One Pot Texas Hash

Hash recipes are ideal for breakfast or brunch, or you could even enjoy them for lunch or dinner. With rice, meat, and vegetables in there, you don’t need to think about side dishes either. It’s a recipe that’s wide open to interpretation, so you can adjust and tweak this simple one pot Texas hash meal as much as you wish.

Something else you might want to do is double or triple the recipe because this easy Texas hash keeps well, and it’s also a dish everyone will want to try at large gatherings. If you have to cook for a lot of people, this family friendly one pot Texas hash will feed all the brothers, sisters, cousins, and uncles in the family.

Along with the juicy beef, this quick one pot Texas hash recipe includes rice, tomatoes and bell peppers, cheese, and plenty of flavorful seasonings like chili powder, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and more. “Hash” is the name given to any recipe which is a mixture of different ingredients. Corned beef hash is the best-known version and it’s a tasty mixture of beef and potatoes.

This beef and rice hash offers a change of pace and is sure to brighten up breakfast or brunch, and it’s even a welcome sight when you’re having breakfast for dinner.

So why not give it a try tonight? You won’t be disappointed!

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Why You’ll Love the Recipe:

This easy Texas-inspired breakfast hash is simple to make and it’s so versatile. You can have it for any meal and also change any of the ingredients you want. This dish also keeps for days and is easy to reheat, so it’s worth making extra.

• Customizable: You can tweak the ingredients in almost any direction to suit your tastes. For example, choose brown rice if you’d like to amp up the fiber or try some black grain rice for a cool look.
• Easy: After gathering the ingredients, there’s only a few things to chop before you start adding all the ingredients to the pot, which makes this easy one pot Texas hash for beginners a great option for new cooks.
• No Mess: All you need is a cutting board for the vegetables and a big pot for the hash, which means you can make your delicious hash and enjoy it without having to deal with a big sink full of dishes at the end.
• Nutritious: This is the best one pot Texas hash recipe because it’s actually healthy with nutrition-rich ingredients like peppers, rice, garlic, and olive oil.

This is definitely the best one pot Texas hash recipe I’ve made, and I’ve tried a lot of hash recipes. It’s probably the perfect combination of ingredients and spices that creates such a perfect blend at the end of cooking.

This is one of those dishes you could serve your entire family and not have one complaint, but you could also make a big pot of it and just reheat little portions for yourself every so often when you needed a little comfort food. 

How to Serve It:

Enjoy this Texas hash hot. It’s always good with that wonderfully melted cheese on top! You might like to add some extra flavor, flair and protein by serving a fried egg on top. Although we often associate hash with breakfast, you can definitely serve this hearty dish at any time of the day and twice on Sunday!

Can You Make It Ahead?

Since it reheats so nicely, this is definitely a dish you can prepare in advance if you like.

Tips for Success

Don’t have absolutely every spice or ingredient for this dish?

Don’t worry, a quick search through your cupboards might give you a few homemade one pot Texas hash ideas that will help you make this meal when you’re missing an ingredient or two.

This recipe is designed in its ingredients and execution to feel very easy and stress-free to make, so you should take that same sentiment to the ingredients list.

Don’t have Roma tomatoes or a large tomato you’d normally use for this dish? Any other tomato is fine, whether it’s a tiny cherry tomato or a giant beefsteak tomato.

Don’t have olive oil? It’s okay, you can use canola oil or avocado oil or any cooking oil you have in your cupboard.

As long as the general ingredients of the dish remain the same, the end result shouldn’t taste too different. You may even find with experimentation that you find an extra ingredient that makes this dish one-of-a-kind.

Ingredients:

• Worcestershire sauce
• Chili powder
• Onion chopped
• Uncooked long-grain white rice
• Ground mustard
• Green bell pepper chopped
• Black pepper
• Tomato paste
• Ground beef
• Water
• Minced garlic
• Diced tomatoes undrained
• Salt 
• Olive oil
• Shredded cheddar cheese for garnish

How to make One Pot Texas Hash:

Step 1. Add the oil to a skillet over medium-high heat on the stove. Always allow the skillet to heat up fully before adding the oil to ensure nothing sticks to the pan. 

Step 2. Place the ground beef, onion, and peppers in the skillet, and sauté until the meat is browned and the vegetables have softened. Drain the excess grease. 

Step 3. Reduce the heat to medium, and stir in the garlic, chili powder, ground mustard, salt, and pepper.

Step 4. Sauté for 1 minute. Don’t walk away from the skillet; one minute isn’t that long! 

Step 5. Mix in the tomato paste and rice. Sauté for 3–4 minutes. Add a teaspoon of water if the mixture gets too thick. 

Step 6. Pour in the water, diced tomatoes, and Worcestershire sauce. Stir to combine, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. 

Step 7. Remove the lid and stir well before serving.

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Storage Instructions:

Leftovers will keep for up to 4 days in the fridge, or you can freeze the Texas hash in serving-size portions for up to 3 months. Avoid refreezing the hash if it thaws out completely after freezing. 

This Texas hash stands up reasonably well in the microwave for reheating, but you can also warm it nicely in the oven with excellent results.

Avoid turning the oven on too high (above 375 degrees) so you don’t dry out the hash while reheating it. You can put an oven-safe cover on your dish while you reheat it in the oven to keep it from losing moisture.

Variations and Substitutions:

Amp up the Vegetables: Add any other vegetables you want to this Texas hash or switch the rice for potatoes or even another grain like barley or quinoa.

Switch the Meat: This hash also tastes delicious with ground turkey as its meat base instead of ground beef.

Get Creative With Cheese: Cheddar is always a favorite, but some Colby jack or four-cheese Mexican blend would do nicely here, too.

Dial the Spice Down: Hold back or reduce the chili powder and pepper if you have eaters with sensitive stomachs. Also try to avoid getting seeds from the chopped pepper in the skillet.

Simplify the Spices: You can use prepared mustard in place of the mustard powder and pre-minced garlic instead of freshly minced to simplify the ingredients.

Make it Low Salt: Worcestershire sauce has salt in it, so you can eliminate the added two tsp of salt and still get a savory result from the ingredients. You can even buy low-salt Worcestershire sauce to make a healthy one pot Texas hash version.

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