Mexican
Beef Picadillo
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Beef Picadillo is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the olive oil in a skillet and soften the onion, garlic, carrots, and diced potato, about 6 minutes.
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Add the ground beef and brown it, breaking it up as it cooks.
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Stir in the tomatoes, cumin, cinnamon, bay leaf, and salt.
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Cover and simmer until the potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes, adding a splash of water if it looks dry.
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Stir in the peas and cook 3 minutes more.
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Serve the picadillo spooned over warm rice.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Beef Picadillo, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Beef Picadillo carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 610 kcal
- Protein
- 28 g
- Carbs
- 56 g
- Fat
- 30 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 780 mg
- Saturated fat
- 10 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Beef Picadillo takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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