Corned Beef Hash With Fried or Poached Egg

photo by Caroline Cooks

- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 large potatoes, cooked and cubed
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced (optional)
- 1 red pepper, cubed
- 1 green pepper, cubed
- 1 (12 ounce) can corned beef, cubed
- 4 eggs, fried sunny-side-up (poached is also good)
directions
- Heat the butter and olive oil (or just one kind of fat) over medium-high heat in a large cast-iron or heavy-bottomed skillet.
- Add potatoes and allow to get golden and crusty on one side (about 2-3 minutes). Gently turn over with a spatula and do this a couple more times to get a golden crust all over.
- Add onion and garlic and saute with potatoes for 4-5 minutes; then add peppers, sauteeing a couple of minutes more.
- Finally, add corned beef and cook for 8-10 minutes, always flipping hash over every couple of minutes to ensure a crust develops on all sides. This should take about 20 minutes in all. Adjust seasoning - it won't need too much salt because of the corned beef, but LOTS of freshly ground black pepper is a GOOD thing.
- You can prepare the eggs in another pan during these steps.
- Distribute hash mixture amongst 4 plates and top each serving with a fried or poached egg.
- Season with Hot Sauce at table, to taste.
- Enjoy!
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Hello evelyn/athens, what a fantastic recipe! Delicious! We are testing "breakfast/brunch" ideas for our Mother's Day Brunch and we had a ball with this one! It was made just as posted and we used the canned corned beef, we used red onions, white potatoes, red & green red peppers and I was all ready to eat it without the beef! Needless to say, it was great! They don't usually eat corned beef around here so guess what - we introduce them to it and they make it their own. Diane :=)
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this is outstanding - a superquick version is just to thinly slice canned whole potatoes and fry in butter with diced onion [to taste]... add canned corned beef, mashed/broken apart with a fork until heated, and a little crusty... the canned beef is raised in brazil and i think their animals aren't given all the antibiotics and hormones, etc that cattle in the US are routinely given - this is a Really Good, Inexpensive meal to make -
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.