This was what commercial corned beef hash dreams of being.

[madbaker]

This week's Resolution Recipe: (Gourmet) Corned Beef Hash

Or, what did I do with the jealously-guarded last of the house-cured corned beef?

2 cups chopped corned beef (leftover house-cured as linked above)
about 2 cups small potatoes, parboiled or steamed for 5-10 minutes (organic, from our CSA box)
1 medium onion, chopped (ditto)
1/4 cup chopped parsley (ditto, ditto)
1/4 cup shortening (infused olive oil left over from previous night's homemade tapas dinner: pimientos de padron cooked in olive oil with shrimp, mushrooms, garlic, and saffron)
Added: 4 chopped cloves fresh garlic, 1/4 lb sliced mushrooms - both bought at the farmer's market this weekend, and the chopped scallion-like onion top from the abovementioned purple torpedo onion)

Mix all except grease together. Heat grease in a skillet and spread mixture evenly in it. Fry, turning frequently, for 15 minutes or until browned sufficiently to taste.

What worked: This was nearly the Platonic ideal of corned beef hash, complete with slightly runny poached eggses on top made by bonacorsi. (The eggses were from free-range chickens with names, from our CSA folks.) We didn't need to eat anything else until dinnertime, but it was a good fullness.

What didn't: Um, I suppose I could have shredded the corned beef a bit better, and let it cook another five minutes to crisp up a bit more? Really, I had to work to come up with those.

Will I make it again? Next time I corn some beef brisket, oh yes.

Hash for Breakfast

Comments

[loup_noir]

Just the recipe made me hungry. A really good hash is just the ticket. About once a year I take the plunge, knowing full well that I'm going to be sick the rest of the day, and enjoy a little Irish soul food. Your version sounds and looks incredible.

[hyla-regilla.livejournal.com]

OM NOM NOM!

seriously, I don't like corned beef very much except in hash. Now I'm HUNGRY for some... and no corned beef is anywhere :P

That reminds me...

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

My gram used to feed us hash and eggs for breakfast on the farm quite often. Loved it! Her other best breakfast was fresh caught trout fried (in butter) with fried potatoes. Yeah, and she lived to be 96. What can I say?

Yum, yum, that's what!