Picadillo Recipe
Recipe ingredients
(for 1lb ground beef)
1 lb. 80/20 ground beef
2 -1/2 tbsp Canola oil
1 cup diced: red, green pepper and onion (for a total of 1 cup)
3 to 4 cloves garlic (mash in pilon)
1 tbsp salt *level
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1/8 tsp turmeric
½ tsp ground peppercorn (pepper)
2 heaping tsp Sofrito
½ tsp oregano
1/8 tsp cumin
1 tbsp tomato sauce (Goya-Spanish Style)
5 olives sliced and diced *rinse very well*
Directions
- Turn stove on low. Add Canola oil.
- Sauté peppers and onion, and turn flame to medium, hearing it sauté.
- Mash garlic in pilon and add to peppers and onion in pan.
- Seasoning: add salt, garlic powder, onion powder, turmeric and pepper.
- Stir all ingredients in pan. Add Sofrito, oregano, and cumin.
- Stir again.
- Add beef, and stir to mix with the other ingredients.
- Cover pan and let cook for 15 minutes.
- Add olives and tomato sauce. Stir again.
- Cover and cook for another 5 min.
- Turn off stove.
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