Recipe of Homemade Puerto Rican Picadillo

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, puerto rican picadillo. One of my favorites food recipes. 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 current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Puerto Rican Picadillo is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Picadillo:

1. Get lbs. Ground Chuck
2. Prepare Olive Oil
3. Make ready Minced Garlic (your preference)
4. Make ready Medium / Large Onion Cubed
5. Make ready Green Bell Pepper Cubed
6. Take Sofrito (I have a recipe for this)
7. Prepare Sazon with Culantro and Achiote
8. Get toasted Almonds
9. Take halved Green Olives
10. Make ready Capers
11. Take Raisins
12. Make ready each Salt and Pepper
13. Take Ground Cinnamon
14. Prepare Ground Cloves
15. Make ready Bay Leaves
16. Take Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes
17. Take 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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