Classic Cuban-Style Picadillo
This is a classic Cuban picadillo recipe for ground beef that is typically eaten over white rice. It can also be used as a filling for tacos or empanadas. It's delicious with fried ripe plantains.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion chopped
- ½ green bell pepper chopped
- 1 clove garlic minced, or more to taste
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 8 ounce can tomato sauce
- 6 large pitted green olives quartered
- ½ cup raisins
- 1 tablespoon capers Optional
- 1.41 ounce packages sazon seasoning such as Goya®
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
- Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion, bell pepper, and garlic, onion in the hot oil until softened, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Add ground beef into the skillet; cook and stir until crumbly and completely browned, 7 to 10 minutes.
- Stir tomato sauce, olives, raisins, capers, cumin, sazon seasoning, sugar, and salt into the ground beef mixture. Cover the skillet, reduce heat to low, and cook until the mixture is heated through, 5 to 10 minutes.