What to do with corned beef apart from make a sandwhich?

[TheSleepFairy]

I have 3 tins left over from a hamper & need some inspiration on using them for dinner tonight?

Bake some potatoes

Cut in half and scoop out the innards and mash them with corned beef and cheese

Put the mixture back in the skins

Sprinkle with grated cheese and toast under the grill

Family favourite here :)

Corned beef hash? recipe idea here

I make a cottage pie type thing with it, either cooking it first like mince with added chopped veggies or if I'm feeling lazy, I'll just put diced corned beef in a dish with chopped carrots, onions and whatever other veg seasoning and a tiny bit of liquid/stock (otherwise it goes very soggy), top with mashed potatoes and bake for around an hour at around 180/gas 4.

Corned Beef & Potato Pie - a staple childhood meal, usually seved with mushy peas :)

Or

Potato cakes - make mash, add corned beef, make into 'patties' dust in flour and cook in the frying pan

Veggie now so now make the potato cakes with stuffing mix instead - also yum!! (you have to put hot water into the stuffing mix to let it get soft first before adding to the mash)

The Pie is good cold too, so makes a nice thing for 'tea' or packed lunch.

When I was a student, I regularly cooked up my version of hash which was basically corned beef and instant mash all mixed up together. Serve with ketchup and the cheapest, nastiest white wine you can find. Yum.

Or it may have been that my taste buds and sense of appropriate cuisine was temporarily wrecked by consumption of said wine.

It was totally my favourite meal at the time. None of my flatmates ever wanted to share it though, oddly.

This is called Penaculty in my family (they're all northern) but is probably better describedas corned beef stew.

One tin of corned beef
one - two onions
Potatoes chopped into cubes about (4 medium ones)
3 or 4 carrots
Suede
leeks
frozen peas
basically any veg you have lying around.
2 beef stock cubes
Gravy mix
Brown sauce

Chop onions and stir round in a large pan for a minute or so. Add all veg and water. Add two stock cubes. Cook for 10 mins then add a tin of corned beef cubes. Mix round. Cook until potatoes are ready. Add gravy mix (use the granules)until its as thick as you want it. Add a good squirt of brown sauce. Eat as it is or with some nice crusty bread, over Yorkshire puddings, or with dumplings.

Got to be eaten with the brown sauce!

Sound yummy but very appropriate you're called 'Salter' - that'd send my DHs blood pressure off the scale

It is! Salt is probably my one and only vice. Can't eat a meal without covering it in Salt first.

Delias version of Corned Beef Hash is a firm fave here,

Corned beef
Worcestershire sauce
Wholegrain mustard
onions
carrots
potatoes

(No measurements, I don't do measurements I'm afraid!)

Mix good dollop of worcestershire sauce with a couple of teaspoons of wholegrain mustard and pour over cubed corned beef. Give a couple of grinds of black pepper, but no salt.

Leave to marinate.

Meanwhile finely chop and fry onions

Chop carrots and dice potatoes to about 1 inch squares. Boil Carrots and par boil potatoes (you dont want them to go sloppy)

Warm a bit of oil in large frying pan and add veg, cook for about 10 mins until edges of potatoes starting to brown (keep turning them though). Add the corned beef and fry for another 5 mins.

Serve! (Lovely with a fried egg on top too)

This is one of DH and DDs faves and only takes half hour to sort.