Mexican
Beef Picadillo
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
- 1.5 lb ground beef
- 2 russet potatoes
- 15 oz diced tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 carrots
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 cups cooked rice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet and soften the onion, garlic, carrots, and diced potato, about 6 minutes.
- Add the ground beef and brown it, breaking it up as it cooks.
- Stir in the tomatoes, cumin, cinnamon, bay leaf, and salt.
- Cover and simmer until the potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes, adding a splash of water if it looks dry.
- Stir in the peas and cook 3 minutes more.
- Serve the picadillo spooned over warm rice.
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 | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Beef Picadillo takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, potato, and tomato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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