What's for dinner~

[Apples]

mm for dinner I'm having picadillo. It's a Cuban dish, and basically white rice, black beans and seasoned meat...

Though I like to dress mine up! For the rice, I use a rice cooker! 2 cups of water to one cup of rice, but sometimes I like to use 1 cup water, 1 cup chicken broth .

For the meat, I cook onions, garlic, green onions and parsley together in a pan, then add the meat to it once the onions start to brown *-* adds that sweet, yummy goodness to it... Then I'll add this um..powder to it, it's by Goya, It's called "Sazon" xD Be sure to get the one that says "Con Azafran"!! Along with the powder I add bay leaves, a splash of cooking wine (I use a mexican/hispanic brand but it's all up to what you have/your peculiar taste), a small can of tomato sauce, and I throw in a good amount of olives. If you're feeling adventurous, you can even splash in some of the olive juice!

As the meat cooks down, I start on the black beans :o I use Goya's brand of beans, but you can use any brand you want if i'm feeling lazy, I just put onion and garlic powder in them, but sometimes i'll scoop out the onion mixture for the meat and put it in there (before I put the raw meat into the pan of course XD ) Sprinke a packet of Sazon into it, let it warm and tada!! Beans done!

now, serving wise you can do it any way you want, but usually I get a bowl, scoop rice into it, then put the meat in (be sure to throw any bay leaves you see back into the pan xD) and then the beans on top! but it's all up to how you want it


buut....that's my dinner lmao. sorry for the long post xDD!

Oh man! I wish I saw this earlier!
I will try it this week. I haven't explore cuban dishes yet!
But I am not a fan of beans for savory food. Would it be necessary to have it?
I'll be on the look out for Sazon. Maybe buying sazon will get into more cooking other flavorful Hispanic* food.
Also, jasmine rice will do well? I hope.

Thanks
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*Would it be consider Hispanic? Sorry if I was wrong and made an offensive.
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