Delicious Corned beef hash in 20 minutes (Speedy Meals)

Member Name: buckhysen

Product:	Speedy Meals
Date:	03/03/09 (259 review reads)
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Advantages: Quick, cheap & easy, very tasty, slightly different to the usual Corned beef hash

Disadvantages: None that I can think of

Corned beef hash has always been one of my favourite ever dinners and now my kids love it as well.
I used to make it differently and the long way for many years, which meant putting everything in an oven dish with mashed potato and cheese on top and putting it in the over for half an hour plus. Which totalled to about an hour after preparing, etc.

In recent years I have found a much quicker, easier and nicer way to make corned beef hash, which makes this an ideal meal to make if you are late home or in a rush.
By making it this way you can have it on the table in about 20 minutes (Or less) from start to finish.

Firstly, you will need....

Ingredients
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Potatoes - How many depends on how many you are cooking for.
Note - I use baby potatoes and leave the skin on, they taste so much nicer once fried.
1 tin of corned beef
1 x whole onion
Splash of Olive oil
2-4 tablespoons of Worcester Sauce
1 Tablespoon of Wholegrain mustard
1 or 2 Eggs per person

Optional
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Teaspoon of mixed herbs
Black pepper to taste

Utensils/etc
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Saucepan
Frying pan
Bowl
Small cup or bowl
See through saucepan lid (Optional)
Tea towel/Kitchen towel
Usual cutlery (Spatula, mixing spoon, etc)

I have made this many times over the years and have perfected this to the way we like it although I suggest changing the Worcester sauce measures to find the taste you like, it basically depends how strong you like it.

OK so here's the process I use to cook from start to finish in about 15-20 minutes.

1. Fill a saucepan half full (Or enough to cover the potatoes you are using) of water and boil.
2. Dice up the potatoes in roughly 2cm squares and add to the boiling water, then reduce heat (Medium) and leave for about 5 minutes, so potatoes are still quite firm.
3. Whilst the potatoes are cooking add some Olive oil to a frying pan and set to just over medium heat.
4. Cut up the onion into as smaller pieces as you prefer it and fry in frying pan.
5. Meanwhile dice up the corned beef into 1cm squares and put into a small bowl.

This process should only take around 5 or 6 minutes.

6. Whilst stirring the onions every once in a while add the Worcester sauce and wholegrain mustard to a cup and stir.... then pour over the corned beef, stir to mix in a little and then leave to soak.
7. After 5 minutes turn off the potatoes, pour onto a tea towel or kitchen towel and dry... then add to the onions in the frying pan.
8. Stir them into the onions and then cover with a saucepan lid (It helps them cook quicker), turning and stirring every once in a while until the potatoes start to go brown.
9. As soon as the potatoes start to brown add the corned beef and any excess Worcester Sauce & Wholegrain mustard that have formed at the bottom of the bowl... and stir. Cover again with saucepan lid to speed up cooking.
10. (Optional) At this point I add a teaspoon of mixed herbs and some black pepper and stir in. It just gives it a nicer final flavour.
11. Continue to stir every so often so that the potatoes and corned beef don't burn, I usually serve once the corned beef has started to break apart and mix into the potatoes, about 5 or 6 minutes.
12. After serving the hash onto plates, add a little more Olive oil to the frying pan if needed and then fry one or two eggs per serving.
Note - A good tip is to place a saucepan lid (Glass/see through if possible) over the eggs when they are frying, it saves having to turn them, and you can see how runny they are and when the ideal point is to take them out of the pan (Obviously this depends on how you personally prefer your eggs).
13. Once eggs have fried, place on top of corned beef hash and serve.

I find the mixture of the Worcester sauce and wholegrain mustard into the corned beef really adds to the flavour. Whilst the mixed herbs and black pepper give a nice after taste to the potatoes, which can sometimes taste dry on their own.

The preparation should take no more than 5 minutes. Then 5 minutes to boil the potatoes and start the onions frying. Anything from 5-8 minutes to fry the potatoes, and then the corned beef and then a couple of minutes at the end to fry the egg.

Cost
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This is extremely cost effective for a family wanting to tighten their budgets during the recession. I cook this for myself and two children and it breaks down like this....

1/3 of Tesco Baby new potatoes - 33p
1 Onion (From bag of Tesco cooking onions) - 10p or probably less.
1 tin of corned beef - £1.18
4 Eggs (From tray of Tesco Eggs) - 40p
Worcester sauce/Wholegrain mustard/Mixed herbs/Black pepper - Say 20p?

A meal for 3 or 4 for about £2.00. Excellent value for money if you ask me, for such a tasty meal.

Delicious Corned beef hash in 20 minutes!

Summary: One of the nicest quick and cost effective meals you can cook.