Pyttipanna
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Pyttipanna — literally, a hotchpotch of food in a pan — is a Swedish food similar to hash, 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, sour pickled gherkin or capers. The dish was originally made from leftovers of past meals, but now it is far more common to prepare pyttipanna from prime ingredients.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 often abbreviated to pytt and occasionally called "Hänt i veckan" ("Happened this week", also the name of a Swedish tabloid), reflecting its origin as a dish made with leftovers.
