Mexican Picadillo Recipe

Name: Mexican Picadillo Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 lbs. low-fat ground beef; 2 medium white potatoes; 2 medium carrots; 1 cup green peas; ½ cup raisins; 1 cup tomato sauce; 1 tsp. salt; ½ tsp. black pepper; ¼ tsp. ground cumin; 2 bay leaves; 2 tbsp. cooking

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Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
40 mins
Servings
8 servings
Calories
528 kcal
Course
Dinner
Cuisine
Mexican

Mexican Picadillo Recipe

Kaitlyn Vasquez

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Mexican style ground beef with carrots, potatoes, green peas, raisins, and tomato sauce. Great as a taco filling, over white rice, or on a tostada. One of our favorite ground beef recipes.

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Ingredients

Servings

2 lbs. low-fat ground beef
2 medium white potatoes
2 medium carrots
1 cup green peas preferably use frozen peas not canned
½ cup raisins
1 cup tomato sauce
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. black pepper
¼ tsp. ground cumin optional
2 bay leaves optional (remove before serving)
2 tbsp. cooking or olive oil

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Instructions

Peel the carrots and potatoes first.
Chop the potatoes and carrots.
Preheat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat.
Add the ground beef to the frying pan and lightly brown the ground beef. (about 5 minutes)
Add the potatoes and carrots, stir and cook for 6 minutes.
Add the raisins and peas and stir.
Add the tomato sauce, salt and black pepper and stir.
Reduce to medium-low heat and cook for 20 minutes until the liquid has reduced and the potatoes and carrots have softened.
Taste and add salt if necessary.

Notes

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Picadillo should be moist but not wet when served.
If it is starting to get dry before the potatoes and carrots are cooked add 2 tablespoons of water as needed so that it remains moist.
Chop the potatoes coarsely if you are going to serve it over rice or on a tostada. Chop them finer if you are going to serve it in tacos.
If you are making tacos, it goes well with both corn and flour tortillas.
If you use canned peas, rinse them well to remove excess salt.
If you don't have any tomato sauce, use 3 Roma tomatoes that have been smoothly blended as a substitute. Tomato paste works too using smaller quantities.
You can add ½ cup chopped white onion if you like. Add the onion at the same time you add the potatoes and carrots.
If you want your picadillo to be spicy, add 1 or 2 very finely chopped serrano peppers or jalapeño peppers when you add the potato and carrots.
Picadillo will keep well refrigerated for 3 day in an airtight storage container.
It will keep well in the freezer for 3 monthsin an airtight storage container.