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picadillo

Cuban Picadillo

Balazs
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Cuban
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 0.9 pound ground beef 400 g
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 medium onion
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • ½ bell pepper
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin 10 g
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3 potatoes approx. 1 pound
  • ¾ cup white wine 200 ml
  • ½ cup olives 100 g
  • ½ cup raisins 90 g
  • 2 cups tomato purée
  • salt
  • pepper

Instructions
 

  • Prepare the ingredients first: finely chop the onion and the garlic, chop your bell pepper into smaller cubes, peel and dice the potato.
    Diced potatoes
  • Pour 2 tablespoons of olive oil into a pan and brown your ground beef over medium-high heat for 6-7 minutes. Take the meat off the pan and leave the oil in the pan.
    Browning ground beef in a pan
  • Put your finely chopped onions into the pan and sauté them for 5 minutes until translucent. Add garlic and continue sautéing for a minute.
    Sauté your finely chopped onions
  • Add your chopped bell pepper, cumin, cinnamon, pepper, and salt to taste.
    Add bell peppers
  • Add diced potatoes, stir the mixture occasionally and continue sautéing for 5 minutes.
    Add diced potatoes
  • Add the browned ground beef and pour the white wine into the pan. Cook for 5 minutes.
    Add ground beef
  • Add the tomato purée and the raisins. Continue cooking for 5 minutes.
    Add the tomato purée
  • Add the olives and cook over low-medium heat until most of the liquid evaporates. In case your potatoes aren’t fork tender, add water – I added 1 more cup (250 ml) – and continue cooking for 10 minutes.
    Cuban picadillo