Picadillo
Picadillo

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, picadillo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

There is a Cuban restaurant in the Miami Airport called La Carreta. They serve picadillo there, but this has SO much more flavor - I love the sweetness of the raisins against the capers & olives, along with all the spices. Ground beef, onions, green bell peppers, garlic and tomatoes, stewed together and seasoned with cloves, cinnamon and bay leaves. Can be served alone or with rice.

Picadillo is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Picadillo is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have picadillo using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Picadillo:
  1. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
  2. Make ready 2 medium sized yellow onions, peeled and chopped
  3. Prepare 2 oz chorizo, diced
  4. Take 4 clove garlic, minced
  5. Take 1 1/2 lb ground beef
  6. Prepare 4 ripe tomatoes, chopped (or 28 oz can whole tomatoes)
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
  9. Get 2 tsp ground cumin
  10. Make ready kosher salt
  11. Get black pepper
  12. Get 2 bay leaf
  13. Make ready 2/3 cup raisins
  14. Make ready 2/3 cup pitted stuffed olives
  15. Take pinch ground cloves
  16. Prepare pinch nutmeg
  17. Prepare 1 cup white rice

Serve over white rice, on a tostada, or as a taco filling or even by itself. Picadillo (pee-cah-DEE-yo) combines ground or finely chopped beef with vegetables (and sometimes fruit) for a versatile stew enjoyed throughout Latin America. Depending on the region and people´s personal customs, picadillo serves as a main dish, often accompanied by rice and beans, or as a filling for empanadas, chiles rellenos, tamales, tacos, stuffed potatoes, and more. Picadillo is a Cuban-style hash made with ground pork, ground beef, or both.

Steps to make Picadillo:
  1. Put the olive oil in a large, heavy pan set over a medium heat flame and heat until shimmers.
  2. Add onions, chorizo, and garlic and cook until onions are soft (10 min).
  3. Add the ground beef and cook. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Add tomatoes, vinegar, cinnamon, cumin, bay leaves, cloves and nutmeg. Lower heat and let simmer, covered, for about 30 minutes.
  5. While stew is cooking, cook rice per directions.
  6. Uncover the pan, and add the raisins and olives. Allow to stew for another 15 minutes.
  7. Serve over white rice.

Depending on the region and people´s personal customs, picadillo serves as a main dish, often accompanied by rice and beans, or as a filling for empanadas, chiles rellenos, tamales, tacos, stuffed potatoes, and more. Picadillo is a Cuban-style hash made with ground pork, ground beef, or both. It's a simple, homestyle dish that relies on building layers of flavor and texture from the addition of briny green olives, capers, and raisins. Traditionally, picadillo is served with white rice, but if that's one too many starch for your tastes, feel free to omit the. This is a dish I grew up eating as a kid, and I always loved when my Mom was making it.

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