Name: Classic Cuban-Style Picadillo
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 small onion, chopped; 0.5 green bell pepper, chopped; 1 clove garlic, minced, or more to taste; 1 pound lean ground beef; 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce; 6 large pitted green olives, quartered; 0.5 cup raisins; 1 tablespoon capers; 2 (1.41 ounce) packages sazon seasoning (such as Goya®); 1 tablespoon ground cumin; 1 teaspoon white sugar; salt to taste

Classic Cuban-Style Picadillo

This classic Cuban picadillo dish with ground beef is quick and easy, and is great over rice. It can also be used as a filling for tacos or empanadas.

30 min total 10 min prep 20 min cook 4 350 cal

Instructions

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1 Gather all ingredients.
2 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.
3 Add ground beef into the skillet; cook and stir until crumbly and completely browned, 7 to 10 minutes.
4 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.