A recipe for an autumn nights supper, on a budget.
This is a recipe for those of us really feeling the pinch of the recession. But don't worry if your pockets are a little light, you can make a decent meal on any budget.
Even if you take out a few of the ingredients you don’t lose that much flavour. But it is a good stodgy winter’s night’s supper for two.
Corned Beef Hash Recipe
You will need all of the following:
- One tin of good quality corned beef.
- Five or six decent potatoes.
- One onion
- Half a pack of decent sized closed cap mushrooms. Or about eight.
- Two peppers, any colour (I use red and green for contrast)
- One ball of Mozarella, any supermarket brand will do.
- One small jar of hot salsa sauce (alternatively you can make your own)
- Worcestershire sauce
- Paprika
- Ground black pepper
- You need one boiling pan and one large frying pan or wok, and two earthenware baking dishes of medium size.
Directions:
- Firstly chop your potatoes into quarters and boil in a pan of water until soft. Don’t peel them, the skin is the best bit and it is full of vitamins Chop your onions, peppers and mushrooms finely or coarsely, as you prefer and fry in a pan until the onions are brown and everything is soft.
- Open the corned beef (taking caution not to cut yourself) and add to the wok. Using a spatula hack it down to small chunks. Stir it into the vegetables.
- Set your oven at 180 c and allow it five minutes or longer to heat up.
- By now the potatoes should be just soft enough so drain the water through a colander and add the potatoes to the wok. Again use the spatula to hack them down to small pieces and stir or ‘fold’ the mixture.
- Add two heaped tablespoons of salsa sauce and one of worcestershire sauce. Continue to stir and taste occasionally. Add black pepper if you feel it needs it. Reduce heat of the cooking ring.
- Then use a serving spoon to transfer the mix to two thick single-serve oven dishes.
- Open the Mozarella, drain the water from the packet and slice as thinly as possible. Place the slices (about three each) over the mix and sprinkle with a little paprika.
- As an alternative to the Mozarella you can use a poached egg as a topping, a la Momma Cherri
- Place in the oven and cook for 7-10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly. It will keep for up to three days, beef is a fairly safe foodstuff.
