If you’re lucky enough to have leftover roast potatoes from your Christmas dinner, then why not reuse them for a delicious Boxing Day breakfast?
Leftover potatoes or sweet potatoes can be repurposed into a quick and easy breakfast hash, with onion, bacon (or whatever leftover roast meat you have in the fridge) or smokey chorizo.
The addition of eggs and cheese make this meal great for a quiet breakfast after all the excitement of Christmas has died down.
The recipe by YouTube chef Andrew Rea (better known as Babish Culinary Universe) has been a staple in my house for a number of years now. It’s quick, easy, filling and delicious and is the perfect bottom-of-the-fridge meal.
Potato hash recipe
Ingredients
Around two large leftover roasted potatoes
4 rashers of streaky bacon (or any leftover meat you have from roast dinner)
1 white onion diced
1 red pepper diced
A handful of sage
Four eggs
Method
Chop up your leftover potatoes into 2cm cubes, and then if you’re using bacon, get that into a skillet and fry.
Remove the bacon but leave the fat in the pan. If you’re not using bacon, heat up around 2 tablespoons of butter in the pan.
Add your diced onion and red pepper to the pan and saute for about three minutes, before adding in your potato chunks.
Toss everything in the pan to make sure it’s covered in fat, and then press the potatoes into an even layer and let them sit undisturbed on a medium heat for about 2 minutes.
Using a firm spatula, dig underneath the potatoes and flip them so the other side can brown. Repeat this step 3 or 4 times until all the potatoes and brown and crispy.
Add in your herbs – chopped sage or rosemary or whatever you have in the house If you’re using leftover meat, add this now, or add the chopped and cooked bacon back in.
If you want, you can leave it here and eat it, but for an added breakfast feel, you can create four divots in the hash into which you can crack four eggs.
Cover the pan with a lid and let the eggs steam, before you add a sprinkling of mozzarella to the top for a melty, gooey delicious breakfast.
