Photo Gallery: Chef Leo Razo teaches students how to cook paella

Chef Leo Razo begins cooking pork, the first main ingredient to create paella, for about 20 students and community members in Huntington Beach. (Priscella Vega)

By Priscella Vega

and Kevin Chang

July 18, 2019 7:02 PM PT

Chef Leo Razo taught about 20 students how to cook paella, a traditional Spanish dish, Wednesday in Huntington Beach.

Chef Leo Razo displays salt, garlic, saffron and other ingredients he used to make paella Wednesday in Huntington Beach. (Priscella Vega)

Chef Leo Razo’s finished paella includes pork, chicken, shrimp, mussles, clams and vegetables. Razo cooked the dish with help from about 20 students who are part of the Waymakers Gang Prevention and Youth Development Program. (Priscella Vega)

Chef Leo Razo cooks paella, a traditional Spanish dish, with participants of the Waymakers Gang Prevention and Youth Development Program and Huntington Beach Youth Shelter on Wednesday. (Kevin Chang / Staff Photographer)

Chef Leo Razo holds up a gram of saffron as he speaks with participants of the Waymakers Gang Prevention and Youth Development Program and Huntington Beach Youth Shelter on Wednesday. (Kevin Chang / Staff Photographer)

Priscella Vega

Priscella Vega is the Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley reporter for the Daily Pilot. Before joining the Pilot in February 2017, she worked for the Daily Breeze covering the Palos Verdes Peninsula and for the Long Beach Press-Telegram as a general assignment intern. She earned her journalism degree from Cal State Long Beach. (714) 966-4617.