Pyttipanna
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Pyttipanna - meaning bits of food in a pan - is a Swedish hash food, traditionally consisting of potatoes, onions, and sausage or ham, finely chopped and then fried in a pan. It is often served with either fried eggs and beetroot, or sour pickled gherkin. The dish was originally made from leftovers of past meals, but now it is far more common to prepare pyttipanna from prime ingredients.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 any Swedish supermarket.
Many variants of the dish exists, among other reasons to cater to the growing vegetarian and vegan population.
Pyttipanna is basically the same dish as the Danish biksemad, except that in biksemad the meat and potatoes are not diced. Pyttipanna is also widely eaten in Finland, where it is known as pyttipannu.
Pyttipanna is also known to be known as "Hänt i veckan" (translated to "Happened this week", also a name of a well-known tabloid) referring to the left over nature of this dish, since it would be made from what was made previously in the week.
