A plate of pyttipanna vegetables, beet, and a fried egg.

A plateful of store-bought pyttipannu.

Pyttipanna, also pytt i panna (Swedish for "small pieces in pan"), is a hodgepodge of food similar to hash. Traditionally consisting of potatoes, onions, and any kind/s of meat and/or sausage, diced and then pan fried, it is often served with a fried egg, pickled diced beets, sour pickled gherkin, and capers.^[1] The dish was originally made from leftovers of past meals but now it is far more common to prepare pyttipanna from prime ingredients. Frozen pyttipanna of many varieties can be bought in almost every Swedish or Finnish supermarket. It's also a popular dish in Finland where it's called pyttipannu.

Many variants of the dish exist, amongst other reasons to cater to the growing vegetarian and vegan population. Pyttipanna is basically the same dish as the Danish biksemad.

Pyttipanna is often abbreviated to pytt and occasionally called 'hänt i veckan' ('happened this past week') reflecting its origin as a dish made with leftovers.

[edit] Similar dishes

• Bubble and squeak, from England.
• Colcannon, from Ireland.
• Rumbledethumps, from Scotland
• Biksemad, from Denmark
• Trinxat, from the Empordà region of Catalonia, northeast Spain, and Andorra
• Roupa Velha (Portuguese for "old clothes"), from Portugal, often made from leftovers from Cozido à Portuguesa
• Stamppot, from the Netherlands
• Stoemp from Belgium
• Hash (food), from the United States
• Also see hash browns and potato cake entries

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• English-language recipe on Radio Sweden website

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