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  • Once you have mastered the general idea for this wonderful and versatile recipe, you will find it repays buying a genuine caldero or paella pan, though this is by no means essential: a thin-based pan as wide and shallow as possible will work as this allows the rice to cook relatively fast and evenly.

    Recipe of the week - Paella 2007

  • Once you have mastered the general idea for this wonderful and versatile recipe, you will find it repays buying a genuine caldero or paella pan, though this is by no means essential: a thin-based pan as wide and shallow as possible will work as this allows the rice to cook relatively fast and evenly.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Just as paella refers to the pan in which the rice is cooked, caldoso means that the rice has been cooked in a caldero - literally a cauldron; for 21st-century purposes, that means a saucepan or cast-iron casserole.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • So while we stand over my caldero (pot) and stir, I'll be collecting little tidbits of info to pass on to you, dear reader.

    unknown title 2009

  • So while we stand over my caldero (pot) and stir, I'll be collecting little tidbits of info to pass on to you, dear reader.

    unknown title 2009

  • About 20 minutes before rice is finished soaking, combine 4 ¼ cups coconut milk, the salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg in a medium-size caldero or Dutch oven.

    JSOnline.com 2009

  • So while we stand over my caldero (pot) and stir, I'll be collecting little tidbits of info to pass on to you, dear reader.

    unknown title 2009

  • So while we stand over my caldero (pot) and stir, I'll be collecting little tidbits of info to pass on to you, dear reader.

    unknown title 2009

  • The 'seven fires' are the parilla (a grill grate set over hot coals); the chapa (flat cast iron griddle set over fire) 'an infernillo (a two-story fire with a cooking surface in between); a horno de barro (wood-fired oven); a rescoldo (covering food with embers); asado (a vertical spit for cooking whole animals); and caldero (iron kettle).

    A Veggie Venture 2009

  • We do not wish to throw good money after bad (echar la soga tras el caldero). [

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

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