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Potato Hash Recipe

Tex-Mex style cheesy potato and bacon hash recipe is perfect for a quick lunch or dinner.

Potato hash with cheese and bacon

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*Post update February 2023

Easy to make skillet recipe; ready to eat in 15 minutes if you use leftover cooked potatoes and only 30 minutes if you cook them from scratch.

So it's a win-win dish because as well as being known as fast food it tastes delicious!

You could make this with cooked leftover sweet potatoes for a delicious sweet potato hash.

What is potato hash?

A plateful of cheesy potato and bacon goodness. 'Hash' is a culinary dish consisting of chopped up meat, potatoes, and onions fried in a heavy-bottomed skillet or frying pan.

Recipe top tips!

Of course, you can swap some of the ingredients if you want to it depends on what you happen to have in your fridge and if you're vegetarian just leave out the bacon or use Quorn bacon strips.

Don't be worrying about the mention of chilli flakes because ancho chillies are mild and sweet in flavour.

Ancho (ahn-choh) chilli flakes are made by drying fresh poblano chillies and are readily available in any good supermarket.

Their name comes from their broad shape when dried and, by the way, ancho means wide in Spanish. But if you're really fussed you can of course just leave them out.

Samuel Groves Ultimate carbon skilletu

Is half the weight of traditional cast iron; I'll tell you more about it in a bit because it really is excellent.

Formed by pressure (not cast) to create a virtually impenetrable pan, which then goes through a further 'under wraps' treatment which makes an inherent change to the pan’s composition, to create a sealed low maintenance pan, which doesn’t require constant seasoning and will not rust.

They will also withstand really high temperatures and are just as at home in the oven as on the hob and are supported lifetime guarantee.

Plus they will not break if dropped (whereas cast iron could).

Samuel Groves Ultimate Carbon Pan Collection

I've used my Ultimate Carbon 10-inch Skillet Frying Pan a good few times now and it's just brilliant at holding heat, the potatoes and bacon I cooked for this recipe were really easy to get nice and crispy.

By the way, it's also available in 12-inch if that suits your needs plus the range includes Chefs and Griddle pans too.

Ultimate carbon pans will improve with age if the seasoning, and patina can build up. 

What is patina?

Food would stick easily to a new bare metal pan therefore it must either be oiled before use or seasoned.

The coating is known as 'seasoning' and is initially created by a process of layering a very thin coat of oil on the pan.

Then, the oil is polymerized to the metal's surface with high heat for a time. The base coat will darken with use.

This process is known as seasoning; the colour of the coating is commonly known as its patina.

The very first time I used my pan after following the 'seasoning' process below.

I did find I had to soak the pan, (once the pan had cooled properly of course) in nice hot sudsy water in order to clean off some lightly burned-on food, but the whole thing took less than 10 minutes.

With that said, now that I've used the pan a few times, it's now far easier to clean and the food doesn't stick.

Although the Ultimate Carbon pans are dishwasher safe Samuel Groves says they strongly recommend against this in order to maintain the seasoned finish.

Ingredients 

  • vegetable oil
  • streaky bacon rashers
  • leftover cooked baby potatoes
  • Taco seasoning mix (I used the brand Old El Paso)
  • 1 red or green chilli 
  • dried ancho chilli flakes
  • a few baby tomatoes 
  • cheese 
  • spring onions (scallions) 
  • flat leaf parsley 
Cheesy Potato and Bacon Hash

What to serve with potato hash

Serve with a nice green salad or just a drizzle of sour cream. If you're really hungry you could top it with a fried egg.

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Potatoes, Brunch, Lunch, Leftovers
Tex-Mex
Yield: 2
Author: Jan Bennett
Potato Hash Recipe

Potato Hash Recipe

You could serve this with a nice green salad. If you are really hungry you could top it with a fried egg. Prep and cooking times are if you use leftover cooked potatoes.
Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 10 MinTotal time: 15 Min

Ingredients

  • 8 smoked streaky bacon rashers - cut into 1cm strips
  • 400g baby potatoes - skin on and cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 1 tablespoon taco seasoning mix (I used the brand Old El Paso)
  • 1 red or green chilli - thinly sliced
  • a pinch of dried ancho chilli flakes
  • a few baby tomatoes - halved
  • 70g cheese - cut into small dice
  • 3 spring onions (scallions) - thinly sliced
  • a small handful of flat leaf parsley - leaves only

Instructions

  1. Ideally use cooked leftover potatoes or parboil the potatoes until tender.
  2. Remove from the heat, drain well and leave in the saucepan to get cold.
  3. Heat up a frying pan and add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Add the bacon and cook until it's nice and crisp moving it about so it cooks evenly.
  4. Once it's cooked to your liking (we like our bacon nice and crispy) remove the bacon using a slotted spoon and set aside.
  5. Don't wash the pan, use the oil to cook the rest of the dish.
  6. Add the cooked potatoes and cook over medium heat stirring gently for about 4 minutes.
  7. Sprinkle over the taco seasoning mix and stir well to coat. Cook for a further 2 minutes before adding in the sliced chilli.
  8. Once the potatoes are nice and crispy.
  9. Put the bacon back in along with the chilli flakes, tomatoes, cheese, and spring onions.
  10. Cook for a couple of minutes until everything is piping hot, scatter of the parsley and serve straight away.
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