What Picadillo means
Picadillo is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "minced hash". It is built from Spanish picar (to chop) and -illo (diminutive). It is pronounced pee-kah-DEE-yoh, and it is most associated with the whole country.
The name is about knife work: everything chopped small. It is the standard filling for chiles rellenos and empanadas.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.
