Seafood Paella with NZ Green lip mussels

Ingredients
1 onion finely chopped
1 red or green pepper - deseeded and roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic - chopped or crushed
1 litre chicken stock
2 cups rice (spanish rice if you can get it or substitute with medium grain or arborio rice)
Olive oil
3 or 4 large ripe tomatoes roughly chopped
Fresh parsley - chopped
1 or 2 fillets firm white fleshed fish of your choice cut into cubes
1kg mussels - cleaned and steamed open
500g raw prawns (either peeled with tails on or in the shell)
1-2 tablespoons paella seasoning - if you can get it or mix smoked paprika, turmeric, salt and pepper
1/2 cup frozen peas
Lemon wedges for serving

Method

1. Heat a paella pan or large shallow fry pan over a medium heat
2. Add the olive oil, red pepper, onion and garlic and fry until the onion is soft and opaque
3. Add the rice and stir to coat in the oil, fry for 1-2 minutes
4. Add spices, chicken stock and tomatoes - stir to mix in
5. Bring to an even simmer and cook stirring occasionally until the rice is almost cooked (water or extra stock may need to be added)
6. Add the fish, prawns and peas mix in and then leave to cook with no more stirring
7. Once the rice, fish and prawns are cooked arrange the steamed mussels by pushing the hinge end into the rice.  Cook until mussels are hot.
8. Sprinkle with parsley and serve

The rice should be al dente - but the base of it should be starting to brown - yummy!