Hash browns

[TVR Sagaris]

Tried this BBC recipe a couple of times (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hashbrowns_12454) which makes decent hash browns but involves a lot of labour for something that isn't very special.

Suggestions for good hash brown recipes that don't take ages to make please.

[condor]

I just saute the previous days left over potatoes ( prepare enough to make sure there are leftovers )

Easiest way I can think of

[james_tigerwoods]

Not sure if this count, but I simply grate 4 or 5 potatoes, squeeze out all the liquid with a tea towel (there are probably easier ways) and salt. I then heat a pan with olive oil (not butter as that burns) and press the potato mixture on to it, press it down and shape every now and then, turning occasionally - 10-15 minutes later, lovely Hash Browns

[Dan_1981]

I buy them frozen for a quid a bag from Asda - I know its a bit of a cop out but they taste as good as anythign i've tried to make and when I want a fry up to cure my hangover, I quite like being able to bung them straight in the oven.

[mattdaniels]

TVR Sagaris said:

Tried this BBC recipe a couple of times (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hashbrowns_12454) which makes decent hash browns but involves a lot of labour for something that isn't very special.

Suggestions for good hash brown recipes that don't take ages to make please.

Define "ages to make" ??

How long does it take you to grate some potato and fry it???

[Murph7355]

Dan_1981 said:

I buy them frozen for a quid a bag from Asda - I know its a bit of a cop out but they taste as good as anythign i've tried to make and when I want a fry up to cure my hangover, I quite like being able to bung them straight in the oven.

This.

[Pferdestarke]

Murph7355 said:

Dan_1981 said:

I buy them frozen for a quid a bag from Asda - I know its a bit of a cop out but they taste as good as anythign i've tried to make and when I want a fry up to cure my hangover, I quite like being able to bung them straight in the oven.

This.

But they're bloody horrible fatty little processed triangles of doom!

Rostis are a bit of a pain to make unfortunately.

[TVR Sagaris]

mattdaniels said:

Define "ages to make" ??

How long does it take you to grate some potato and fry it???

With peeling them and grating the onion, it feels like a long time for something so basic; I want to eat them as part of a breakfast that otherwise takes a few minutes. The BBC recipe says at least 30 minutes preparation time.

[mattdaniels]

TVR Sagaris said:

mattdaniels said:

Define "ages to make" ??

How long does it take you to grate some potato and fry it???

With peeling them and grating the onion, it feels like a long time for something so basic; I want to eat them as part of a breakfast that otherwise takes a few minutes. The BBC recipe says at least 30 minutes preparation time.

Well, you're asking for the moon on a stick then. You either make them, and it takes as long as it takes (and IME it does not take 30 minutes to peel and grate a couple of spuds), or use pre-made ones (even some you've made yourself and frozen).

[mattdaniels]

mattdaniels said:

Define "ages to make" ??

How long does it take you to grate some potato and fry it???

I like a challenge

BBC Hash brown recipe says 30-60 minutes preparation time, 10-30 minutes cooking time.

I've just done that recipe, with bacon, poached egg and coffee, with pics and notes, in 26 minutes end to end.

Pics/timings to follow, I've got some eating to do.

Edited by mattdaniels on Thursday 28th March 09:48

[captainzep]

I always make way too much mustard-mash the night before, pop it in the fridge overnight then shape a handful into a generous pattie and brown in some oil/butter. Top with a couple of rashers of bacon and a poached egg. Nothing finer.

[mattdaniels]

Presenting...

The Great PH "Under 30 Minutes" Hash Brown Breakfast

(Yeah ok, I was a bit bored )

Time	Task(s)	Pics
Preconditions	* You have all the ingrediants * All the utensils you need are washed up * Recipe is to hand (pref. gaffer-taped above the hob) * Even if your kitchen is a building site it is ready for action
00:00	* Put plate in oven on lowest temperature setting to warm * Two frying pans on the hob, vegetable oil in both and heat * Fill and boil the kettle * Choose four spuds and an onion from the vegetable store
01:00	* Peel spuds
03:45	* Pour boiled water from kettle in to a saucepan on the hob, put heat on high
04:15	* Find ground coffee * Wipe dust off coffee machine * Fill coffee machine with water and coffee
06:00	* Chuck peelings * Grate spuds and onion
10:00	* Beat one egg in a bowl * Drain juice from veg
12:00	* Two rashers of bacon in to one of the frying pans * Switch coffee machine on * Mix grated veg into beaten egg and season well
14:30	* Dollop some hash brown mixture in to the other frying pan in a chef ring and pat it down with a fork
16:30	* Take the chef ring off the hash brown and flip the bacon
19:00	* Flip hash brown
21:00	* Twirl the saucepan of boiling water and crack an egg in to it
23:00	* Turn the poached egg off * Turn the oven off * Pour a coffee
23:45	* Lift the poached egg out to drain
24:00	* Plate up
24:30	* Stop the clock

Hash brown with poached-egg and bacon:

DONE

Subsequent experimentage with the remaining HB mixture showed that I needed much more veg oil in the pan. My hash brown was more of a rosti really. They do need a serious glug of oil to fry. I think these came out much better:


Nom! Nom! Nom!

Right, I really must get some work done now.

[marctwo]

Great work. Bookmarked.

[evoivboy]

they are rosti's

[mattdaniels]

evoivboy said:

they are rosti's

Well, the OP's recipe calls them hash browns. And they have onion in. Rosti's are just plain potato. So meh. Whatever they are, they don't take 90 minutes to make.

[TVR Sagaris]

Thanks Matt - I admire your dedication and that looks delicious. I need to get a chef's ring.

[Pixel-Snapper]

TVR Sagaris said:

I need to get a chef's ring.

Awwwwww so many childish replies.

Looking good Matt that sure is breakfast dedication.

[captainzep]

Pixel-Snapper said:

Looking good Matt that sure is breakfast dedication.

-Dedication's what you need.

[Laurel Green]

mattdaniels said:

Hash brown with poached-egg and bacon:

DONE

Is it wrong that I read that in a Gordon Ramsay voice.

Excellent Result!

[DudleySquires]

In the breakfast photo thread I said:

mattdaniels said:

I'd love to try making some HBs like those! Got a recipe?

Then I saw this thread and said:

aaaah! Will try these