Cuban-Style Beef and Peppers

[Mama Mangia]

Cuban-Style Beef and Peppers

1/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup white rum or apple juice
1 pound flank steak
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 cups thinly sliced onion
1 cup yellow bell pepper strips
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and sliced
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons capers
1 teaspoon chopped fresh or 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon ground cumin
6 pimento-stuffed olives, chopped
3 plum tomatoes, each cut into 8 wedges
4 cups hot cooked long-grain rice


Combine raisins and rum in a small bowl; let stand 30 minutes.

Trim fat from steak, and cut steak into thin strips.

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, bell pepper, and jalapeno, and saute 10 minutes or until tender. Add steak and garlic, and saute 4 minutes or until beef is browned. Add raisin mixture, capers, thyme, cumin, olives, and tomatoes. Reduce heat; simmer 7 minutes or until steak is done, stirring occasionally. Serve over rice.

[cookie]

Hey-Mama, this sounds really different. I Love olives with pimentos and I always have rum around. lol I think I might try this one Thanks! Cookie

[Mama Mangia]

I hope you enjoy it! I am the apple juice person - and I use half the cumin in the recipe. Just personal choice.

[The Ironic Chef]

I'm not a big fan of Cumin Mama. I think that the season mixes that come in those kits for Tacos and such really over do it with the Cumin. The same with a lot of chili mixes.

[cookie]

If I buy a taco-pkg. and chili pkg. I only use half pkg. and use salsa mixed in with it with some water. I agree some of those pkg. over do it. If I use cumin I only use a teaspoon.

Mama. thanks again, I printed this recipe out. Cookie

[Mama Mangia]

that's why I make my own taco mixes - I can adjust or totally leave cumin out