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