Recipe: Tasty Cuban picadillo

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Cuban picadillo. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. 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.

Cuban picadillo 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. Recipe for Cuban beef picadillo, a traditional dish made with ground beef, potatoes, onions, garlic, cumin, bell peppers, white wine, tomato sauce, raisins, olives and capers. En Español Back in April we spent spring break in Austin, it was the first time we had gone back to Austin since moving to Seattle. You can have Cuban picadillo using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cuban picadillo

  1. You need of ingredients.
  2. You need 2 lb of ground beef.
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp of oregano.
  4. You need 1 tbsp of cumin.
  5. Prepare 8 clove of garlic minced.
  6. It's 2 of small white onions chopped finely.
  7. You need 2 of small green peppers chopped.
  8. It's 1 cup of beefstock.
  9. You need 1 1/2 cup of tomato sauce.
  10. Prepare 4 of small potatoes peeled and cubed.
  11. You need 20 of pitted green olives.
  12. Prepare 1 of salt and pepper to taste.
  13. You need 1 of olive oil to taste.
  14. You need 1/2 cup of white wine.
  15. You need 1/2 cup of raisins optional.

Cuban picadillo is one of our go to dinner sides that is great with leftover rice or to fill dough discs to make empanadillas or even quick tacos. Picadillo is very versatile, and you can add more liquid or use less liquid depending on how you want to serve your picadillo. Cuban Picadillo Recipe - Comfort Food. I love to cook and entertain and I almost always make Cuban food when we have company.

Cuban picadillo instructions

  1. Add ground beef oregano cumin salt and pepper to a mixing bowl and mix.
  2. Saute onions peppers and garlic in oil till soft.
  3. Add ground beef mixture beefstock and tomato sauce and wine cook 15 minutes.
  4. 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..

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. 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. And if you're wondering why there's a banana in the photo…well that's my Cuban roots.