There are so many good recipes in the Internet, written by much better cooks than me, that there is little reason for me to write a recipe unless I have made some small contribution. My contributions are quite small, but pyttipannu is so tasty and my version is as good or better, so this one I post. My variation is to use as the meat Polish chicken kabanos, those long, thin, dry and smoked sausages but out of chicken. This way you can offer pyttipannu to those foreign weirdos, who do not eat red meat but can eat poultry and fish.
In a civilized country you can buy ready frozen potato and onion mix for pyttipannu, but unfortunately this is not so everywhere. It is not too much work to chop them oneself. Take 12 potatoes, peel them, cook them and let cool. Then cut them into small cubes. Chop 3 onions into small pieces. Take some 300 g of kabanos and cut into small pieces. First fry onion in oil, then kabanos in oil and last potatoes in butter, like 50 g of butter, spice with salt and pepper and mix all. Put on plates. Fry 3 eggs sunny side up and lay on top of each plate. This recipe makes 6 portions, meaning like for three people as everybody is in any case taking two plates since it is so good. Then you have to fry 3 more eggs for the second portions. I have heard people claim that pyttipannu is not especially healthy, but what is so unhealthy with potatoes, sausage, onions, eggs, salt, pepper, butter and oil? You can next day eat raw cauliflower like in Finnish workplace lunches, that is for sure very healthy.
