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Eggs recipes

Breakfasts, custards, batters and the dishes built entirely on them. 1766 recipes on the site call for eggs.

Eggs bind, raise and enrich far more of the site than the egg dishes themselves. Where a recipe serves eggs raw or only lightly cooked, the ingredient list asks for pasteurised eggs.

Eggs is in 1,766 recipes from 83 cuisines, among them 476 bakes, 414 dinners, 286 desserts and 200 breakfasts. The cuisines that use it most here are American (555), British (210), Italian (144) and French (129). Of these, 357 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Chocolate Mug Cake (5 min), Pisco Sour (5 min) and Snowball Cocktail (5 min). For 809, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 865 easy, 767 medium and 134 hard.

As written, 1,109 are vegetarian, 252 gluten-free and 259 dairy-free. Another 50 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

All 5555 recipes

Eggs recipes — all 1766 recipes

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
20m
Cook
12m
Serves
24
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Baking

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Brown butter, a 24-hour rest and two sizes of chocolate produce cookies with crisp edges, a chewy middle and pools…

25–73 hr · Easy
Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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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…

25 min · Easy
Classic Tiramisu
ItalianEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
12m
Serves
8
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Desserts

Classic Tiramisu

The Venetian classic, built on a properly cooked zabaglione so it sets firm without gelatine and carries no raw-egg…

6.5 hr · Medium
Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
AmericanFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
16
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Desserts

Fudgy Cocoa Brownies

Cocoa-based brownies with a paper-thin crackly top and a dense, fudgy middle. No chocolate to melt, no mixer needed…

3.5 hr · Easy
One-Bowl Banana Bread
AmericanFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
60m
Serves
10
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Baking

One-Bowl Banana Bread

One bowl, one whisk, and the darkest bananas you can find. Browning the butter first adds a nutty depth that turns…

2.5 hr · Easy
Spaghetti Carbonara
ItalianEditor’s Pick
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Spaghetti Carbonara

Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…

30 min · Medium
Pad Thai
ThaiEditor’s Pick
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Pad Thai

The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet — a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palm…

35 min · Medium
New York Cheesecake
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
75m
Serves
12
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Desserts

New York Cheesecake

Dense, tall and creamy with a faint tang, on a buttery biscuit base. The water bath and a slow cool in the…

11 hr+ · Medium
German Pork Schnitzel
GermanFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Dinner

German Pork Schnitzel

Pork loin beaten thin, breadcrumbed and fried in a shallow pool of butter and oil so the coating puffs away from the…

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

Shakshuka

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

35 min · Easy
Tonkotsu Ramen
JapaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
45m
Cook
480m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Tonkotsu Ramen

The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…

13 hr+ · Hard
Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
40m
Cook
25m
Serves
12
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Baking

Overnight Cinnamon Rolls

Soft, tall rolls made with a tangzhong starter that keeps them pillowy for days, filled with cinnamon-butter and…

11–12 hr+ · Medium
Deep-Dish Apple Pie
American
Prep
45m
Cook
60m
Serves
8
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Desserts

Deep-Dish Apple Pie

A deep-dish pie with a properly crisp bottom crust and apples that hold their shape. Pre-cooking the filling is the…

8 hr+ · Medium
Egg Fried Rice
ChineseFeatured
Prep
10m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Egg Fried Rice

The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from the…

20 min · Easy
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
AmericanFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
13m
Serves
4
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Desserts

Molten Chocolate Lava Cake

Individual chocolate cakes with a liquid centre, from oven to table in twenty minutes. The whole trick is pulling…

28 min · Easy
Lasagna Bolognese
ItalianEditor’s Pick
Prep
45m
Cook
241m
Serves
8
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Dinner

Lasagna Bolognese

A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a ragù simmered for two and a half to three hours, a…

5–5.5 hr · Hard
Orange Chicken
ChineseFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Orange Chicken

The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…

65 min · Medium
Crème Brûlée
FrenchEditor’s Pick
Prep
20m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Desserts

Crème Brûlée

A vanilla custard so smooth it barely holds a spoon, under a sheet of caramel thin enough to crack with a tap. The…

5.5 hr+ · Medium
Caesar Salad
American
Prep
20m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Caesar Salad

The original Tijuana Caesar: whole romaine leaves, a dressing built on egg yolk, anchovy and garlic, and croutons…

30 min · Easy
Chicken Katsu Curry
JapaneseFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Katsu Curry

Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…

55 min · Medium
Tres Leches Cake
MexicanFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
35m
Serves
12
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Desserts

Tres Leches Cake

A light sponge soaked in three milks until it is completely saturated yet somehow not soggy, topped with softly…

5 hr+ · Easy
Brioche French Toast
American
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

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
Kung Pao Chicken
ChineseFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Kung Pao Chicken

Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…

55 min · Medium
Three-Egg Omelette
American
Prep
5m
Cook
5m
Serves
1
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Breakfast

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
Chicken Parmigiana
ItalianFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Parmigiana

Shatteringly crisp breaded cutlets under a thin blanket of sauce and mozzarella, grilled just long enough to melt…

55 min · Medium
Pastéis de Nata
PortugueseEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
25m
Serves
12
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Desserts

Pastéis de Nata

Lisbon's custard tarts: laminated pastry shells filled with a loose cinnamon custard and blasted in a furnace-hot…

55 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
Butter Croissants
FrenchEditor’s Pick
Prep
180m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Baking

Butter Croissants

Genuinely laminated croissants with a honeycomb interior and a shattering shell — 27 layers of butter folded into…

15–16 hr · Hard
Chicken Pot Pie
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
65m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…

2.5–3 hr+ · Medium
Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins
American
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
12
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Baking

Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins

Tall domed muffins with a crunchy sugar top and berries that stay suspended rather than sinking. The high-then-low…

55 min · Easy
Bibimbap
KoreanFeatured
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Bibimbap

A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…

75 min · Medium
Miso Ramen
JapaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
40m
Cook
90m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Miso Ramen

Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…

2 hr · Hard
Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)
JapaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
40m
Cook
35m
Serves
10
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Bread

Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)

Shokupan: the pillowy square loaf found in every Japanese bakery, built on a cooked flour paste that lets the dough…

3–4 hr+ · Medium
Cinnamon Churros
Mexican
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Desserts

Cinnamon Churros

Ridged, crackling churros dusted in cinnamon sugar with a pot of dark chocolate for dipping. The dough is a simple…

40 min · Medium
Vanilla Cupcakes
American
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
12
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Baking

Vanilla Cupcakes

Light vanilla cupcakes with a flat-ish top for frosting, made by the reverse-creaming method that coats the flour in…

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

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
Shepherd's Pie
British
Prep
25m
Cook
90m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Shepherd's Pie

Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…

2–2.5 hr · Easy
Red Velvet Cake
American
Prep
30m
Cook
30m
Serves
12
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Desserts

Red Velvet Cake

A tender buttermilk cake with a whisper of cocoa, a tang from vinegar and buttermilk, and a proper cream cheese…

3.5 hr · Medium
General Tso's Chicken
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

General Tso's Chicken

The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…

60 min · Medium
Crisp Belgian-Style Waffles
American
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

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
Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts
AmericanFeatured
Prep
40m
Cook
15m
Serves
12
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Baking

Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts

Yeasted doughnuts fried until they wear a pale band around the middle, then rolled straight into cinnamon sugar…

3–3.5 hr · Medium
Spiced Carrot Cake
American
Prep
25m
Cook
40m
Serves
12
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Desserts

Spiced Carrot Cake

A properly spiced carrot cake, moist from oil and crushed pineapple, with walnuts for bite and a tangy cream cheese…

110 min+ · Easy
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings
BritishEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
90m
Serves
6
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Holiday Specials

Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings

A rib of beef roasted to a rosy centre, rested properly, and carved thick, with Yorkshire puddings risen tall in…

2.5 hr · Medium
Adjaruli Khachapuri
GeorgianFeatured
Prep
90m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Bread

Adjaruli Khachapuri

A boat of bread filled with molten cheese, with an egg yolk and a knob of butter dropped in at the end and stirred…

3 hr · Medium
Nasi Lemak
MalaysianFeatured
Prep
30m
Cook
40m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Nasi Lemak

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

70 min · Medium
Classic Pumpkin Pie
American
Prep
25m
Cook
75m
Serves
8
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Holiday Specials

Classic Pumpkin Pie

A silky custard pie with proper spice and a blind-baked base that stays crisp. Cooking the purée down first…

7–7.5 hr · Easy
Swedish Meatballs
Swedish
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Swedish Meatballs

Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…

75 min · Easy
Vanilla Gelato
Italian
Prep
25m
Cook
15m
Serves
8
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Desserts

Vanilla Gelato

Proper Italian gelato: less fat, less air and served warmer than ice cream, which is why it tastes so much more…

10–11 hr · Medium

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