Farmer's breakfast

Farmer's breakfast

What you will need:

• 5 large potatoes
• 2 eggs
• Salami or sausage of your choice, I'd normally use a chicken sausage or Frankfurt sausage, anywho, its entirely up to you, go nuts
• small onion
• salt
• pepper
• frying oil of your choice, however, I wouldn't advise you to use olive oil as the flavours don't work well together
• yoghurt, or sour cream to top it, light mustards, such as french mustard works well too

So... you wash and peel the potatoes, or have someone nice to do it for you as Latvians try to avoid this chore whenever possible, wash the potatoes again. Slice them or chop them in whatever shapes you wish, make sure they are not too thick or else it will take ages to cook. Leave them to soak in water while you prepare onion and sausage.

An alternative to raw potatoes in this recipe is using boiled potatoes, they should be cold or else they will turn into mush. Slice them or chop them the same as you would do with raw potatoes. 

Skin the onion and chop it very finely, however if you like fried onion a lot you can do the opposite. 

Use a saucepan or a frying pan which has tall edges so that it will be easier to mix potatoes. Pour some oil into it, try not to use too much or too little. Now use a medium gas temperature, you can adjust it as you go along. Place the frying pan with the oil in it on the cooker and add potatoes. Mix them roughly every 3 minutes.

Now... if you use a salami you better fry it in a separate pan for a couple of minutes. You don't need to use oil for this. With other sausages you can add them to the potatoes without frying them beforehand when you will add the onion. 

Add the sausage or salami and onion after potatoes have been frying for roughly 20 - 25 minutes. Fry all of this together until potatoes are ready. If you prefer more crispy potatoes then fry until they are as crispy as you want them. Add salt and pepper to your taste. When this is ready add raw eggs to the pan and stir-fry until egg is ready. Done!

Serve with yoghurt or sour cream or mustard or whichever sauce you prefer. This dish is nice with kefir (latvian yoghurt drink) or ayran (turkish yoghurt drink). Spring onion serves well as a garnish! 

Maida