Picadillo
basic puerto rican style picadillo
Equipment
- Large saute pan
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1/2 lg onion small dice
- 1/2 lg red bell pepper small dice
- 2 tbsp sofrito home made or store bought
- 2 packets sazon
- to taste salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup olives I use whole manzanilla olives, but sliced "salad olives" works well
- 8 oz tomato sauce I use 1 can of goya
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tsp oregano
Instructions
- In a large saute pan over medium high heat brown your ground beef
- Drain the rendered fat and add onions, peppers, sofrito, sazon, oregano, salt and pepper. Cook for about 5 minutes to soften peppers and onions
- Add tomato sauce, water and olives. Stir and cover. Simmer on low for about 20 minutes.
- Re-season if necessary and it is ready to eat. Use it to top garlic mashed potatoes with sweet corn.
- Or place on a cookie sheet to cool down to use later
- I used it to fill baked empanadas
