Picadillo. 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. Add ground beef and olives and continue stirring to break.
Picadillo is one of the great dishes of the Cuban diaspora: a soft, fragrant stew of ground beef and tomatoes, with raisins added for sweetness and olives for salt Versions of it exist across the Caribbean and into Latin America This one combines ground beef with intensely seasoned dried Spanish chorizo in a sofrito of onions, garlic and tomatoes, and scents it with red-wine vinegar, cinnamon.
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.
Taste and add salt if necessary.
You can Cook Picadillo using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Picadillo
- Lets Go Prepare of ground beef.
- Lets Go Prepare of large onion chopped.
- Lets Go Prepare of large green pepper chopped.
- Lets Go Prepare of garlic, minced.
- What You needis of sazon with saffron (I use Goya).
- It's of garlic powder.
- It's of complete seasoning.
- It's of ground cumin.
- Lets Go Prepare of raisins.
- What You needis of stuffed pimento manzanilla olives.
- It's of small can tomato sauce.
Your picadillo is ready to serve. Serve over white rice, on a tostada, or as a taco filling or even by itself. 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.
Picadillo instructions
- Brown ground beef with green pepper, onion and garlic..
- Add garlic powder, complete seasoning, cumin and simmer a few minutes.
- Add raisins and olives and simmer 2 more minutes..
- Add tomato sauce..
- Stir well, reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 20 minutes..
- Serve over white rice.
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. My friends also loved eating over on nights picadillo was on the menu. 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. Mexican picadillo fits this bill quite well and is a delicious, easy-to-make dish that does an exemplary job of jarring loose a few of your kitchen table memories.