Pressure Cooker Picadillo

Serves 5 in about 19 minutes. The pressure cooker brings ground beef ground and tomatoes together.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ lbs ground beef (93% lean) or ground turkey
• 1 med sweet onion (or yellow onion)
• 2 bay leaves
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp cumin
• 2 tsp oregano (mexican is best)
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 cloves garlic, pressed or minced
• 1 jalapeño, seeded and diced
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped
• ½ cup green olives, sliced (you can also do half capers and half olives)
• 1 tbsp green olive juice (from jar)
• 2 tsp worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
• 1/8-1/4 cup raisins (golden or black)
• 1 14 oz can diced tomatoes (with juice)

Method

1. Turn on your pot's sauté setting. Tip in the ground beef and cook, stirring to break up the meat, until almost done (if using ground turkey, add 2 tsp olive oil to pot before adding turkey).
2. Tip in the onion, bay leaves, cinnamon, cumin, and oregano, and salt. Cook, while stirring now and then, until onion starts to soften.
3. Tip in garlic, jalapeño, and red bell pepper. Cook, while stirring often, for a instant.
4. Stir in green olives, olive juice, Worcestershire, and red wine vinegar. Mix together.
5. Scatter raisins over the top, then pour the diced tomatoes evenly over the meat mixture. Do not stir.
6. Cancel the Sauté function. Set the lid on the pot and lock it into position. Set the steam release knob to Sealing.
7. Press the Pressure Cook/Manual button, or dial, and then the + or - to choose 7 minutes. High pressure.
8. When the cook cycle ends, let the pot sit undisturbed for 5 minutes. Then Manually release the remaining steam/pressure until the pin in the lid drops down. Then open the lid and stir the picadillo.
9. Taste and adjust salt, if you want it.
10. Plate over hot rice, or in tacos, burritos, etc.

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