Name: Homemade Picadillo Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 7 min
Total time: 1 h 22 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Latin American
Ingredients: 2 lbs lean ground beef; ¼ cup olive oil; ½ onion; ½ green bell pepper; 2 tbsp garlic; 8 oz tomato sauce; 2 cups water; ½ cup red cooking wine; 3 tbsp hot sauce; 1.41 oz sazon seasoning; 1 tbsp Fresh Parsley; ½ tsp garlic powder; ½ tsp onion powder; ½ tsp ground cumin; ½ tsp ground black pepper; ¼ tsp ground bay leaf; 3 oz spanish style olives; 1 tsp salt; 1 small butternut squash

How To Make Homemade Picadillo

This easy-to-make picadillo recipe yields a savory and rich dish, made of ground beef, bell pepper, and onions in a smooth and well-spiced tomato sauce.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 1 hour 7 minutes

Total: 1 hour 22 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

2lbslean ground beef
¼cupolive oil
½onion,chopped
½green bell pepper,chopped
2tbspgarlic,minced
8oztomato sauce,(2 cans)
2cupswater
½cupred cooking wine
3tbsphot sauce,such as Louisiana®
1.41ozsazon seasoning,(1 package), such as Badia® Tropical®
1tbspfresh parsley,chopped
½tspgarlic powder
½tsponion powder
½tspground cumin
½tspground black pepper
¼tspground bay leaf
3ozSpanish style olives
1tspsalt,or to taste
1small butternut squash,peeled, cut into cubes

Instructions

Cook and stir the ground beef in a large stockpot for 5 to 10 minutes until browned. Drain the grease.
Heat the olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, green bell pepper, and garlic, then cook and stir for 2 to 3 minutes until fragrant.
Stir into the beef in the stockpot. Pour the tomato sauce, water, cooking wine, and hot sauce into the stockpot.
Stir in the sazon seasoning, parsley, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, pepper, and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer picadillo, uncovered for about 10 minutes until slightly thickened.
Split the olives in half with the fingers and stir into the picadillo. Add the squash.
Simmer for 45 to 60 minutes until the liquid reduces, but picadillo is not dry. Season with salt.
Serve and enjoy!

Recipe Notes

Use another type of squash if butternut is not available.
Substitute a pinch of saffron or a dash of yellow food coloring for the sazon packet, if preferred.