Pink potato and corned-beef hash with fried egg, beets, pickles, and herring.

Labskaus

Germany · Europe

Short description
This hearty hash turns preserved meat, potatoes, and pickles into a pink, salty meal.
Ingredients
Potatoes, corned beef, beetroot, onion, pickled gherkins, fried egg, pickled herring, butter, and pepper.
Cultural note
It is associated with sailors’ preserved ingredients and sturdy port-city cooking.
Common misconception
It is not meant to look like a tidy patty; many versions are soft, pink, and mash-like.

image credit

Hamburger Labskaus 1.jpg

creator:
GeoTrinity
license:
CC BY-SA 3.0
modified:
Copied from Wikimedia Commons via a Commons redirect thumbnail, center-cropped/resized, and re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.