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Egg Butter (Finnish Munavoi)

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Egg Butter (Finnish Munavoi) : savorylotus

I may have mentioned it before, but I am originally from Finland.  I spent my early years in the land of a thousand lakes, the midnight sun, and cold winters.  And our dinner table was always full of traditional Finnish foods.  The one that has stuck with me after all of these years is Egg Butter or Finnish Munavoi.

Egg Butter is exactly what it sounds like.  Eggs and butter.  YUM!  In the United States, you make egg salad with mayo.  And I’ve been known to eat a good egg salad, as long as the mayo is homemade.  In Finland, you skip the mayo and just add butter.  It’s simple.  It’s easy.  And OMG is it good!

I’m all about finding nutrient-dense foods to feed myself and my family.  Eggs (especially from pastured chickens) and butter (from a grass fed source) are superfoods in my book.  Eggs are one of my most favorite sources of protein.  Pastured egg yolks are also a good source of Omega-3’s.  Then there’s the vitamin E, vitamin D, B vitamins, selenium, iodine, and phosphorous.

Oh, and the butter! Amazing, delicious, nutritious butter.  Don’t believe the hype.  Butter has gotten a bad wrap for years as being an artery-clogging, heart attack-causing food.  The truth is that butter is a vitamin, mineral and antioxidant rich food with many healing properties.  Before the introduction of processed vegetable oils, our ancestors enjoyed healthy amounts of butter and lived robust, vital lives.  Read more HERE about the health benefits of butter.

When Dr. Weston Price studied native diets in the 1930’s he found that butter was a staple in the diets of many supremely healthy peoples.1 Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter. Arab groups also put a high value on butter, especially deep yellow-orange butter from livestock feeding on green grass in the spring and fall. American folk wisdom recognized that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and thin, with “pinched” faces. (source)

This ain’t no gourmet recipe.  It’s just eggs and butter.  But it’s good.  It’s healthy.  And the kids are going to love it.

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Egg Butter (Finnish Munavio)

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Ingredients

  • 2 hard boiled eggs
  • 2 TBS butter or ghee, softened
  • unrefined sea salt (I use this one), to taste

Instructions

  1. Mash peeled hard boiled eggs with butter (or ghee) with a fork until eggs are broken up and mixture is spreadable. Salt to taste.
  2. Serve on your favorite bread, crackers, or salad. Or do what I do and eat it off the fork. ENJOY!

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I love to eat this with my “Cheesy” Paleo Crackers and my Grain Free Everything Crackers.

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  1. Melissa says

    February 12, 2014 at 9:11 am

    Wow, I am really looking forward to preparing this. Thank you for sharing Katja!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  2. Ayumi says

    February 12, 2014 at 3:24 pm

    Thank you for sharing! We love this!

    Reply
  3. melissa says

    February 28, 2014 at 9:15 am

    Even though I am from Tennessee. I can remember my grandmother fixing this but it had to be mashed in a clear glass. It was the best and really brings back some great memories.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Katja says

      March 1, 2014 at 7:52 am

      Food memories are the best for me, especially if they involve my grandmother. Thanks for coming by!

      Reply
  4. Phyllis says

    September 2, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    I too am Finn – this was a favorite of all the elders in my family from way back and just off the boat into the USA – incredibly I had forgotten about it until I came across your site – you can best believe I won’t forget it again – DELICIOUS – Kittos!!!!

    ★★★★★

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    • Katja says

      September 3, 2014 at 6:01 pm

      ole hyvä! I am so glad that you found my recipe. This it total comfort food for me! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Marcia Smith says

    February 21, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    This sounds wonderful. Going to go make it now.

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    • Katja Heino says

      February 21, 2019 at 10:03 pm

      Hope you enjoy! It’s such a childhood comfort food for me. 🙂

      Reply
  6. Pamela Loughridge says

    March 8, 2019 at 7:33 am

    My husband is Finnish. I always loved Mummu’s egg butter with her traditional rye bread. Sadly she has passed on recently leaving me with a lot of her precious recipes all documented in Finnish language. I am searching for a recipe for what she called “S Cookies” they are cinnamon and sugar cookies that melt in your mouth. They were always plentiful at Christmas time. Would you have a recipe for these treasures? I would be ever grateful if I could give them a try as they are my husband’s favorite. Would like to surprise him with a little memory of his dear Aitti.

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    • Katja Heino says

      March 12, 2019 at 11:55 am

      That is so sweet of you to try to recreate a childhood fav for him. My family didn’t eat S cookies, so I don’t know what they are. I found this online:
      http://www.arctic-cloudberry.com/2015/04/assa-vekarapaat-grandmas-traditional.html
      Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for. 🙂 Mmmmm… egg butter and dark rye. I love it!

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    • Jussi says

      August 24, 2019 at 12:45 pm

      Hey Pamela! The s-cookies you’re looking for are called “kaneliässä”. Hope you find a good recipe and are able to translate it.

      Reply

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