This is just a guess, but risottos are often quite runny and "wet".

Could it be a risotto maybe?. My suggestion to make it more "elegant"

Soupy chicken and rabbit rice. Not quite as bad as "soggy"!

Perhaps another option for the heading at least.

".....rice—creamy like a risotto, studded with clams and lightly infused with ginger—came concealed under some paper-thin petals of octopus carpaccio. A paella this wasn’t. "Tourists come to Valencia expecting only paella," my friend, local food critic Pedro García Mocholí, had told me. "But what our local taste buds really crave most are caldoso [soupy] and meloso [moist] rices."

"If its served in a soup bowl, its called arroz caldoso which is the traditional way of using seafood in the rice dish (this is not paella, but it is very similar). there are restaurants in spain that specialize in one or the other, but never both. Usually the soupy rice dish is used for a Lobster rice."

See the term "caldereta" (fabulous in Palma de Mallorca). I personally make "arroces caldosos" and they really are stewed chicken, rabbit, fish, lobster.... with rice. DELICIOUS!!!

You are dealing with a menu of typical Valencian rice dishes, popularly known as paellas. People outside the region and internationally only know one kind of paella, the kind Valencians call 'paella mixta' because it contains both meat and seafood, but locally there is a great variety. The are divided into the two general class of (a) arroces secos, so called because they are served without broth, and (b) arroces caldosos, where 'caldoso' comes from 'caldo' in the sense of broth, and so called because the rice is drenched in broth from the other ingredients. Often the same dish can be ordered as a 'seco' or as a 'caldoso'.
You can find recipes for them on the web, but better still come and taste them!

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N.B. Broth - it's not soup.

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"The are divided into the two general class" should read "They are divided into the two general classes."

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I suggest combining Sandra's translation with mine as follows:

Moist Rice Dishes (typical Valencian rice dishes with a broth)

On the other hand, Dekken's "rice with chicken and rabbit in a savoury broth" does indeed sound more appetising.

Just for interest, the rice with chicken and rabbit (and snails) is the only variant that Valencians call 'paella valenciana'.

http://btheremag.com/2006/12/01/in-search-of-paella/

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bthere: Inflight Magazine Brussels Airlines » In search of paella
The menu boasts both paellas (a dry rice dish) and melosos or caldosos (wet rice dishes), which range from a paella de sepia y alcachofas (rice with ...
btheremag.com/2006/12/01/in-search-of-paella/

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Korea Garden - Westmont, IL
I checked over the lunch menu, it consisted of noodles, dry and wet, rice dishes, kimchi soup type dishes and some other stuff I haven't tried yet. ...
Map of 204 N Cass Ave, Westmont, IL 60559, USA
www.yelp.com/biz/korea-garden-westmont - 34k

paella: wetness/dryness - Home Cooking - Chowhound
A wet rice dish may not be the ideal paella, but it is not necessarily a failure. The Spanish do cook 'wet' rices, they just don't call them paella. ...
www.chowhound.com/topics/451576 - 75k

Wet and dry rice dishes are what I know them as (and from cookery books, etc.)

Risotto is an Italian dish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risotto - like a pain au raisins isn't a teacake...

Rice recipes in Mediterranean style are countless and amazingly ...
For dry rice dishes the proportion is two to one. For example 2 cups water to one-cup rice. For sticky rice recipes we use a three to one proportion. ...
www.mediterranean-food-recipes.com/rice-recipes.html - 35

Recipes - Paella and Beyond, Information about the food and drink ...
Any rice dish, whether dry or juicy, needs to rest off the fire at least five minutes to finish cooking and absorb liquid. Paella is never finished in the ...
www.andalucia.com/taste/paella/home.htm - 14k

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Madras Cafe, Sunnyvale - San Francisco Bay Area - Chowhound
Sambar rice - wet rice dish and very good (but you have to like the wet rice texture) - came with a ton of rice and a side of squash and chutney. ...
www.chowhound.com/topics/303322 - 64k

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Charles Campion | Blogs | Evening Standard
Safely home among my books checking my facts I find that kedgeree was indeed once a dry rice dish - in "Culinary Jottings from Madras", the redoubtable ...
campion.thisislondon.co.uk/2007/03/musings_on_kedg.html

Spanish Recipes for Main Dishes from LaTienda.com
A dry rice dish made with white beans or chickpeas, a whole head of garlic, and a regional selection of vegetables. 53. Pheasant Alcántara Style ...
www.tienda.com/recipes/mains.html - 39k

However, maybe "rice stews", if you don't like wet/dry -

A Question of Taste - Exclusive Food and Wine Tours in Spain
It is famous throughout Spain for the gaping river gorge with a sheer drop of ... we'll indulge in the house speciality which is rice stew with partridge, ...
www.aqot.com/excursions_food_and_wine_in_spain.htm - 16k

Spanish food - Valencia
... arroz a banda (made with fish and shellfish) and arroz caldosa (rice stew). ... Spain is largest producer of almonds after the United States. ...
www.iberianfoods.co.uk/valencia.htm - 25k



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Cycling, Walking, Bird watching and Mountain activities in the ...
... across spain and along with the local Trout enjoys a well deserved reputation. ... pimenton de patatas (paprika seasoned potatoes) noodles or rice stew, ...
www.sierracastril.com/gastronomy.htm

A Guide to Hondón de las Nieves (Costa Blanca)
Food: Hondon features some of Spain's heartier foods such as arroz caldoso (rice stew), trigo picado (cracked wheat stew) and grilled meat. ...
www.masahondon.co.uk/guide-to-hondon

Information on Torrevieja
<TITLE>Self catering Holidays Spain, France, USA</TITLE> ... the "caldero" - a fish and rice stew popular with the "Torreviejenses" (the native Spaniards). ...
www.torre.co.uk/torrevieja_information.html -