Breakfast
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…
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Shakshuka
Eggs poached in a smoky, cumin-scented pepper and tomato sauce, served straight from the pan with bread for…
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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…
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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…
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Belgian Waffles
Yeast-raised Brussels waffles: tall, rectangular, crisp on the outside and hollow-light inside, dusted with icing…
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Ultimate Avocado Toast
Good bread, properly toasted, with avocado seasoned far more aggressively than instinct suggests. The difference…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Aloo Paratha
Wholewheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and griddled in ghee until blistered. The Punjabi breakfast…
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Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
Flaky buttermilk biscuits split open under a peppery sausage gravy. A Southern breakfast built on cheap ingredients…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Roti Canai
Dough rested in oil overnight, flipped and stretched until translucent, coiled, flattened and griddled so it pulls…
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Arepas
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
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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…
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Masala Dosa
A paper-thin, tangy fermented crêpe wrapped around spiced potato, with coconut chutney and sambar alongside. South…
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Tamagoyaki
Sweet rolled omelette built from a dozen thin layers, cooked in a rectangular pan and rolled onto itself again and…
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Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…
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Menemen
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
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Greek Yoghurt with Honey and Walnuts
Thick strained yoghurt with thyme honey poured over and toasted walnuts on top. Three ingredients, and the quality…
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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…
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Berry Smoothie Bowl
Frozen berries and banana blended with almost no liquid into something thick enough to eat with a spoon, then…
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Ackee and Saltfish
Jamaica's national dish: ackee, a fruit whose cooked flesh looks and behaves remarkably like scrambled egg, sautéed…
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Manakish Za'atar
Flatbread spread with za'atar mixed into olive oil and baked until the edges crisp. Bought hot from the bakery for…
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Loco Moco
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
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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…
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Merguez Shakshuka
Merguez browned first, then eggs poached in a tomato and pepper sauce built on harissa and caraway. Hotter and…
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Blini with Soured Cream
Small yeasted buckwheat pancakes, thicker and more savoury than a crêpe, served warm with soured cream and whatever…
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Egg Hoppers
Fermented rice and coconut batter swirled up the sides of a small bowl-shaped pan, with an egg cracked into the…
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Msemen
Semolina dough stretched translucent, brushed with oil and semolina, folded into square layers and fried until it…
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Trinidadian Doubles
Two pieces of soft fried bara sandwiching curried chickpeas, with tamarind, cucumber chutney and pepper sauce…
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Boxty
Half raw grated potato, half mash, bound with flour and buttermilk and fried into pancakes with crisp edges and a…
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Cottage Cheese Protein Pancakes
Pancakes bound with cottage cheese and eggs rather than mostly flour, sweetened by nothing but a ripe banana, and…
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Banana Oat Pancakes
Pancakes made from oats, eggs and a very ripe banana, with no sugar, syrup or flour — soft in the middle and…
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Savoury Cottage Cheese Bowl
Cottage cheese with tomato, cucumber, olive oil and plenty of black pepper — eight minutes, no cooking, and 26 g of…
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Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins
Baked egg muffins bound with cottage cheese and packed with spinach and cheddar — six to a batch, 42 g of protein a…
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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 —…
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Baked Eggs with Spinach and Feta
Eggs baked into a bed of garlicky spinach with feta crumbled over, straight from oven to table in the pan — 34 g of…
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Chocolate Chip Muffins
Bakery-height domes, a crumb that tears rather than crumbles, and chocolate the whole way through instead of sunk in…
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Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
The American coffee cake, which contains no coffee: a sour cream crumb cake with a thick cinnamon streusel on top…
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Vegetable Frittata
Eggs started on the hob and finished under a grill, with the vegetables cooked properly first so they do not water…
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Dutch Baby Pancake
A single enormous pancake that climbs the sides of a screaming-hot skillet in the oven and collapses within a minute…
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Kedgeree
Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…
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Migas Extremeñas
Stale bread torn small, dampened, and fried slowly in garlic oil with chorizo and peppers until every piece is crisp…
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Eggs Florentine
Poached eggs on wilted spinach and a toasted muffin under blender hollandaise. The hollandaise takes ninety seconds…
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Bircher Muesli
Oats soaked overnight in apple juice and yoghurt, with grated apple folded through in the morning. The original…
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Green Shakshuka
The green version: eggs baked into a pan of wilted greens, leek and herbs rather than tomato, with feta and a lemony…
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Bacon and Cheddar Egg Bites
Cooked in a bain-marie so they set like custard rather than scrambling into rubber. Twelve of them, and they reheat…
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Baked Avocado Eggs
An egg baked in the hollow of an avocado half, which sounds like a magazine idea and works because of one…
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Cachapas
Sweetcorn blitzed to a batter and griddled into thick, sweet pancakes, folded around a slab of soft white cheese…
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Lablabi
Chickpeas in a cumin and garlic broth poured over torn stale bread, with a raw egg cracked in and stirred through…
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Bsissa
Roasted barley and chickpea flour with fennel and coriander seed, stirred into oil and water or milk. Eaten for…
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Ftair
Rings of yeasted dough fried until they blister and puffed hollow, then dusted with sugar. Breakfast, and best eaten…
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Cockles and Laverbread
Cockles and seaweed fried in bacon fat and rolled in oatmeal. The Gower peninsula breakfast, and the best argument…
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Devilled Kidneys
Lamb's kidneys in a mustard, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce, on toast, at breakfast. A Victorian sideboard dish…
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Grilled Kippers
A split smoked herring under the grill with butter and lemon. Fifteen minutes including the toast, and better than…
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Bubble and Squeak
Cold mash and cold greens pressed into a pan and fried until a crust forms on both sides. Named for the noise it…
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Laverbread with Bacon
Welsh seaweed fried in bacon fat with oatmeal, on toast. Called Welshman's caviar, which sounds like a joke until…
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Jianbing
A thin mung bean crepe with an egg cracked onto it, folded around a sheet of fried cracker, hoisin and coriander…
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Youtiao
Long twisted dough sticks fried until they puff hollow, torn and dipped in hot soy milk. The Chinese breakfast…
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Paneer Bhurji
Crumbled paneer scrambled with onion, tomato and green chilli. Fifteen minutes, and the standard Indian answer to a…
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Egg Bhurji
Indian scrambled eggs with onion, tomato and green chilli, cooked hard and fast. Fifteen minutes, two pans of…
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Poha
Flattened rice rinsed, tossed with turmeric, mustard seed and peanuts, and eaten within ten minutes. Central India's…
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Upma
Semolina roasted and steamed with mustard seed, curry leaf and vegetables. Ready in twenty-five minutes and the…
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Medu Vada
Doughnut-shaped urad dal fritters, crisp outside and airy in. The hardest simple thing in a south Indian kitchen.
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Uttapam
A thick dosa batter poured small and pressed with onion, tomato and chilli. Softer than a dosa and easier to get…
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Fluffy Pancakes
Thick American pancakes that rise in the pan. Twenty-five minutes, and the batter must be lumpy.
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Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Eggs cooked slowly with butter until they set in soft curds. Eleven minutes and there is nothing else in them.
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Banana Pancakes
Ripe banana mashed into pancake batter, which makes them sweeter and denser than plain ones. Twenty-five minutes.
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Placki Ziemniaczane
Grated potato pancakes fried crisp at the edges and soft in the middle. Forty minutes, and the squeezing is the…
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Syrniki
Curd cheese pancakes, crisp outside and almost custardy in the middle, eaten with soured cream and jam.
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Baleadas
A thick flour tortilla folded over refried beans, cream and crumbled cheese. Honduras's breakfast, and thirty minutes.
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Fattet Hummus
Crisp torn bread under warm chickpeas under garlicky yoghurt, finished with browned butter and pine nuts. Assembled…
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Khai Jiao
A Thai omelette dropped into deep hot oil so it puffs and crisps at the edges. Thirteen minutes, and it goes on rice.
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Bánh Cuốn
Rice batter steamed into sheets thinner than paper, rolled around pork and wood ear, with fried shallots over.
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Bombay Sandwich
Green chutney, sliced vegetables and butter between white bread, pressed on a griddle and buried in sev. Twenty-five…
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Cheesy Grits
Coarse cornmeal cooked slowly in milk and stock until creamy, finished with butter and cheese. Thirty minutes.
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Corned Beef Hash
Corned beef and potato pressed into a hot pan and left alone until a crust forms. Forty minutes and one flip.
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Tattie Scones
Mashed potato and flour rolled thin, cut into triangles and cooked on a dry griddle. Part of a Scottish fry-up.
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Jachnun
Buttered dough stretched thin, rolled up and baked overnight until it turns dark and sweet. Yemenite Jewish Saturday…
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