Picadello (Southern Dish)

Ingredients

• 2 or 3 cloves garlic chopped
• 3 onions chopped.
• 1 green pepper diced
• 3 tbs. oil
• 1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
• 2 cans tomato drained and chopped
• 1 cup beef broth
• 1 or 2 crushed chilies
• Hard cooked eggs
• Parsley
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 1/2 tsp. cumin
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/3 cup olives
• 1 or 3 large diced potatoes (can substitute rice)

Directions

1. Sauté garlic, onion and green peppers in hot oil for 2 minutes.
2. Add meat and stir fry until pinkness is gone and juices evaporate.
3. Drain in a sieve if you wish to discard fat.
4. Add all ingredients except raisins and olives.
5. Cover and simmer 20 min. stirring occasionally and adding more broth and tomato juice if you like a soupier mixture.
6. Stir in raisins and olives simmer 10 minutes.
7. Garnish with chopped hard cooked eggs and parsley.
8. If omitting potatoes could be served on hot rice or noodles...spinach noodles perhaps.

from Rolande Hastings