For food preparation generally, see Food preparation. Modern fruit salad and a "Russian cigarette" pastry stuffed with cottage cheese. Cooking is the process of ...
Slow Cooker Picadillo Pot Roast - The Forked Spoon
Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps
-
4.78 from 22 votes
This hearty and delicious Slow Cooker Picadillo Pot Roast is filled with shredded chuck roast in a flavorful beef broth flavored with olives, tomatoes, vegetables, and seasonings. Serve this Latin American-inspired dish with a side of rice and black beans for a meal the whole family will love!
Crockpot Picadillo
This easy picadillo pot roast is a delicious alternative to classic slow cooker pot roast. Of course, traditional picadillo is usually made in a skillet on the stovetop with ground beef or pork, but my love for slow-cooked shredded meat was too hard to resist.
This untraditional but still super delicious picadillo recipe is perfect for busy schedules and cold winter nights. It's easy enough to prepare the night before or the morning of, then set and forget to cook in the crockpot until dinnertime.
What is Picadillo?
Picadillo is a dish with unknown origins, although some believe it to have originated in Spain. From there, it was introduced to Latin America, becoming popular in countries such as Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines.
The exact ingredients and preparation method can vary depending on the region and personal preferences, but common ingredients in picadillo include ground or shredded meat (such as beef or pork), onions, garlic, tomatoes, peppers, cumin, and sometimes raisins or olives. It can be served independently or as a filling for empanadas, tacos, or other dishes.
Ingredients
Chuck roast
Salt and Black pepper
Manzanilla olives (pimento)
Tomato sauce and whole tomatoes
Carrots, onion, bell peppers
Garlic
Sofrito (see the section about sofrito below)
Mexican oregano
Adobo seasoning
Ground cumin
Beef broth
How to Cook Slow Cooker Picadillo
1. Begin by seasoning both sides of the roast generously with salt and pepper. Then, set it aside.
2. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat, and add the prepared chuck roast. Brown each side for around 5 minutes per side. Once browned, remove the roast from the skillet and set it aside.
3. Next, transfer the olives, tomato sauce, tomatoes, carrots, onion, green and red bell peppers, garlic, sofrito, oregano, adobo seasoning, cumin, and beef broth to a large slow cooker. Mix well to combine.
4. Place the browned chuck roast on top of the vegetables and cover it with the lid. Cook on low for 8 hours or until the meat is tender and easily shreds with a fork.
5. Finally, serve the shredded beef picadillo with steamed white rice and garnish with freshly chopped cilantro if desired.
Common ingredients include onions, garlic, tomatoes, peppers (such as bell peppers, jalapeños, or cubanelle peppers), cilantro, and sometimes other herbs or spices (such as cumin or oregano).
Storage and Reheating
Keep leftovers stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days or in the freezer for up to 2-3 months. Thaw frozen leftovers in the refrigerator overnight before reheating them on the stovetop or in the microwave.
How to Serve Picadillo Pot Roast
There are countless ways to serve this incredible picadillo stew. My family's favorite way to dish it up is in a big bowl with a scoop of warm cooked rice and black beans. Sometimes I'll serve it with warm tortillas, as part of a salad bowl, or will drippy fried eggs.
More Beef Stew Recipes
If you try making this Slow Cooker Picadillo Pot Roast Recipe, please leave me a comment and let me know! I always love to hear your thoughts.
bok choy :: Article Creator 'She Says It Like She's Trying Not To Laugh.' Everett (@everett.Toy) is cracking TikTok up after showcasing some of the curious pronunciation and diction mannerisms of a robotic self-checkout machine's voice at Stop & Shop, a retailer that's no stranger to implementing robotic help in its stores. One of his more recent posts shows him buying yams. Viewers are tickled pink with the "aggressive" manner in which the grocery store's self-service system calls out the produce. "Okay the self checkout voice saying 'YAM' is kinda aggressive," Everett writes in a text overlay of the TikTok, which shows him processing the sale of a yam on the self-checkout machine. He leaves it on the automatic register's scale until a robotic voice shouts, "Move your…YAMS" The TikToker, chuckling, grabs the vegetable and places it into a bag ...
new york times cooking :: Article Creator BBQ Pepper Shrimp, Warm Baguette, Green Salad: Happy Friday Good morning. The ospreys are returning to their winter-ravaged nests near my home waters this week, after long passage from South America, a sure sign of spring. The striped bass will show up behind them, looking for food in the shallows up in the back bays and estuaries. I'll rig a fly rod and go look for them, under the birds' watchful glare. It's early yet, though. The water's in the low 40s and the trees on the shore are bare. The fishing's imaginary right now, at least for me. I'll still think about it all weekend in the kitchen, though, as I cook. On the menu for Saturday night: this lovely BBQ pepper shrimp (above) that Korsha Wilson adapted from a recipe of Tim McNulty's, used at his family's Lobster Pot restaurant in Provincetown, out at the very end of Cape Cod. It's a variation on the New Orleans classic...
jerusalem artichoke :: Article Creator Learn About Jerusalem Artichoke Health Benefits And Exactly How To Use Them Photo credit: Hearst Owned "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." You may be surprised to learn that Jerusalem artichokes aren't artichokes at all, and they don't even come from Jerusalem. Confusing, right? Some say the flavor of a Jerusalem artichoke is notably sweet, earthy, nutty, and slightly reminiscent of an artichoke flavor, and the texture, when cooked down, is artichoke-like as well. This is likely how they got their name, explains Debra Moser, co-founder of Central Farm Markets in Washington D.C. The Jerusalem artichoke, sometimes referred to as a sunchoke, is a vegetable similar to a potato and is considered a tuber, explains Lee Jones, a farmer behind The Chef's Garden. Native to North America, it's the root of a certain species o...
clam chowder :: Article Creator 18 Tried-and-True Chowder Recipes, From Clam To Corn To Chicken Maybe it's just me, but there's something about a chowder that feels unintuitive. A hot…chunky…milk soup? Yet it is a dish I return to again and again: a perfectly creamy salmon stew overlooking the Baltic Sea on a long summer evening in Helsinki; my millionth bowl of never-not-scrumptious seafood chowder with requisite hunk of brown bread on my drives up and down the west coast of Ireland; the corn chowder made with peak season farmers market sweet corn in my own kitchen. There are few dishes as nourishing, as satisfying, as full-belly delicious. Here are just a few of our favorite chowder recipes, from Peru to New England and Manhattan to Ecuador. 01 of 18 Corn, Crab, and Shrimp Chowder Cara Cormack Cream, butter, crabmeat, and shrimp — what's not to like? But the game-changing ingredient of this rich chowder from Andrew Zimmer...
braised short ribs :: Article Creator Slow-braised Beef Short Ribs: A Lazy Sunday Feast With Beetroot And Blackberry Lazy Sundays call for low-effort, high-reward cooking – and these slow-braised short ribs are exactly that (Gareth Morgans) Looking for a lovely dish for a lazy Sunday? You can't go wrong with braised beef short ribs with beetroot and blackberry, from MasterChef runner-up Omar Foster. "Low and slow braising with vibrant, earthy beets and sweet blackberries transforms flavoursome short ribs into meltingly soft meat – while you sit back and relax," he says. "You can serve the ribs whole or shred the meat to make it go further. Or buy two packs and freeze the leftovers." Serves: 4 Prep time: 20 minsCook time: 4 hrs 30 mins Ingredients: 20g plain flour 1 (900g) pack frozen British beef short ribs, defrosted (approx 3 ribs in a pack) 2 tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, roughly chopped 3 garlic clov...
guac recipe :: Article Creator I Made Rachael Ray's 7-layer Dip. It Called For 19 Ingredients But Was Surprisingly Easy To Make. First, I gathered all of my ingredients. Rachael Ray's recipe called for a lot of produce and canned items. Lara Walsh Ray's recipe called for 19 ingredients, including tomatoes, cilantro, avocados, hot sauce, olives, two kinds of salsa, beans, and citrus. Her recipe also required sour cream, which I substituted with Greek yogurt. Looking at the long list of ingredients at the grocery store, I was skeptical that Ray's recipe would be as easy as some of her others. This recipe required a lot of chopping, as well as homemade guacamole. I also noticed Ray's recipe didn't include any cheese or meat, which made me wonder how flavorful it would be. Chopping the vegetables was the most time-consuming step. I prepared the vegetables first. Lara Walsh I started by prepping...
baked chicken legs :: Article Creator Sticky Honey-Soy Chicken Legs These glossy weeknight-friendly chicken legs strike the perfect balance between tangy, sweet, and delightfully savory. Glazing the chicken in a combination of honey and mustard bolstered with soy sauce and apple cider vinegar blankets them in a mirror-like sheen that caramelizes in the oven. Cutting the chicken into large irregular pieces straight through the bone creates more surface area for that sticky-sweet glaze to stick to. Using a sharp cleaver makes this process easy: Cut straight down the chicken in one swift motion, pressing the cleaver down with the palm of your hand if it gets stuck. If you don't have a cleaver, a sharp and heavy chef's knife will do the trick. Chicken Leg Recipes The legs, or brown meat, of a chicken have more flavour than the breast and take longer to cook. They are sold as whole legs, drumsticks (the lower half of the leg) or thighs. The...
brown sauce :: Article Creator Blueberry-Gin Pork Tenderloin This simple pork tenderloin gets a beautiful brown sugar–cardamom crust as it roasts and a sweet and tangy finish from the savory blueberry sauce. Serve it for weeknight dinner, and keep it in mind to wow guests on special occasions. What is the advantage of roasting a pork tenderloin? Pork tenderloin is a great option for weeknight cooking: The slim cut is in and out of the oven in less than 30 minutes, and it's naturally very tender. Pork tenderloin has a mild flavor, which makes it ideal for serving with a range of flavorful sauces. Will frozen blueberries work in this recipe? For recipes like this blueberry sauce, you can swap out fresh blueberries for frozen — which is a great option when it isn't the height of summer blueberry season. Use them straight from frozen, and they will perform well. If you can, use IQF (individually quick frozen) blueberries: They w...
grilled salmon recipe :: Article Creator Grilled Whole Fish Dave Pasternack's technique for cooking a whole fish on the grill is straightforward and leans only on ingredients needed to give the fish itself the spotlight. You'll enjoy the smoky chargrilled flavor that permeates the skin and the lemon, garlic, and parsley tucked inside the fish cavity that infuse the meat with gentle flavor. Follow Pasternacks' recipe, and you'll avoid any sticking and end up with a picture-perfect fish to bring to the table. One whole fish will feed two people, but it's easy enough to put an additional fish on the grill if you want to serve a few extra people. What's the best way to keep a whole fish fresh before cooking? You want to keep the fish very cold (but not frozen) — and you don't want the flesh wet. To do that, place fish in a container that can be set over ice and stored in the refrigerator. (Alternatively, you can place...
homemade pasta recipe :: Article Creator 20 Of Grandpa's Favorite Winter Pasta Recipes Pasta night is always a good idea – especially when Grandpa is planning dinner. During winter in the South, we often talk about warm and satisfying soups and stews, but pasta can be just as nourishing and comforting. We opened Grandpa's recipe box to pull out these top picks that include everything from the classic Baked Ziti to a go-to Instant Pot recipe to the spaghetti that tastes like a million dollars. Fred Hardy, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Christina Daley In just about an hour, you can have one of the easiest, cheesiest pasta dishes that everyone in the family will love. This is the type of recipe to turn to for busy weeknights or when company's coming. Antonis Achilleos; Prop Stylist: Lydia Purcell; Food Stylist: Ruth Blackburn Ready for a twirl? Always– especially when it's a dish that's as...
