Hash Browned Potatoes

How to make Hash Browned Potatoes Recipe - This is a "hash-house favorite."

Makes 6 servings

Ingredients:
3 cups diced cooked or raw potatoes
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1/4 cup minced onion (optional)
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley or fresh spinach (optional)
1/4 cup half and half (optional)
2 to 4 tablespoons butter or bacon drippings

Method:
In a large bowl, combine potatoes, salt and pepper, onion and parsley or spinach, if used. Stir in half and half, if used. In a slope-sided, preferably nonstick skillet, heat 2 tablespoons butter or drippings. Add potatoes.

Cook over medium heat until potatoes are browned and bottom is crusty, lifting potatoes at first until they are well-coated with fat. Reduce heat and cook until potatoes are tender, if using raw potatoes.

Add more fat, if necessary, to keep potatoes from sticking. Slide potatoes out onto a plate, then invert and slide from plate back into skillet, browned-side up.

Brown 5 to 10 minutes, shaking skillet constantly. Slide out onto a warm platter. Cut into wedges to serve.