Potato & Chorizo Breakfast Hash | Jamie Oliver

It’s a cloudy rainy summer morning when I made the potato & chorizo breakfast hash. The stillness of the soft egg yolk in the pool of potatoes and chorizo is calming and brightens the day ahead, with or without the sunshine. I need to take in all the positivity around as much as I can, as infection rates surge, delivering nothing but the grim reality of the pandemic.

You’d need very few ingredients to put together the breakfast hash making it a no brainer in the early morning. Gathering a few potatoes, one leftover chorizo in the fridge, an egg and scallions, I started cooking for one.

I thought I can get away without cooking the potatoes first since they are tiny new potatoes. It’s a mistake because timing is everything in cooking. Even small new potatoes need time to get tender and become crispy later in the oven. So, don’t short change the potatoes like I did.

I don’t have parsley, but there are plenty of garden-fresh herbs around: green onions, mint and basil. For sure, basil adds a scent of herbaceous freshness to pull the dish together — for the day. The tune of “morning is broken” plays in my head…

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Potato & Chorizo Breakfast Hash

Serves: 2

Ingredients

• 1 large onion
• 1 clove of garlic
• 120 g quality chorizo
• 2-3 cooked potatoes
• 1/2 bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley
• olive oil
• 2 large free-range eggs

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 180ºC/ 350°F.

2

Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic, chop the chorizo, dice up the cooked potato and pick and finely chop the parsley.

3

Gently fry the onion and garlic in a little oil in an ovenproof pan until the onion is soft. Add the chorizo and fry for 2 to 3 minutes.

4

Add the potatoes and cook for 5 minutes more, then crack the eggs on top.

5

Transfer the pan to the preheated oven and bake for 8 minutes, or until the egg white is set but the yolk is still runny.

6

Sprinkle with sea salt, black pepper and the parsley, to serve.

Notes

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/potato-amp-chorizo-breakfast-hash/