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A typical order of corned beef hash, hashed with potatoes and carrots.

Can of corned beef hash with a serving suggestion of cheese and an egg.

Hash is an American dish consisting of a mixture of beef (often corned beef or roast beef), onions, potatoes, and spices that are mashed together into a coarse, chunky paste, and then cooked, either alone, or with other ingredients. Occasionally, the term can be used to refer to any mixture of finely chopped ingredients.

In many locations, corned beef hash is served primarily as a breakfast food on restaurant menus and as home cuisine, often served with eggs and toast (or biscuits), and occasionally fried potatoes (hashbrowns, home fries, etc). The dish is usually known as corned beef hash with eggs, or corned beef hash and eggs. Alternative versions of the dish use roast beef hash.

Alternatively, in the southern United States, the term "hash" refers to a blend of leftover pork from a barbecue mixed with barbecue sauce and served over rice. It is a common side dish at barbecue restaurants and pig pickins in South Carolina and Georgia.

[edit] Similar dishes

In Scotland, the dish of "Stovies" is very similar to hash. There are many variations on the dish, but all consist of a base of mashed or coarsely chopped potato, with onions and leftover meat, usually mince or roast beef although there are many variations.

In Denmark hash is known in Danish as "biksemad" (roughly translated, "tossed together food"), and it is a traditional leftover dish usually served with a fried egg, bearnaise sauce, pickled red beet slices and ketchup. The meat is usually pork, and the mixture is not mashed together into a paste, but rather the ingredients are coarsely diced and readily discernible in its cooked form.

In Sweden there is a version of hash called pyttipanna and in Finland, pyttipannu. It is similar to the Danish version, but usually served without sauce.

In Austria and perhaps more specifically Tyrol there exists a similar dish called "Gröstl", usually consisting of chopped leftover meats (often being pork sausage), potato and onions fried with herbs (typically Marjoram and Parsley) and then served topped with a fried egg.

In Malaysia a similar dish is called "bergedil". It is usually made with minced meat, potatoes, and onions, fried until brown.

[edit] See also

Food portal

• Hashbrowns
• Pyttipanna
• Bubble and squeak
• Stamppot
• Garbage Plate
• Stovies

[edit] External links

Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on Corned beef hash

• 'Hashed Beef, Plain' at The Household Cyclopedia - A recipe for hashed beef from an 1800s cookbook
• Scandinavian Hash (Biksemad) recipe
• BBQ Hash Recipe at about.com - Recipe for BBQ Hash and Rice