Cuban Picadillo
Cuban Picadillo

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cuban picadillo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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.

Cuban Picadillo is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Cuban Picadillo is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cuban picadillo using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cuban Picadillo:
  1. Prepare 1 potato (russet)
  2. Take 1 onion
  3. Make ready 1 bell pepper
  4. Get 6 clove garlic
  5. Take 1 lb ground beef
  6. Take 1 can canned tomatos
  7. Get 3/4 cup white wine
  8. Make ready 1/2 can green olives
  9. Take 1/2 cup rasins
  10. Take 1 tsp cumin
  11. Make ready 1 tsp oregano
  12. Prepare 1 salt and pepper to taste

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.

Steps to make Cuban Picadillo:
  1. Peel and cut potato into half inch cubes and sautee on skillet until brown and crispy. Set aside.
  2. Dice onion and sautee on skillet until clear.
  3. Dice bell pepper and add to onion mixture.
  4. Add crushed garlic and cook until all three are cooked. Set aside.
  5. Put ground beef with on skillet and cook well. Add spices and keep stirring. Once cooked, drain oil and add veggie mix.
  6. Add white wine and let liquid reduce.
  7. Add canned tomatoes with juice and let reduce again.
  8. Add rasins and quartered olives. Let raisins absorb some of the moisture.
  9. Add potatoes and serve.

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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