Pyttipanna

Pyttipanna is a Swedish dish that means "small pieces in a pan". It's traditionally made purely of leftovers but it's much more common now to use prime ingredients if your making it yourself (most people buy frozen ready made pyttipanna). This version is a mix of the two because it uses raw potatoes but leftover meat. This recipe uses the three base ingredients potato, onion and meat but you can add fried mushrooms, sausage or ham, or almost any type of root vegetable to vary it. The key characteristic of pyttipanna is that whatever you choose to put in it you make all the pieces approximately the same size. The typical size of the dices tends to be 1cm by 1cm but that's only because the frozen products are that size, just try and keep them kinda small and the same size and it wont matter.


8-10dl diced raw potato
2 chopped yellow onions
4dl diced meat that is already cooked (anything from roast beef to fried pork chops)
salt
pepper
1 egg per person/serving

Rinse the potato cubes in cold water so that the starch is washed away. (otherwise the will stick together during the frying) Then let all the water drain.

Fry the potato cubes until they are golden brown then remove them from the pan and repeat the process with the onion and then the meat.

Once the meat has gained some color mix everything together and season with salt and pepper.

Fry each egg in the way each person likes and place on top of their portion.

Traditionally served with pickled red beets but ketchup works quite well with it.


Enjoy!