Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, cuban picadillo. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cuban picadillo is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Cuban picadillo is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Picadillo, and practically all Cuban bean dishes are cooked into a "sofrito". A sofrito consists of a can of tomato sauce, an equal amount of water, garlic, onions, salt, and whatever herbs you prefer (typical cuban food uses a lot of oregano and I like to add cumin and a laurel leaf to my picadillo). There is a Cuban restaurant in the Miami Airport called La Carreta.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cuban picadillo using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cuban picadillo:
- Take ingredients
- Get 2 lb ground beef
- Make ready 2 tbsp oregano
- Make ready 1 tbsp cumin
- Prepare 8 clove garlic minced
- Make ready 2 small white onions chopped finely
- Take 2 small green peppers chopped
- Take 1 cup beefstock
- Take 1 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- Take 4 small potatoes peeled and cubed
- Take 20 pitted green olives
- Take 1 salt and pepper to taste
- Make ready 1 olive oil to taste
- Prepare 1/2 cup white wine
- Get 1/2 cup raisins optional
This was the closest I could get to their wonderful recipe ! 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.
Instructions to make Cuban picadillo:
- Add ground beef oregano cumin salt and pepper to a mixing bowl and mix
- Saute onions peppers and garlic in oil till soft
- Add ground beef mixture beefstock and tomato sauce and wine cook 15 minutes
- Add potatoes cook about 15 minutes or until potatoes are done add olive and raisins if used cook till liquid is gone but meat is still moist. serve with rice or let cool use as a filler for empanadas.
It's ground beef with tomato, green pepper, green olives and plenty of garlic. I love to cook and entertain and I almost always make Cuban food when we have company. People are usually surprised that even the simplest food is so flavorful. 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.
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