Sweet Potato with Picadillo

Picadillo is ground meat, tomatoes/tomato sauce, raisins/a general dried fruit, and olives. See also its Wikipedia article. Being a European, I just think Picadillo like “Sauce Bolognese but with dried fruits and olives.”

Ingredients

• Sweet potatoes
• ½ cup minced onion
• 2 tsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 350 g ground beef
• ¼ cup dry sherry
• ¾ cup canned crushed tomatoes
• ¼ cup dried cherries, cranberries, or raisins, roughly chopped
• ¼ cup pimento-stuffed green olives, sliced in rounds
• 1 tbsp capers
• kosher salt
• chopped fresh cilantro, some leaves for decoration

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 220 °C
2. Cut sweet potatoes in half, pierce inside with a fork, spread olive oil and salt on inside
3. Put in the microwave for 5′ (saves oven time), then into the oven
4. In a pan, cook onion until translucent
5. Add garlic, cumin, cinnamon; let flavors come together a bit
6. Add beef, cook through
7. Add tomatoes, the dried fruits, olives, capers; let simmer.
8. Add cilantro, salt to taste
9. From the baked potatoes, make a hole, add beef, put into the oven again until finished.