Picadillo de Pescado

Fish in a Spicy Tomato Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1992

  • About

Picadillo is a classic Latin American dish of ground meat, tomatoes, garlic, onions, spices, olives, raisins, and capers. This hash–like mixture is often stuffed into roast chicken, tortillas, chayote squash, and other such convenient containers. In Cuba it’s served over rice and black beans. Without the meat, the mixture is still very exciting and makes a wonderful sauce for swordfish, cod, flounder, and tuna. You can grill the fish, then spoon the picadillo on top, or you can bake the fis