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Corned Beef Hash

Have leftover corned beef from St. Patrick's Day? Make this Corned Beef Hash! Chop up your corned beef and potatoes, fry with onions, and serve as a side or for breakfast with eggs!

Elise Bauer

Elise founded Simply Recipes in 2003 and led the site until 2019. She has an MA in Food Research from Stanford University.

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Elise Bauer
Updated March 14, 2019
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Corned Beef Hash
Elise Bauer

Homemade Corned Beef Hash

Have corned beef left over from making corned beef and cabbage? (Yes I know, it's a stretch, but one can hope.) Make some homemade corned beef hash! Chop it up and fry it up with boiled potatoes and serve with runny fried eggs for breakfast.

Or don't wait (hope) for leftovers, making this hash is a good enough reason to make corned beef in the first place.

Corned Beef Hash
Elise Bauer

How to Make Corned Beef Hash

Wondering how to make corned beef hash? It's easy. Just sauté some onions, add chopped boiled potatoes and chopped cooked corned beef, and let them sizzle in the pan until browned and crispy at the edges. So good!

Add A Few Eggs

You can't have corned beef hash without a few eggs, right? You can add eggs in two ways:

  1. Fry or poach a few eggs in a separate pan and serve them alongside your hash.
  2. Make a few nests in your pan of corn beef and crack the eggs into them. Cover the pan for a few minutes until the whites are set, and then serve the eggs and the hash together.

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Corned Beef Hash

Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Servings 4 to 6 servings
If you have leftover cabbage from corned beef and cabbage, feel free to chop that up as well and add that to the hash.

Ingredients

  • 2 to 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped (about 1 cup)
  • 2 to 3 cups finely chopped, cooked corned beef
  • 2 to 3 cups chopped cooked potatoes, preferably Yukon gold
  • Salt and pepper
  • Chopped fresh parsley

Method

  1. Sauté onions in butter:

    Heat butter in a large skillet (preferably cast iron) on medium heat. Add the onion and cook a few minutes, until translucent.

    Sautéed onions in pan for homemade corned beef hash
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  2. Add potatoes and corned beef:

    Mix in the chopped corned beef and potatoes. Spread out evenly over the pan. Increase the heat to high or medium high and press down on the mixture with a metal spatula.

    Cooking corned beef hash in skillet
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  3. Cook until browned, then flip:

    Do not stir the potatoes and corned beef, but let them brown. If you hear them sizzling, this is good.

    Use a metal spatula to peek underneath and see if they are browning. If nicely browned, use the spatula to flip sections over in the pan so that they brown on the other side. Press down again with the spatula.

    If there is too much sticking, you can add a little more butter to the pan. Continue to cook in this manner until the potatoes and the corned beef are nicely browned.

  4. Stir in parsley, black pepper to serve:

    Remove from heat, stir in chopped parsley. Add plenty of freshly ground black pepper, and add salt to taste.

    Serve with fried or poached eggs for breakfast.