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Main Dishes

Picadillo Dulce para Relleno

Sweet Picadillo to use as a filling

This dish is used to fill chiles like poblano, jalapeno or pasilla, and can be used as well to fill Enchiladas or Empanadas.

Ingredients:

Platano Macho peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon finely chopped Acitron
1 tablespoon of raisins
50 grams. almonds blanched and chopped
oil, Salt and pepper
1/2 kg. ground pork meat
a piece of onion and 1 garlic to cook the meat
1/2 onion finely chopped
1/2 liter tomato puree
1/2 apple peeled and chopped
1 peach peeled and chopped

Optional: powder cinnamon.

In a pot with water, put the meat with a piece of onion, 1 garlic and little salt, cook it for 20 minutes. When ready, place the meat in a sift to drain, and remove the onion and garlic.

In a pan saute the onion, and add the tomato puree, fry well. Add the meat, the fruit, the acitron, raisins and almonds, salt and pepper, stir to have everything well mixed. Cook with medium heat for 10 min.

Notes:
Some people like the taste of the cinnamon with fruit and tomato, so add a little together with the salt and pepper.