Picadillo
Picadillo

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, picadillo. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Picadillo is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Picadillo is something which I have loved my whole life.

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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook picadillo using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

You can add ½ cup chopped white onion if you like. Add the onion at the same time you add the potatoes and carrots. This is a dish I grew up eating as a kid, and I always loved when my Mom was making it. My friends also loved eating over on nights picadillo was on the menu.

Instructions 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.

I also have a Slow Cooker Picadillo, an Instant Pot Picadillo version, some great ways to use leftovers are Picadillo Empanadas made in the air fryer or Picadillo. 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. Peccadillo definition is - a slight offense. How to use peccadillo in a sentence.

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