Corned Beef Hash Breakfast Burritos
Looking for a quick and easy breakfast idea that’s just a little different from your normal fare? Check out these Corned Beef Hash Breakfast Burritos, they’re FAST and EASY and have to be tasty, right?
You can make them with canned Corned Beef Hash or from your corned beef leftovers! Need a recipe for that? Try this Corned Beef Hash Recipe from A Little or a Lot!
Read about Alaska in the ’70s
If you want to read about Why I Never Ate Corned Beef Hash as an adult skip way down past the recipe card. I don’t want to bore anyone with a story that isn’t part of the recipe but it’s a fun story about being “lost” in Alaska when I was a kid.
What You Need to Make Corned Beef Hash Burritos
You only need 4 ingredients to make these breakfast burritos.
- corned beef hash
- eggs
- cheese
- large burrito-size tortillas
If you can’t find large burrito-size tortillas use smaller tortillas and make small burritos or breakfast tacos instead of these large corned beef Hash breakfast burritos
Other Breakfast Recipes We Love
When I’m making a small breakfast just for two, I love to make this easy Denver Omelet recipe. It’s perfect for two, or you can double it to make more! Or if you have time this Sausage Frittata is an excellent breakfast.
Corned Beef Hash Breakfast Burritos
Ingredients
- 25 oz corned beef hash
- 1 cup shredded cheese pepper jack and extra sharp are mighty popular around here
- 4 eggs cooked however you want
- 4 flour tortillas large burrito size, or use smaller tortillas and make tacos or small burritos
Instructions
- warm the tortillas by wrapping them in foil and placing them in the oven at 350° while you make the rest of the burritos, alternatively, you can use the microwave and skip this step
- heat a cast iron or other heavy frying pan over medium high heat, when it’s hot add the corned beef hash
- spread out the hash, and lightly press down with a metal spatula, and leave it alone, if your stove cooks at a higher temperature turn it down a little, you don't want to burn the hash
- cook until it's crispy on the bottom, 8-10 minutes
- meanwhile cook eggs how you prefer them, typically we make scrambled eggs
- after 8-10 minutes, flip the hash and cook again for another 5-8 minutes until the other side is crispy, adjust heat as needed for your stove
- once the flip side of the hash is crispy, turn off the stove
- make burrtios, lay out one tortilla and add 1/4 of the corned beef, 1/4 of the eggs, 1//4 of the cheese
- with the filling in the middle fold the lower edge up and over the hash, fold the ends in and roll it over towards the top flap
- repeat with remaining tortillas
Notes
- add hot sauce, salsa, or any other toppings you like
- if you are using smaller tortillas make small breakfast tacos instead or make smaller burritos
Nutrition
BEING STRANDED AT A LAKE IN ALASKA IN THE 70s
I have a secret, until I was an adult, I hadn’t eaten or had any desire to ever eat corned beef hash. It all goes back to the late 70s, early 80s when I was on a fly-in fishing trip with my parents to a family friend’s cabin on Tazlina Lake.
We flew in fine, no problem landed on the lake, and all was good. We enjoyed a week of splendid isolation, amazing salmon fishing, and beach combing. I swear Tazlina Lake is so huge it actually had a tide, albeit a very small one, that brought in new driftwood every day—not so many shells but lots of driftwood.
When it was time to leave, we packed up and waited for our pilot to fly in for us. He did fly in, but he flew right past. He called us later on the CB and told us the wind was too strong and the waves were too big to safely land his float plane, and he would try again the next day.
The next day, the same thing happened: repeat, repeat, repeat, and keep repeating. Now, my parents didn’t panic; they were totally calm. I hardly knew there was a problem; I was 10, and I didn’t care. “We get to stay an extra day? YAY!!”
But every day, my dad would look at our dwindling food stocks—pretty much salmon and maybe some leftovers from what we brought. Then he would dig into the cabin’s canned goods pantry, which seemed very well stocked with corned beef hash. Every extra day we stayed, we ate corned beef hash for one meal and salmon for another. I still didn’t worry; I was with my parents, and it was all good.
Rescue!
Until the National Guard Helicopter landed on the tundra behind the house, then I panicked. The National Guard was rescuing us?? Are we lost? Endangered? In trouble?? The only time I’d seen the National Guard was the winter of ’78 when we had a HUGE wind and snow storm that lasted something like 10 days and the National Guard had to come out and plow out some driveways because they were so full of hard packed snow. That year we rode our sleds right off the roof of my Grandmother’s milking barn onto the drifts, it was awesome!
Back to Tazlina, suddenly having a giant helicopter touch down made me feel incredibly small and somewhat lost. The trip up and down the highway looking for the one small lake we took off from and our wee little truck didn’t do anything to make a girl feel any better.
From then on, I couldn’t eat corned beef hash And salmon, it took me 20 years to willingly eat salmon again and something like 35 years to even think about corned beef hash. It took my kids and my husband cooking it in the kitchen to even think of it as food I might want to think about, I scare easily.
wow! I enjoyed your story as much as I did the recipe. Well done
Ha! I’d forgotten this post! Thanks for reminding me about it.