The ideal meal from Puerto Rico. This is one of the primary foods served everywhere you go. When paired with steaming rice, it works really nicely.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 to 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (8 ounce) can canned tomato sauce
- ¼ cup sofrito sauce
- 1 (.18 ounce) packet sazon seasoning
- 1 tablespoon adobo seasoning
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- salt to taste
- 2 pounds beef stew meat
- 2 cups peeled, cubed potatoes
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- In a large pot, combine tomato sauce, sofrito sauce, sazon seasoning, adobo seasoning, oregano, and salt. Simmer over medium low heat for 5 minutes. Add meat, and cook until evenly browned. Stir in just enough water to cover meat. Cover, and simmer for about 1 hour. Add potatoes, and cook for about 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 677 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 155 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 45 g |
| Saturated Fat | 19 g |
| Sodium | 971 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 47 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I’ve made this dish many times and even my Puerto Rican mother in law loved it! Sometimes I’ll add different veggies if I have it on hand. I usually add fresh garlic since everything is better with garlic. I use the instant pot and sauté the meat first then add the rest of the ingredients and set it for about 30-45 minutes. Thanks for the great recipe!
Great recipe. Enjoyed the flavors and the meat was tender. I will make it again. Thank you.
I added an onion, bell pepper and carrots and olives to it. What a great dish!!!
This was excellent! I read several of the reviews before starting out to avoid any missteps. Followed the ingredients but switched up the cooking order a bit. Seasoned and floured the beef and browned it. Took the beef out and sweated 1/2 onion and two cloves garlic. Then I added the rest for the sauce. I put the meat back in and continued on. I added a bay leaf. To finish, added 1/2 c green olives. This was an excellent meal.
scrape the pot clean level Yumminess. 6 Stars! Fun introduction to some new spices for this cook.
This was so easy to make a whole family loved, I added some 1T chopped jalapeño, 3t of cilantro and 3 t lime juice. I wanted to add carrots but I didn’t have any on hand.
I was looking for a simple and easy recipe for carne guisada. This recipe was perfect! I will definitely make this again soon!
Oh man. This was a perfect dish and anything that pleases the Hubby is great! I cooked it a little quicker by slightly cooking the meat and boiling a pot of potatoes at the same time. In the end, everything was mixed together and poured over white rice. Thank you!
My boyfriend said it’s one of the best meals he’s ever had! However, I felt that a tablespoon of adobo seemed like too much, so thankfully I checked out the reviews and many people said it was salty, so I used a teaspoon of Adobo instead, and it was perfect! Very very flavorful!
This was a very good recipe, but I did make a few changes. Since we have a family of eight I had to double the ingredients. I also added one can of El Pato tomato sauce, which gave it a little heat, and used boneless round steak. Next time I will add carrots and celery. As a previous reviewer said, DO NOT add salt. It is very salty on it’s own with the sazon seasoning.
Made this more than once. It’s absolutely delicious and my whole family loved it!
This is a really great recipe the best way to prepare it is a slow cooker. The beef if very tender and the flavor is just like what I have had in San Antonio Texas.
Family loves it. I added some Spanish olives.
My boyfriend and his mom are from Puerto Rico and i’m completely white. His mom always cooks for me and it’s delicious so I wanted to return the favor. I made this for them and they thought it was absolutely PERFECT!!!! It was soo delicious! I will definitely be making this again! Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks the family loves it. They request it from time to time. Good recipe good food.
DELICIOUS!!!
Perfect recipe with authentic flavor. Delicious!
Making this tomorrow! Pretty excited! Will add another review and pictures then. Thank you!
This recipe was a simple and delicious stew! The meat was full of flavor and very tender. I used red potatoes because they hold their shape nicely. The sauce was a little salty, so next time I will cut back on the Adobo seasoning by by 25%-50%. This will definitely become a regular dish in my household. Goes well with arroz con gondules, too!
I live in Puerto Rico and I make my own sofrito, add this, also I add carrots and calabaza aka pumpkin. The local kind, not the big round orange ones like in the states. Other than that I pretty much make it just like this in my pressure cooker and yum!!
Aside from cooking the meat and sauce in the crockpot and roasting the potatoes I didn’t make any ingredient changes. Terrific taste!!!