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Mexican Picadillo Recipe

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.

Prep 10m
Cook 30m
Total 40m
Yield 8 servings
Source: mexicanfoodjournal.com by Douglas Cullen

🥄 Ingredients

  • 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)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Peel

    Peel the carrots and potatoes first.

  2. Chop

    Chop the potatoes and carrots.

  3. Heat

    Preheat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat.

  4. Add

    Add the ground beef to the frying pan and lightly brown the ground beef. (about 5 minutes)

  5. Add

    Add the potatoes and carrots, stir and cook for 6 minutes.

  6. Add

    Add the raisins and peas and stir.

  7. Add

    Add the tomato sauce, salt and black pepper and stir.

  8. Cook

    Reduce to medium-low heat and cook for 20 minutes until the liquid has reduced and the potatoes and carrots have softened.

  9. Adjust

    Taste and add salt if necessary.

📊 Nutrition (per serving)

528 kcal Calories
61 g Carbs
38 g Protein
17 g Fat

Nutritional values are estimates from the original source.