Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, picadillo. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. 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 favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Picadillo is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook picadillo using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Picadillo:
- Get 1 kg ground beef/pork/chicken
- Take 1 onion, chopped
- Make ready 1/2 clove garlic, chopped
- Prepare 1/4 tsp oregano
- Prepare 1 tbsp fish sauce (optional)
- Make ready cooking oil
- Make ready salt and black pepper
- Make ready 1/2 cup water/beef broth or dissolved beef buillon cube
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups tomato sauce
- Prepare 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- Take 4 large potatoes (cubed)
- Take 2 carrots (cubed)
- Make ready 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1 can green peas
- Take Green pitted olives (optional)
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.
Instructions to make Picadillo:
- Saute garlic and onion in oil. Set aside. Cook ground beef/pork/chicken in oil until brown.
- If you want potatoes to be a bit crunchy you may cook them in oil too before mixing it with cooked ground meat, carrots and green peas.
- Add water/beef broth and bring to boil. Add raisins and olives. Pour tomato sauce and tomato paste and simmer for about 15-20 minutes or until sauce reduces.
- Season with oregano, salt, fish sauce and black pepper. Best served with white rice or corn bread and fried plantain bananas.
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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