Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, puerto rican picadillo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Puerto Rican Picadillo is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Puerto Rican Picadillo is something which I have loved my whole life.
The picadillo meat is used in various Puerto Rican recipes. Traditional recipes include alcapurrias (a popular fried finger food using masa dough and picadillo as a filling), pastelillos de carne (meat turnovers using a flaky dough surrounding the picadillo meat), and many other island recipes. A classic, home-style, Latin American dish.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook puerto rican picadillo using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Picadillo:
- Take lbs. Ground Chuck
- Make ready Olive Oil
- Take Minced Garlic (your preference)
- Take Medium / Large Onion Cubed
- Take Green Bell Pepper Cubed
- Get Sofrito (I have a recipe for this)
- Take Sazon with Culantro and Achiote
- Prepare toasted Almonds
- Prepare halved Green Olives
- Prepare Capers
- Get Raisins
- Prepare each Salt and Pepper
- Take Ground Cinnamon
- Make ready Ground Cloves
- Take Bay Leaves
- Make ready Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes
- Prepare White Vinegar
If you're used to American cuisine, the best way to describe picadillo or Carne molida is to call it a hash. The ingredients vary depending on where you're dining but often contains ground beef, tomatoes, olives, and raisins. Puerto Rican picadillo uses sofrito, which is a traditional, flavorful condiment of Puerto Rico. This Puerto Rican Picadillo is a delicious blend of ground meat, peppers, onions, potatoes, olives, cilantro and spices in a savory tomato based sauce.
Steps to make Puerto Rican Picadillo:
- In 1 Tbsp Olive Oil, sweat the Onion, Bell Pepper, Garlic, Sofrito, and Sazon for 5-6 minutes. Remove and set aside in bowl.
- Add remaining Tbsp of Olive Oil and brown Ground Chuck. When browned, drain fat and add Onion, Bell Pepper, Garlic and Sofrito mixture to skillet and set aside.
- In small skillet, simmer Vinegar, Olives, Capers, Raisins, Salt and Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves and Bay leaves for up to 10 - 12 minutes stirring to distribute flavors.
- In separate skillet, toast the almonds. You want them brown, but not burned. These add a very nice texture!! When done, add them to the meat mixture.
- At this point, add the Olive and Caper mixture (in step 3) to the Ground Chuck mixture. Add Almonds and Diced Tomatoes. Bring up to heat and turn to simmer for approximately one hour. You're going to LOVE how your house is smelling.
- There's just something about my Caldero that makes this so much better. Not necessary though.
It is very similar to a Cuban, Dominican and Mexican Picadillo recipe with slightly different spices and ingredients and is used in a variety of Puerto Rican dishes. Puerto Rican Picadillo Recipe - fragrant, flavorful ground beef stew with olives and raisins. Makes an easy and no-fuss lazy weeknight meal or for parties served as stuffing for bell peppers, tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and empanadas. In Puerto Rico picadillo is used for stuffing, which needs to be moist but not runny, so not a lot of tomato sauce is used. But if you are serving it as a side dish use more tomato sauce.
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