Elise,
The has recipe looks good, but to be fair:
1. Shouldn't one always make hash with green
peppers in the mix?
2. Shouldn't hash only be eaten late at
night?
3. Shouldn't one consume a lot of alcohol
ahead of eating hash?

A couple of more thoughts here on the hash thing, because it really is important...

1. Most of my world lacks a meat grinder at home. This does not preclude the ability to make hash. Just dice finely with a knife, and it really does work.
2. The recipe above lacks any mention of the critical ingredient of the egg. Hash is an ideal complement to one or two eggs. What I like to do is fry them at the end in the middle of the well browned hash. Sunny side up is fine.
Rick

all your comments bring back wonderful memories of my mom's hash. In an effort to give our food plan some variety, I'm trying hash out on my family for the first time. Thanks for the tips and comments. I'll let you know how my menfolk react to this scrumptious dish.

Noooooooo...for hash you need corned beef. Mix with mash potato, add a little mustard, put in an oven proof dish. Cover with grated cheese & place in oven for 10 mns to melt & brown cheese

Yea, this has become a favorite for me here in Asia. I am lacking a grinder though that that is too heavy to lug around in my travels anyway. I make "something" that I call "hash" however, lacking a better name for it.

Half a kilo of ground beef, the fresher the better
1 large onion

2 medium potatoes

Half a clove of garlic (6-7 sections)

Tabasco Sauce or Chili Sauce

Ketchup

Some oil
Salt

Method of cooking depends on access to cooking equipment. If I have 2 frying pans available, I cook the meat and the other stuff seperately, otherwise, potatoes in first, then everything else.

The one pan method is easiest and easiest to clean up.

Onion is peeled, cut in half, each half is diced large. Potato is frenched with the skin on. Garlic is sliced.

Oil the pan, add some water, and throw in the potatoes, stirring for a while, then add chili sauce or Tabasco until it is more or less infused into the potatoes.

Add a little more water and toss in the rest, leaving the meat for last.

Add more sauce, either Tabasco or Chili until you are satisfied and add a little salt.

Go after the meat to make sure it crumbles finely and is well mixed with the other ingredients.

Keep stiring with a spatula or whatever you have until the meat is well done, the potatoes are soft, the onion is limp, garlic a little burned, and water mostly evaporated.

Turn down the heat and let the water finish boiling off.

You can strain off the fat and whatever residue is left, serve with ketchup. The beer here sucks, but a Bacardi Breezer, Chu-Hi, Sky Blue, or whatever goes well with it.

Do the potatoes need to be pre-cooked?

Thanks for the great hash recipe. I've made "hash" without running the ingredients through the grinder, but... in all fairness, any hash I've ever had away from home has been a finer hash. I'm going to try this recipe, because I like the idea of the crispiness, and I'll add an egg or two to the meal. Thanks for this posting

At Blue Ribbon Bistro we save all the beef tenderloin and Prosciutto scraps and trimmings from the week. the meat is diced and combined with blanched diced red potatoes, caramelized onions, garlic and fresh oregano and sauteed together with olive oil. We top the hash with two eggs any style. A little cracked black pepper at the table finishes the dish. Additional salt is unecessary because the Prosciutto is quite salty. Try it out.
DK

This recipe is perfect. I am the fourth generation in my family and it is has been made this way through them all. Happy Eating.

Thanks for the information. We love our hash down here in Georgia...Now I can make my own.

Lack of a grinder isn't as big a deal, if you have a good food processor. Pulsing right can get you a pretty good grind without going all the way to a meat paste. I think I saw an episode of good eats where he did this for making home made ground beef and it looked like it came out pretty good.

Wow! My mom used chopped-up, leftover meat, starch, and vegetable; stirred it together in a cast iron skillet and fried it in Crisco. Who knew there was actually a recipe, or that anyone used a grinder?!

I never ever though of making my own hash, in fact i don't even think i have eaten it but I know that John likes it .. we often have left over meat because we grow our own meat. I need to go back and look at the recipe some more! Thank you! celi

I dunno about using a grinder -- small, irregular dice always worked best for me; and this might interfere less with the meaty aspect of the chunks. There's a definite plus to using roast meat rather than braised meat. I always found that the meat from between the ribs on a standing rib roast worked especially well for hash. Left over boiled potatoes can be similarly diced, along with a bit of diced onion sauteed in butter. It's very helpful to have some good beef stock or light gravy handy to slightly moisten the assemblage. In many ways, I prefer hash to the original roast. Although using oil is always possible, it seems to me you get a better browned surface on the potatoes with butter. A few sauteed mushrooms can also be a good addition.

Elise, this is a classic that tastes really fine with two eggs over easy. Growing up, my Mom added cooked or leftover beets. Fabulous sweet flavor-called it red-flannel hash. I think you have a version on site with corned beef. Either way, it's delicious! As an aside, thank you for Simply Recipes; it's my go-to site for food I want to cook.

Hi Jim, love red flannel hash! Yes, we have a recipe for it on the site. Like the idea of using beets with regular roast beef, not just corned beef. Thanks for the suggestion! ~Elise

I just made this for the house, and it is a big hit, thanks! I used the pulse + puree and mix settings on my food processor and worked it in batches, it did great.

Thanks again for the great recipe.

I've been making something like this for years. If you want some color - add some pasilla or jalapeno peppers finely chopped. I also like some fresh garlic fried with mine.

After cooking and developing a nice crust - give it one last flip. Then scoop out some wholes in the hash. Place a small piece of butter in the holes and then add an egg. Cover the whole thing and cook the hash and eggs until the eggs are a desired doneness - three-5 minutes.

Makes a great one pot breakfast for a very large family.

I don't think there is an official hash recipe.

My favourite hash is after having a turkey dinner is combining turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, corn, cranberry sauce and gravy in a pan and cooking till nice and hot with lots of fresh ground pepper.

My late Mother-in-law used to add whatever dabs of leftover vegetables to her hash. She said it was never the same twice and called it "Calico Hash" due to the variety of colors in the finished dish. I loved it!

This seems like one of those simple and comforting dishes every cook should know...how come I didn't? Lol. I will certainly make this in the future. Thanks for posting it!

coming from a traditional irish family, corned beef hash was a regular staple of our diet. but my nana made roast beef as well as ham hash, usually after a sunday dinner. i have found a cafe that makes hash like homemade. i do not really like canned cause it gives me wicked heartburn. my husband never tried any of my hashes cause he said it looked like dog food. oh what he missed.