Moorish servants made rice dishes by mixing the left overs of royal banquets of the king and queen. They would cook it in a large shallow pot. It wasn't until the 19th century that the word paella came about. Workers in the fields would mix rice and anything they could find like snails and vegetables. On special occasions chicken and rabbit were added. They would cook in a flat pan over a fire. That is how the delicious spanish dish paella came to be.



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