Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, picadillo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little 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.
Picadillo is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Picadillo is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have picadillo using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Picadillo:
- Take ground beef/pork/chicken
- Prepare onion, chopped
- Make ready garlic, chopped
- Take oregano
- Take fish sauce (optional)
- Take cooking oil
- Make ready salt and black pepper
- Prepare water/beef broth or dissolved beef buillon cube
- Take tomato sauce
- Get tomato paste
- Take large potatoes (cubed)
- Make ready carrots (cubed)
- Prepare raisins
- Get green peas
- Prepare Green pitted olives (optional)
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:
- 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.
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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