Picadillo a la Habanera
From sandra47 15 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 46
Picadillo is Cuban-style hash and a favorite meal of most Cubans. It's ground beef with tomato sauce, red or green peppers, green olives, capers, petit pois, raisins and of course, plenty of garlic. We like to eat it over white rice. Read more It also goes great with fried plantains and black beans and rice. Or with fried eggs and rice. Can be used as a filling for the "empanadas" (fried dough pastry), Cuban style pastry. Or for our Papas Rellenas (stuffed fried potatoes). Sofrito is the sautéed onion, peppers, garlic and tomato with the spices, we use this with more or less the same ingredients for almost all our food) See less
Ingredients
- olive oil for frying, about ¼ cup or less shopping list
- 1 large onion, diced shopping list
- 1 large green bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped shopping list
- 4 garlic cloves, minced shopping list
- 2 pounds lean or extra lean ground beef or ground round shopping list
- 3/4 cups tomato sauce or ½ cup tomato paste shopping list
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. oregano shopping list
- 1/2 cup stuffed green olives chopped shopping list
- 1/4 cup capers shopping list
- 1/3 cup raisins shopping list
- 2 tablespoon dry wine (any kind as long as it is dry) shopping list
- 1 teaspoon salt or to your taste shopping list
How to make it
- (You can use a food processor for the onion, garlic and bell pepper, saves a lot of work)
- Sauté onion, green pepper, and garlic in a large pan.
- Fry about 5 minutes, until the onions are softened.
- Add the tomatoes, cumin, oregano, then add the ground beef.
- Mix all the ingredients of the “sofrito” with the meat and cover. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 15 minutes.
- Add olives, capers, raisins and petit pois and simmer 5 minutes longer.
- For the empanadas or papas rellenas (recipes will follow) let it dry more. The drier the better so that it will not drip through the dough or mashed potatoes..
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