Corned Beef Hash

A rustic style, corned beef hash made with lean slices of corned beef, butternut squash mash and finely chopped vegetables, served with home made barbeque beans.

A satisfying meal on a cold, wet evening that is easy to make and great value for money, as well as being low in fat, carbs and ProPoints.

Serves 4 | 4 ProPoints/210 Calories per portion (approx)

Ingredients
To make the hash:
2 butternut squash
1 onion (large)
2 carrots (medium)
2-3 sticks celery
6-8 slices corned beef

To make the beans:
2 cans Haricot beans (300g cans) 
1 large onion
Garlic (2-3 cloves)
1-2 tspns smoked paprika
2 tspns tomato purée
2-3 tspns malt vinegar
1 tspn Worcestershire Sauce
1 tspn dark soy sauce (optional)
1 can tomatoes (400g can)
Salt and pepper

Method
1) Make a batch of barbeque beans according to our recipe (ingredients also listed above).

2) Peel, deseed and chop the butternut squash into 1-2cm cubes. Place on a baking tray and squirt on a few sprays of 1Cal oil. Sprinkle on a pinch of salt and black pepper then mix thoroughly so all the cubes are coated. Bake in a preheated 180 Celsius oven for around 30 minutes, or until the squash is soft and beginning to crisp at the edges. Turn the cubes at least once during cooking.

3) About 5-10 minutes before the squash finishes cooking, finely chop the onion, carrot, celery and chopped garlic and gently fry in a large pan or wok with a couple of squirts of 1Cal spray oil, until soft.  Add a dash of water if the vegetables start to stick to the bottom of the pan.

4) Remove the warm butternut squash from the oven and transfer onto a chopping board. Chop roughly with a large knife, using the side of the blade to occasionally mash down any bigger chunks. Don't chop/mash too much - the squash needs to be quite chunky and rustic.

5) Add the mashed squash to the pan of onion, carrots and celery and mix thoroughly. Break up the slices of corned beef, add to the pan and stir through the mash.

6) Serve each person with a quarter of the mash and a quarter of the beans.

Notes/Ideas
Different brands of sliced corned beef contain different amounts of calories. Check the brand you buy. We used Asda 'Chosen by You' Lean Sliced Corned Beef, which contains 5 slices and equates to 7 ProPoints.

When making the beans, leave out the paprika for non-barbeque tasting beans!

If you don't fancy the mash so chunky and rustic like us, mash it further or use a hand blender to purée it into a smoother mash, before adding the corned beef.

Use swede instead of butternut squash, or a mixture of the two! No change to the calories/ProPoints.