I have made my version of paella for many years. Well maybe I should call it a Spanish inspired rice dish, rather than paella.
Recently I have been using a jar of paella paste from Waitrose when cooking paella, however it looks like they have stopped selling it. M&S have stopped selling their paste as well, and Tesco haven’t sold their paella seasoning for a couple of years now. I wouldn’t buy the Schwartz paella seasoning as it uses turmeric rather than saffron. I have been known to creating my own “seasoning” using saffron and I did think I would have to go down that road. It was suggested to me to look on Amazon, so I did, and found some paella seasoning. I ordered some. The Carmencita Paellero Paella Spice Mix is according to the description the number one selling spice mix in Spain.
I used it when cooking a paella and was pleased with the end result. It looked excellent.
It also tasted great when we had it with our New Year fish supper. It is something I would use again and will order more once I run out.