# Carne Guisada Puerto Rican style

A delicious Puerto Rican style carne guisada with tender, juicy, and flavorful meat.

- Cuisine: Spanish
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 lb beef for stew
- vinegar
- salt
- black pepper
- adobo
- cumin
- olive oil
- 5 cloves garlic
- oregano
- 1 spoon sofrito
- 1 cube beef bouillon cube
- 1 spoon tomato paste
- red wine
- water
- 2 leaves bay leaves
- 2 units potatoes
- 2 units carrots
- 0.5 cube half beef bouillon cube
- 1 unit green plantain
- chopped cilantro

## Instructions

1. Cut the beef for stew into cubes.
2. Place the beef cubes in a bowl and add vinegar.
3. Mix the beef and vinegar with your hands.
4. Season the beef with salt, black pepper, adobo, and cumin.
5. Mix the beef with tongs to combine the seasonings.
6. Heat olive oil in a pan over a stove.
7. Add the seasoned beef to the hot pan and sear.
8. Stir the beef occasionally with tongs until browned.
9. In a mortar, crush garlic cloves and dried oregano.
10. Pour the mixture into a blender and blend until a sofrito paste is formed.
11. Add sofrito to the beef in the pan.
12. Add the crushed garlic and oregano to the beef.
13. Sprinkle a beef bouillon cube over the beef.
14. Add a spoonful of tomato paste.
15. Mix all the ingredients together in the pan.
16. Pour red wine into the pan.
17. Add water to the pan.
18. Add bay leaves to the stew.
19. Cover the pan and let it simmer.
20. Peel and chop potatoes into cubes.
21. Peel and chop carrots into rounds.
22. Check on the beef stew and stir.
23. Add more water if needed.
24. Add the chopped potatoes to the stew.
25. Add the chopped carrots to the stew.
26. Pour more water into the pan.
27. Sprinkle half a beef bouillon cube over the vegetables.
28. Mix the vegetables into the stew.
29. Cover the pan and continue to cook.
30. Peel a green plantain.
31. Slice the plantain into thick pieces.
32. Fry the plantain slices in oil until golden.
33. Remove the lid from the stew and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.
34. Serve the carne guisada over rice with fried plantains and sliced avocado.

## Equipment

- cutting board
- knife
- bowl
- tongs
- pan
- stove
- mortar and pestle
- blender

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ-Y_RqEYKm/?igsh=MXRtZmI3MTk2Ynh1ZQ==
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- Extracted: 2026-05-03

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