How to Make Super Quick Homemade Picadillo for Empanadas

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, picadillo for empanadas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Brush the edges with the egg wash and fold diagonally to form a triangle. Crimp the edges with a fork. When I decided to create an empanada recipe for Hand Made, my cookbook that was just released this fall, I knew I wanted the filling to be an Argentine-style beef picadillo, with olives for tang. Add the olives, raisins, carrots and onions and saute for just a couple minutes until softened.

Picadillo for Empanadas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Picadillo for Empanadas is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have picadillo for empanadas using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Picadillo for Empanadas:

1. Take 1 pound ground beef (80/20 or 70/30 is fine - I wouldn't go much leaner than that)
2. Take 1/2 cup finely chopped onion (the fine chop is important because you don't want large pieces tearing your pastry)
3. Take 1/2 cup finely chopped bell pepper (you can use any color, but I like the red or orange because they're sweeter and look prettier in the filling)
4. Make ready 2 Tablespoons minced garlic (3 to 4 medium cloves)
5. Make ready 1/4 cup raisins
6. Get 8 green pitted olives, cut in thirds
7. Take 3 oz. tomato paste (basically half of one of those small cans)
8. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
9. Get 1 teaspoon cumin
10. Take 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
11. Take 1 bay leaf (or 1/2 teaspoon crushed bay)
12. Make ready neutral oil

I loved the mixture of tastes all in a neat package - and it was easy to make and double the recipe. I have two more dinners sitting in the freezer!. Moravek, Kristin Eddy Picadillo is a dish from Spain. It contains highly seasoned, slightly sweetened, ground fried meat.

Instructions to make Picadillo for Empanadas:

1. In a 10 or 12 inch pot or pan, sweat the onions, peppers and garlic in 1 Tablespoon of oil over medium low heat until the onions are translucent. This should take 3 to 4 minutes. (Sweating them requires a lower heat than saute, but this results in sweeter and softer vegetables which will also yield better to the dough. Plus the garlic won't burn even if you throw it in at the same time as the onions and peppers.)
2. Push the refrito to the side of the pan and add 1 Tablespoon of oil to the center. Give the oil about 10 seconds to heat up and then add your tomato paste right on top of it (this will caramelize the tomato and give it sweetness and depth), along with the cumin, black pepper, bay leaf and salt.
3. Stir to incorporate all the ingredients in the pan, and add the ground beef, spreading it evenly over the surface area of the pan. Because you're simmering the beef at a lower heat, you'll find that you don't have to constantly break up the beef as usually needed when cooking at high heat. Other than a light sizzle right when the meat hits the pan, it shouldn't be sizzling and/or actively bubbling. If it is, turn the heat down a touch.
4. Simmer the ground beef for 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then stir in raisins and simmer another 1 or 2 minutes. (I like to add the raisins toward the end so they can retain their shape and texture. Also, if olives are your thing, this is where you'd add them.)
5. At the end, you'll see your picadillo swimming in a little puddle of fat. I drain the fat by pushing all the picadillo over to one side of the pan and resting that side on the burner so the fat can drain to the lower part of the pan. In about 10 minutes, most of the fat should be drained, and you haven't dirtied another dish in the process.

Moravek, Kristin Eddy Picadillo is a dish from Spain. It contains highly seasoned, slightly sweetened, ground fried meat. For the picadillo: Heat the oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. To make the picadillo: Heat olive oil in a large saute pan set over medium-high heat. Add onion and saute for a couple of minutes, until it becomes translucent and soft.

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