Let me introduce you to a super easy Scandinavian budget friendly meal; pyttipanne.
You take onions and potatoes, cut them into tiny cubes like in the photo and throw them in a pan with butter/oil. Then you add salt and pepper to taste.
The idea is to throw in anything you have on hand that’s about to go bad. It’s usually made with tiny cubes of pork, but you can also cut up any other meat and/or vegetables you happen to have in the fridge. The only rule is that it also has to be cut up into small cubes.
Then you top it with a fried egg.
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Pyttipanna.
What I usually use;
– half a yellow onion
– one medium sized potato or two small potatoes
– one medium sized carrot
– one egg
– salt and pepper for taste
Instructions:
Chop the onion and add it to a pan with oil or butter.
Cut the potato/potatoes into small cubes like in the photo and add it to the pan.
Cut the carrot into cubes of the same size and add it to the pan.
Add salt and pepper.
Pour it into a bowl or on a plate.
Fry the egg, and add it on top.
this is basically home fries, i do the same myself, but ill microwave (can boil or bake) the potato a bit, then cube it up, makes it crisp up better with it being cooked a bit first, then onion, and sausage or spam fried with it.
It’s bubble and squeak in the UK I think
This is so random. I got a baby doll for my first birthday almost 40 years ago, living in Germany, and her name is ‘Pidapen’. I have no idea where the name came from, nobody in my family remembers, she didn’t come with it, we just spelled it how it sounded (we’re American). I just listened to a pronunciation of this and I think my doll was somehow named after a Scandinavian dish.
Looks delicious!
TIL diced potatoes with eggs has a fancy name. I’m not sure I’d really go so far as to call it Scandinavian food though, seems like a natural combination anywhere potatoes are eaten. Called papas con huevos around here even if the eggs are usually scrambled. (When the egg and potato are both fried they usually accompany a pork chop and beans.)
I’ve had sauted diced potatoes like this with the addition of a sliced tomato, a cracked egg and a tin of sardines before it was baked a few minutes at a high temp, tasty stuff.