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Breakfast recipes

Weekday speed and weekend projects, from shakshuka to laminated pastry. 329 recipes, in a suggested order.

Eggs, porridge, pancakes, bakes and cooked breakfasts from many countries. On a weekday, read the time on each card first: it is the whole job, waiting included, so you can see what fits before work. The slower dishes, such as yeasted buns and baked eggs for a crowd, are the ones to keep for a weekend morning.

The 329 recipes come from 58 cuisines; the largest groups are American (150), British (29), Indian (26), Mexican (12) and French (9). Of these, 187 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Marmite on Toast (5 min), Dripping Toast (6 min) and Mug Omelette (7 min). For 67, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 274 easy, 46 medium and 9 hard.

As written, 230 are vegetarian, 39 vegan, 103 gluten-free and 83 dairy-free. Another 28 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

All 5555 recipes

Breakfasts

Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes

Tall, tender pancakes with a tangy edge and a golden, even surface. The lumps in the batter are not a mistake — they…

25 min · Easy
Shakshuka
Middle EasternFeatured
Prep
10m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Shakshuka

Eggs poached in a smoky, cumin-scented pepper and tomato sauce, served straight from the pan with bread for…

35 min · Easy
Brioche French Toast
American
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Brioche French Toast

Thick brioche soaked long enough to reach the centre, cooked slowly so the custard sets rather than scrambles. It is…

25 min · Easy
Three-Egg Omelette
American
Prep
5m
Cook
5m
Serves
1
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Three-Egg Omelette

Three eggs, butter, and about ninety seconds. The French rolled style has no colour at all and a barely-set centre…

10 min · Medium
Belgian Waffles
Belgian
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Breakfast

Belgian Waffles

Yeast-raised Brussels waffles: tall, rectangular, crisp on the outside and hollow-light inside, dusted with icing…

2 hr · Easy
Ultimate Avocado Toast
InternationalFeatured
Prep
8m
Cook
4m
Serves
2
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Ultimate Avocado Toast

Good bread, properly toasted, with avocado seasoned far more aggressively than instinct suggests. The difference…

12 min · Easy
Eggs Benedict
American
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Eggs Benedict

Poached eggs and ham on a toasted muffin under a blanket of hollandaise. The sauce is the whole game, and the…

35 min · Hard
Crispy Hash Browns
American
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Crispy Hash Browns

Grated potato squeezed bone dry, pressed into a pan of butter and left completely alone until a solid golden crust…

30 min · Easy
Crisp Belgian-Style Waffles
American
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Crisp Belgian-Style Waffles

Waffles with a crisp, deeply grooved shell and a light, almost hollow interior. Cornflour and whipped egg whites do…

30 min · Easy
Nasi Lemak
MalaysianFeatured
Prep
30m
Cook
40m
Serves
4
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Nasi Lemak

Rice steamed in coconut milk with pandan, served with sambal, fried anchovies and peanuts, cucumber and a boiled or…

70 min · Medium
Chilaquiles Verdes
MexicanFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Chilaquiles Verdes

Fried tortilla chips simmered briefly in salsa verde until they soften at the edges but keep a bite at the centre…

35 min · Easy
Aloo Paratha
IndianFeatured
Prep
30m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Aloo Paratha

Wholewheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and griddled in ghee until blistered. The Punjabi breakfast…

80 min · Medium
Maple Pecan Granola
International
Prep
10m
Cook
35m
Serves
12
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Maple Pecan Granola

Oats, nuts and seeds baked slowly in maple and oil until golden, then left completely undisturbed to cool so it sets…

2.5 hr · Easy
Breakfast Hash
InternationalFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Breakfast Hash

Potatoes fried until properly crusted, then peppers, onions and whatever else is in the fridge, with eggs cracked in…

45 min · Easy
Chicken and Waffles
American
Prep
30m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Chicken and Waffles

Buttermilk-brined fried chicken on a yeasted waffle, with hot sauce and maple syrup poured over both. Sweet, salt…

17 hr · Medium
Full English Breakfast
British
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
2
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Full English Breakfast

Sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and toast, all arriving hot at the same moment. The…

40 min · Easy
Açaí Bowl
International
Prep
10m
Cook
0m
Serves
2
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Açaí Bowl

Frozen açaí pulp blended thick enough to eat with a spoon, topped with granola, banana and honey. Brazilian in…

10 min · Easy
Loaded Breakfast Burrito
American
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Loaded Breakfast Burrito

Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…

30 min · Easy
Roti Canai
Malaysian
Prep
120m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Roti Canai

Dough rested in oil overnight, flipped and stretched until translucent, coiled, flattened and griddled so it pulls…

10.5–26.5 hr · Hard
Idli Sambar
Indian
Prep
25m
Cook
70m
Serves
6
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Idli Sambar

Steamed rice and lentil cakes, sour from natural fermentation and light as a sponge, served with a tamarind-sharp…

14.5–20.5 hr · Medium
Masala Dosa
Indian
Prep
30m
Cook
30m
Serves
6
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Masala Dosa

A paper-thin, tangy fermented crêpe wrapped around spiced potato, with coconut chutney and sambar alongside. South…

15–21 hr · Hard
Tamagoyaki
Japanese
Prep
5m
Cook
10m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Tamagoyaki

Sweet rolled omelette built from a dozen thin layers, cooked in a rectangular pan and rolled onto itself again and…

15 min · Medium
Huevos Rancheros
Mexican
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Huevos Rancheros

Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…

30 min · Easy
Menemen
Turkish
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Menemen

Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…

25 min · Easy
Rösti
Swiss
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Rösti

Grated potato pressed into a pan and fried slowly in butter until a deep golden crust forms on both sides and the…

7 hr · Easy
Berry Smoothie Bowl
International
Prep
10m
Cook
0m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Berry Smoothie Bowl

Frozen berries and banana blended with almost no liquid into something thick enough to eat with a spoon, then…

10 min · Easy
Ackee and Saltfish
Jamaican
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Ackee and Saltfish

Jamaica's national dish: ackee, a fruit whose cooked flesh looks and behaves remarkably like scrambled egg, sautéed…

12.5–24.5 hr+ · Easy
Manakish Za'atar
Middle Eastern
Prep
30m
Cook
12m
Serves
6
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Breakfast

Manakish Za'atar

Flatbread spread with za'atar mixed into olive oil and baked until the edges crisp. Bought hot from the bakery for…

2 hr · Medium
Loco Moco
Hawaiian
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Loco Moco

Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…

35 min · Easy
Century Egg Congee
Chinese
Prep
10m
Cook
75m
Serves
4
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Century Egg Congee

Rice cooked in eight times its volume of stock until the grains collapse into a silken porridge, served with century…

4 hr · Easy
Merguez Shakshuka
Tunisian
Prep
15m
Cook
50m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Merguez Shakshuka

Merguez browned first, then eggs poached in a tomato and pepper sauce built on harissa and caraway. Hotter and…

65–70 min · Easy
Blini with Soured Cream
Russian
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Breakfast

Blini with Soured Cream

Small yeasted buckwheat pancakes, thicker and more savoury than a crêpe, served warm with soured cream and whatever…

2.5 hr · Easy
Egg Hoppers
Sri Lankan
Prep
30m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Breakfast

Egg Hoppers

Fermented rice and coconut batter swirled up the sides of a small bowl-shaped pan, with an egg cracked into the…

9 hr · Medium
Trinidadian Doubles
Trinidadian
Prep
90m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Breakfast

Trinidadian Doubles

Two pieces of soft fried bara sandwiching curried chickpeas, with tamarind, cucumber chutney and pepper sauce…

11.5 hr · Medium
Boxty
Irish
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Boxty

Half raw grated potato, half mash, bound with flour and buttermilk and fried into pancakes with crisp edges and a…

35 min · Easy
Cottage Cheese Protein Pancakes
American
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Cottage Cheese Protein Pancakes

Pancakes bound with cottage cheese and eggs rather than mostly flour, sweetened by nothing but a ripe banana.

25 min · Easy
Banana Oat Pancakes
American
Prep
10m
Cook
12m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Banana Oat Pancakes

Pancakes made from oats, eggs and a very ripe banana, with no sugar, syrup or flour — soft in the middle and…

22 min · Easy
Savoury Cottage Cheese Bowl
American
Prep
8m
Cook
3m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Savoury Cottage Cheese Bowl

Cottage cheese with tomato, cucumber, olive oil and plenty of black pepper — eight minutes, no cooking.

11 min · Easy
Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins
American
Prep
10m
Cook
22m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins

Baked egg muffins bound with cottage cheese and packed with spinach and cheddar — six to a batch, 55 g of protein a…

32 min · Easy
Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs
British
Prep
5m
Cook
8m
Serves
2
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Breakfast

Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs

Eggs scrambled slowly over low heat until barely set, with smoked salmon folded in off the heat and plenty of dill.

13 min · Easy
Chocolate Chip Muffins
American
Prep
15m
Cook
22m
Serves
12
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Breakfast

Chocolate Chip Muffins

Bakery-height domes, a crumb that tears rather than crumbles, and chocolate the whole way through instead of sunk in…

37 min · Easy
Vegetable Frittata
Italian
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
6
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Breakfast

Vegetable Frittata

Eggs started on the hob and finished under a grill, with the vegetables cooked properly first so they do not water…

40 min · Easy
Dutch Baby Pancake
American
Prep
10m
Cook
22m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Dutch Baby Pancake

A single enormous pancake that climbs the sides of a screaming-hot skillet in the oven and collapses within a minute…

32 min · Easy
Kedgeree
British
Prep
20m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Kedgeree

Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…

50 min · Medium
Migas Extremeñas
Spanish
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Migas Extremeñas

Stale bread torn small, dampened, and fried slowly in garlic oil with chorizo and peppers until every piece is crisp…

3 hr · Easy
Eggs Florentine
French
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Eggs Florentine

Poached eggs on wilted spinach and a toasted muffin under blender hollandaise. The hollandaise takes ninety seconds…

35 min · Medium

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