Picadillo

Total Time: 37 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 22 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 5
• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 2 onions, chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 small sweet green peppers, chopped
• 1 (5 1/2 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/4 cup green olives, pitted and chopped
• 2 tablespoons capers, drained
• 1 -2 tablespoon worcestershire sauce (or to taste)
• 1 -2 tablespoon red wine vinegar (or to taste)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Recipe

• 1 using a large nonstick skillet, cook beef over medium heat, breaking up with spoon, until browned and drain off any fat.
• 2 add onions and cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes or until nearly tender.
• 3 add garlic and peppers, and cook, stirring often, for 2 to 3 minutes or until onions are softened.
• 4 mix tomato paste with water and stir into beef mixture along with raisins, olives, capers and worcestershire sauce (original recipe called for 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce but i found that to be too much).
• 5 simmer for 5 minutes to blend flavors then stir in vinegar (i would add the same amount of vinegar as worcestershire sauce), salt and pepper.