Picadillo
Back in college my two sisters and I lived in a boarding house and whoever comes home first will have to cook dinner and that unfortunately for all of us, was most of the time, me. As much as we dreaded my cooking, we didn't have a choice then, but to eat it.
Ingredients
- 10 oz Ground Pork or beef or half-beef and half-pork
- 1 pc Onion red / minced
- 2 cloves Garlic minced
- 3/4 cup Tomato Sauce
- 2 pcs Potatoes medium size / about 7oz / diced
- 1 pc Carrot medium size / diced
- 2 cups Water
- 1/2 tsp Black Pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- Fish Sauce patis / to taste
- Cooking Oil
Instructions
- In a sauce pan or pan, heat a teaspoon of cooking oil and saute the garlic and onions.
- Add ground meat, season with sea salt and pepper and cook until browned.
- Discard any excess oil, especially if the ground meat is not lean or drain the meat then put back in the pan.
- Add the tomato sauce and 1 and 1/2 to 2 cups of water.
- Season with fish sauce (patis) or sea salt, it may seem watery at this stage but don't worry, most of it will evaporate and get absorbed by the veggies.
- Cover the pan and cook ground meat for about 15 minutes.
- Add in the diced potatoes and carrots.
- Cook covered until almost tender for about 10 minutes.
- Add the corn and frozen peas.
- Cook for 5 minutes.
- Taste it and adjust to your preference. That't it!
- Serve this delicious dish with rice.
Notes
You can use this as a filling for burger buns (ala Sloppy Joe's) and empanadas. Just add less water and tomato sauce and cook the dish until most of the liquid is gone.
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