Last week, I cooked corned beef silverside in the slow cooker. It’s provided me with more meals than I expected. Tonight, I cooked a corned beef hash.[i]

Recipe

🥔🐂 Ingredients

• Two tablespoons of butter
• One small potato
• One small finely chopped onion.
• One small green capsicum
• Two slices of corned beef
• Half a teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper.
• Optional — one fried egg.

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🔪🥘 Instructions

1. Prepare the potato.
   • Cut the potato into six pieces and par-boil for five minutes.
   • Dry the potato with absorbent paper.
   • Freeze the potato overnight to develop resistant starch.
   • Deep fry the frozen potato pieces in beef fat.
   • Finish the potato on a hot barbecue grill.
2. Sauté the onion and capsicum.
   • Heat some butter in a frypan over medium heat.
   • Add the onion and capsicum. Cook until softened.
3. Mix in the Corned Beef
   • Dice the corned beef into small cubes.
   • Add the corned beef to the frypan and add half a cup of water.
   • Bring the water to a simmer and cook until the water evaporates and the corned beef becomes slightly crispy.
4. Optional Egg Topping
   • In a separate frypan, fry an egg.
   • Serve hash topped with a fried egg for extra richness. The oozy yolk combined well with the fatty, unctuous meat.

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🍳Tips and Variations

• Make it cheesy: stir in shredded cheddar or mozzarella at the end.
• I used a microplane to grate some Parmesan cheese over the corned beef, egg, and potato.

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📷Photographs

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A note about some of the images.[i]

Thoughts on the meal

Tinned corned beef is convenient. This meal tasted better than tinned corned beef. Tinned corned beef has a lot of salt; making it from scratch allowed me to titrate the salt to my preferred taste.

The potato wasn’t burnt. I seared it on a hot barbecue grill. The potato was delightfully crispy and pillowy soft inside, like good chips should be.

Questions

• Do you like corned beef hash?
• How would you use leftover corned beef?
• What variations would you recommend?

🥮Sweet treats

I had a craving for some pastries. I enjoyed a pavlova roulade, passionfruit fudge vanilla slice, and salted caramel Berliner.

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[i] A note about the images used in this post. The featured image and a couple of other images were generated with Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. I’m conscious that there are some bloggers and readers who oppose the use of large language models for generating content. I’m comfortable with using large language models to help with content on YummyLummy.com

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[i] Corned beef hash is a hearty, savoury dish made by combining chopped or shredded corned beef with diced potatoes and onions, then frying the mixture until it’s golden and crispy. It’s a classic comfort food with roots in frugal cooking—originally designed to use up leftovers, especially from a corned beef dinner.