Pork Picadillo with Rice and Cilantro

Name: Pork Picadillo with Rice and Cilantro
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Mexican, Latin American, American
Ingredients: 1 Tbs olive oil; 1 cup diced onion; 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper; 2 tsp minced garlic; 1 lb ground pork; 1 Tbs tomato paste; 1 8oz can tomato sauce; 1 tsp each kosher salt, ground cumin, dried oregano,and black pepper; 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon; 1/3 cup sliced pimento stuffed green olives; 1/4 cup currents; 1 Tbs sherry vinegar; 2 cups white rice

4 steps

Cook:30min

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:36:12 GMT

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Ingredients

4 servings

1 Tbsolive oil

1 cuponion

diced

½ cupred bell pepper

chopped

2 tspminced garlic

1 lbground pork

1 Tbstomato paste

1 x 8 ozcan tomato sauce

½ tspground cinnamon

⅓ cuppimento stuffed green olives

sliced

¼ cupcurrents

1 Tbssherry vinegar

2 cupswhite rice

Instructions

Step 1

Heat oil in a saute pan over medium; add onions and bell pepper and cook until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add garlic; cook until fragrant, 1 minute. Add ground pork; break it up with a spatula or potato masher while it cooks.

Step 2

Stir in tomato paste until combined. Add tomato sauce, salt, cumin, oregano, pepper, and cinnamon; simmer until flavors meld, about 10 minutes.

Step 3

Stir in olives, currants, and vinegar; cook until heated through, 3-5 minutes.

Step 4

Combine rice and cilantro. Serve picadillo over cilantro rice.