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Sautéing Ingredients for Rocoto Relleno

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Victor Albisu: Hi, I am Victor and were making Rocotos Rellenos. We going to start sauting the vegetables and browning the meat. On a hot pan, very hot pan add little, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, say about five tablespoons or so. Once you get a little smoke coming, red onions; garlic, very classic combination obviously red onions and garlic sauting in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Latin cuisine.

Diced tomato, here you just want to let, you can get a little brown color to it, golden not too brown, make sure all the flavors incorporate but the juice is out before you season it. Latin cuisine just like Mediterranean or Italian cuisine, also you cook lot of with by smell, the aroma is coming from the Pan right now, telling you that the pan is getting ready for the meat.

So, next we add the pork, fresh ground pork shoulder, fresh ground beef chopped. At this point, we are going to add ground cumin, very traditional flavor in Latin cooking. I am going to salt the meat in the pan. When you add salt, releases a lot of moisture, I add salt to the top to allow the incorporation and to continue to brown the vegetables and the meat underneath, while seasoning in it at the same time.

Make sure youre cooking at a high heat, now once the moisture is evaporated from the pan whats left to extract are the oils and the fats in the pan. That will in turn begin to brown the meat even more and thats where the flavor really begins to come in. We have tomato, weve onion and garlic in there and thats going to add a lot of moisture to the pan but when you are cooking on a high heat, the moisture will eventually go away and what will be left, will be the fat and the meat.

And theres where you get your flavor. Next step, well be finishing the meat and cooling it to stuff in the peppers.

Expert: Victor Albisu

Victor Albisu may have been born in northern Virginia, but he seems “born” with Latin food in his blood. Victor’s mother is Peruvian, his father is Cuban; one grandfather was a baker; and two aunts owned their own restaurants in Miami – Latin food was central to his upbringing. In fact, he doesn’t have a single childhood memory that doesn’t involve some delectable Latin cooking or other. Then he went More »