Cuban Picadillo

Very close to the picadillo my Cuban friends taught me to make when I was in college. It took me a while to figure out what was missing. The potato cubes were fried till they were crispy and crunchy. They were not mixed in to the picadillo but rather layered--rice, beans, picadillo, potato cubes. It seems to me there was an additional sweet element--peas maybe. And it was spicier. But this is pretty close and pretty darn good.