Turkey Picadillo Sandwiches



This is what the finished product is supposed to look like.




List of ingredients


 

I cut this recipe in half because it serves four and there are only two of us.  So we used olive oil, 1/2 onion, 4 garlic, I was out of bay leaves, 1/2 T cumin, 1/2 tsp. chili powder, 1/4 tsp. allspice, whatever turkey was in the package, around 3/4 to a pound, salt and pepper, around 3 oz. tomato paste, I don't like raisins so I left them out, about 1/4 cup sliced green olives with pimentos plus 1 T olive juice, 2 soft buns, and sliced avocado.





You see probably see Scooter watching me every time.  He is my biggest and possibly only fan.  Sometimes he likes to watch me do my own cooking show, although he generally looks perplexed the whole time.




Dice the onion.  Cook in a couple of T of olive oil for about 2 minutes, until slightly soft WITH the garlic listed next.





1/2 of the recipe would be four cloves of garlic but mine were pretty large so I used two.  Chop them up and add them to the onions to saute.



This is like Where's Waldo?  You should be able to find the Miller Lite with every recipe.  This is for the "Chef."

 

I used 1/2 T cumin, 1/2 tsp. chili powder, 1/4 tsp. allspice.  I was out of Bay Leaves but if you have them put one or two in.  Add this to the onions and garlic. Toast one or two minutes. It will look like the picture below.






Add the turkey, salt and pepper to taste, and cook about five minutes, breaking up the meat.



Add the tomato paste and stir until brick red, 3 to 4 minutes.  Add 1 cup water, the 1/6 cup raisins in you like them, the olives and olive juice.  Bring to a simmer, cover and cook over medium heat unti thickened, about 15 minutes.  Uncover and cook, sitring, 3 more minutes.  Season with salt and pepper  (there is too much seasoning with salt and pepper to suit me so I leave the salt out a lot of the time.



 

This is what it looked like so far.  It never got really red I don't think.  Maybe the water diluted it too much.  I think add more tomato paste or less water. 

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Drizzle the cut sides of the rolls with olive oil, place on a baking sheet and warm in the over on 350 for about five minutes. Fill the rolls with the turkey mixture, top with avocado. 



We liked it!