Picadillo Maki: Rice and Picadillo Rolled Like Sushi
A few months ago I came up with a version of one of my wife's favourite dishes, rice with meat picadillo. The idea was to improve and modernise the presentation. Serves: 4 servings · Prep time: 30 min · Cook time: 30 min · Difficulty: Medium The dish itself is simple, but the minced meat with sherry and the fried plantain give it a very special flavour, with lots of nuances, a mix of tastes and aromas that complement each other very well. To make the meat picadillo, go to the post where I explained the original dish; you have it right here , (I don't feel like rewriting it, or copying and pasting). The innovation is based on what we could call “makifying” the dish, that is, giving it the structure of a maki, the typical sushi preparation with nori seaweed. In the photos on the right you can see the process. Here you can also see a day when I made sushi . On the nori we put the rice, then a layer of minced meat, and on top the fried plantain. I'm n...