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Abuela's Picadillo
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MarieSoler
"This is my grandmother's Cuban picadillo (ground beef hash/chili) recipe which is usually served with white rice, beans and plantains. Picadillo also goes great with mashed potatoes and can be made without the squash. This dish is a favorite at home so I usually make 2 pounds to have leftovers for making empanadas (meat pies) the next day. Picadillo also freezes well. Of course my kids say this is the best picadillo they've ever had and I have to agree!"
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Ingredients
1 h 22 m servings 378Original recipe yields 8 servings
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Cook and stir ground beef in a large stockpot until browned, 5 to 10 minutes. Drain grease.
- Heat olive oil in small skillet over medium heat. Add onion, green bell pepper, and garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir into beef in the stockpot.
- Pour tomato sauce, water, cooking wine, and hot sauce into the stockpot. Stir in sazon seasoning, parsley, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, pepper, and bay leaf. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low and simmer picadillo, uncovered, until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes.
- Split olives in half with your fingers and stir into the picadillo. Add squash. Simmer until liquid reduces but picadillo is not dry, 45 to 60 minutes. Season with salt.
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Footnotes
- Cook's Notes:
- Use another type of squash if butternut is not available.
- Substitute a pinch of saffron or a dash or yellow food coloring for the sazon packet if preferred.
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10/15/2016
10.15.16 Made half a recipe which called for half of a small butternut squash (and mine was small). I peeled and cut that half into cubes, but if I’d used all of it, the meat/sauce mixture wo...
9/3/2017
No changes. Outstanding! Will definetley make again & again & again.............
5/7/2017
I have never had Picadillo before so I was not sure what this would be. I thought the ingredient combination sounded awesome. It was okay. I did not add the extra salt since 1800+ per serving...
4/20/2017
Have made this several times and found the ingredients can be changed ( more or less of the spices) and it was still delicious.
12/30/2016
Great recipe. Taste delicious!!! Used diced tomato with tomatoe paste instead of tomato sauce., and ground turkey instead of ground beef. It's what I had available and it came out very tasteful....
8/22/2018
Delicious!! I have made it as is and loved it, and also altered it to adapt to what I had available. It’s highly adaptable so it’s nearly impossible to mess this up! I usually make 3lbs because ...
7/8/2019
Delicious! I made my own Sazon seasoning because never having heard of it before I wasn’t sure I could find it in Ontario supermarkets and I had all the ingredients. Then I used way too much bec...
3/24/2019
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say one packet of sazon, not the entire 1.4oz box of packets. 4 star for what I believe is an error - it smells amazing so far.