Corned beef hash - or any Corned beef dish
Corned beef hash - or any Corned beef dish
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james_tigerwoods

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16,344 posts

219 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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I was drawn to corned beef the other day and I now have a tin of it in the cupboard at home - now, I do accept that it's not the greatest use for beef, but I do remember my Mum making a corned beef and tomato type dish which was nice, but not sure if I can quite remember what was in it.

However, I want to make a corned beef hash and I've found some menus online but there's a wide dispersion of what should/could be in it - what recipes do the PH foodies use?

Or am I consigned to food hell - especially as I quite like Spam and offal too....

J500ANT

3,102 posts

261 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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I use the Delia recipe, and its lovely. http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient...

YAD061

39,731 posts

306 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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prime, low fat corned biff

tin of potatoes

tin of tomatoes

tin of beans

chopped onion

dash of L£P, HP or whatever takes yer fancy

mixed herbs

throw in a pot and fester

serve with crusty bread and beer

james_tigerwoods

Original Poster:

16,344 posts

219 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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J500ANT said:
I use the Delia recipe, and its lovely. http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient...
Printed - not sure about the fried eggs though....

anonymous-user

76 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Onions
1 x Tin Baked Beans
1 x Tin Carrots (seems to make the dish as opposed to fresh for some reason)
1 x Tin Corned Beef
Tomato Sauce
Water
2 x Oxo Cubes
Worcestershire sauce
Salt and Black Pepper

Prepare on the hob ala spag bol, then into a dish top with creamy cheesy mash wink and oven bake!

Might do this at the weekend, not done it for ages smile

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 12th February 16:13

F i F

47,819 posts

273 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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YAD061 said:
tin of potatoes
TIN of spuds? TIN of spuds? TIN of spuds? TIN of spuds.

Get back behind that tree!

hehe

I can recommend Swedish pyttipanna recipes using corned beef as the meat element, served with fried egg(s) sunny side up and beetroot.

Loads of recipes for pyttipanna on the net.

YAD061

39,731 posts

306 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Weeeeeell, we're hardly talking Esther Bloomingthing here are we. This is stuff to pack for some tentage fun

Mobile Chicane

21,783 posts

234 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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A corned beef sandwich using really fresh crusty white bread is surely the thing?

I either use Dijon mustard to cut the greasiness of the corned beef, or increasingly the Jewish beetroot-horseradish sauce, chrain.

Awesome.

WestYorkie

1,811 posts

217 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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When you guys do a CBH do you do it in the frying pan with beans and mash etc?
My CBH is a lovingly prepared layered dish of sliced Potatos, corned beef and onions. Really nice dish and I'll be making one tomorrow after this thread smile

condor

8,837 posts

270 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Corned beef hash should be...you've already used the first slices out of the tin for sandwiches with either mustard or branston pickle on fresh crusty bread lick
Now you're left with drying out corned beef....so get some potatoes mashed, add the 'close to going out of date' corned beef...then add lots of flavourings, ie tomato ketchup, Lee & Perrins, fried onions, anything else in the cupboard eek
Just mash it all up together, fry it in the pan...and see how it turns out smile

Proper student meal that smile

Herbie58

1,705 posts

212 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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Two food posts in one night, I'll get a reputation. Stovies. Another Scottish dish, dead easy comfort food.

Fry an onion in beef dripping (has to
be beef dripping, no other fat subsitutes), add the tin of corned beef and break up into mixture. At the same time boil half a dozen peeled potatoes, when cooked crush them into the beef and onion mixture and mix well. Season.

Really tasty, fattening, but hey ho it's comfort food.

Shaw Tarse

31,835 posts

225 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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Tin of corned beef.
Tin of tomatoes.
Tin of spaghetti.
Mix & add salt, pepper Worcetershire sauce.
Top with mash.
Bake.
Eat.

OliverTwist

1,292 posts

194 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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^ With cheese

AstonV12

5,346 posts

230 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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With parents being from the West Indies, this is a typical corned beef and rice dish:

x1 tin corned beef
x1 scotch bonnet pepper, chopped
x2 gloves garlic, crushed
x1 onion
x1 tin sweetcorn
black pepper
x1 tin tomatoes

chop onions and garlic and sweat. Then put corned beef into the pan and cook gently. Add the sweetcorn, scotch bonnet peppers and stir gently. This will be smelling good by now. Add tinned tomatoes and season with black pepper and salt. Also add a dash of encona hot pepper sauce to enrich the scotch bonnet flavour.
Cook for about 20minutes. Serve with hot, steaming basmati rice with a bit of salted butter added. Proper filling meal in under 30mins.

jet_noise

5,992 posts

204 months

Sunday 14th February 2010
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Dear james tigerwoods,

I've just had a corned-beef-sandwich-lunch week. Pickle, tomatoes or coleslaw are my preferred additions.

The corned beef was rather special though - Haymans butchers (Sidmouth) own made, oh yes smile

regards,
Jet

Plotloss

67,280 posts

292 months

Sunday 14th February 2010
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My grandmother used to do a dish with sliced onion, corned beef and mashed potato all mashed together in a bowl.

Placed on a baking sheet, topped with cheese and grilled.

Might have a crack at this in the week, had completely forgotten about it until this thread.

callisto

62 posts

195 months

Sunday 14th February 2010
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I grew up on food like this - there is no poncy stuff in it.

It is quite simply slices of "Bully Beef" or the modern equivalent of cold tinned corned beef (note: UK Corned Beef from Brazil is nothing at all like USA "Corned Beef" which I believe is more like Brisket?)

The cold corned beef slices are simply covered in a load of hot mashed potato, and of course some salt and pepper seasoning.

I've tried it with hot corned beef and it is nowhere near as good. The fat drains out and it somehow loses its "presence"?

There are also loads of arguments about using onion - and mashing it all up together.

But *MY* fave corned beef hash is slices of cold corned beef, ontop of which is a few slices of hot bacon, and then the mashed potato with butter. Salt not needed due to bacon, pepper is a must.

Mrs Cuchillo

805 posts

272 months

Monday 15th February 2010
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Toad in the hole but with slices of corned beef in place of the sausages.

jet_noise

5,992 posts

204 months

Monday 15th February 2010
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Dear All,

while on Memory Lane you've triggered a heretofore deeply buried dish from my student days:

Corned beef curry.
1 can corned beef - cubed.
1 tin curry sauce of your choice - there was only one back them.

Combine, heat and serve with rice,

regards,
Jet

OllieWinchester

5,695 posts

214 months

Tuesday 16th February 2010
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This is a family favourite, remember my grandma cooking it for me when I was a nipper.

Its my favourite comfort food so I cook it quite regularly, I don't think there is a wrong way of doing it so really its up to you how you decide to interpret it, but here's what I do.

Fry off a thinly sliced onion, then let it cool.

Mix a tin of corned beef with a load of mashed potato, add the onion, then chuck some of the mixture in a frying pan and sort of pat it so its flat and round. Fry on a high heat, and then you can flip it like a pancake when it starts to crisp up. Doesn't matter if it breaks up, just reshape and carry on, just means more crispy bits. Then plate up an excessively large portion, fried egg on top, beans on the side, icy cold stella to wash it down with.

Edited by OllieWinchester on Tuesday 16th February 00:45