Margarita's Cuban Ropa Vieja

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb flank steak
• 1 medium onion
• 1 green pepper
• 2 garlic cloves
• 6 stuffed green olives
• 1/8 cup sugar
• 1/8 cup raisins
• 1 cup red wine
• 1 (8 ounce) can chopped tomatoes
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon sazon goya seasoning

Recipe

• 1 brown the flank steak and then transfer to crock pot or deep roast pan.
• 2 sautee' green peppers and when softened, add onion, and garlic and seaxonings.
• 3 once softened, add tomatoes. stir together and pour over flank steak.
• 4 add red wine to mixture and stir inches flank steak should now be fully submerged in the sauce.
• 5 cover and heat to boiling. reduce afterwards to simmer and cook for an hour, occasionally stirring the ropa vieja.
• 6 after an hour, remove the meat from the liquid and let sit for ten minutes.
• 7 taking two forks, create super stringy strips out of the flank steak by scraping and moving the forks through the meat. the meat will naturally separate into stringy pieces.
• 8 return the stringy flank steak back to the liquid,.
• 9 add raisins, green olives and sugar. simmer covered another twenty minutes.
• 10 serve on a bed of rice. http://www.cubancuisine.co.uk.