Puerto Rican Picadillo
Puerto Rican Picadillo

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, puerto rican picadillo. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Puerto Rican Picadillo is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Puerto Rican Picadillo is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have puerto rican picadillo using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Picadillo:
  1. Get lbs. Ground Chuck
  2. Take Olive Oil
  3. Make ready Minced Garlic (your preference)
  4. Prepare Medium / Large Onion Cubed
  5. Make ready Green Bell Pepper Cubed
  6. Prepare Sofrito (I have a recipe for this)
  7. Make ready Sazon with Culantro and Achiote
  8. Get toasted Almonds
  9. Make ready halved Green Olives
  10. Take Capers
  11. Prepare Raisins
  12. Get each Salt and Pepper
  13. Prepare Ground Cinnamon
  14. Make ready Ground Cloves
  15. Get Bay Leaves
  16. Get Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes
  17. Make ready White Vinegar
Steps to make Puerto Rican Picadillo:
  1. In 1 Tbsp Olive Oil, sweat the Onion, Bell Pepper, Garlic, Sofrito, and Sazon for 5-6 minutes. Remove and set aside in bowl.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. There's just something about my Caldero that makes this so much better. Not necessary though.

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