List of breakfast foods

This is a list of breakfast foods. Breakfast is the first meal taken after rising from a night's sleep, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking the day's work.^[1] Among English speakers, "breakfast" can be used to refer to this meal or to refer to a meal composed of traditional breakfast foods (such as eggs, oatmeal and sausage) served at any time of day. Breakfast foods are prepared with a multitude of ingredients, including oats,^[2] wheat,^[2] maize,^[2] barley,^[2] noodles,^[2] starches,^[2] eggs, meats and other foodstuffs.

Breakfast foods

A

Aloo paratha-served as a breakfast dish in India

• Ackee ^[3]
• Almojábana
• Aloo paratha ^[4]
• Arepa ^[5]

B

Breakfast cereal with milk and raspberries

• Bacon ^[6][7]
• Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich ^[8]
• Bacon sandwich
• Bagel ^[9]
• Baked beans ^[10][11]
• Banana – In Jamaican cuisine, boiled green bananas are served as a breakfast side dish.^[3]
• Barley honey – a Japanese product prepared with barley starch, typically combined with rice flour^[12]
• Bear claw  – ^[13]a pastry
• Bhakri ^[14]
• Bhatoora  – ^[15] fluffy deep-fried leavened bread from northern India
• Bialy ^[16]
• Bing – bread; an example is Jian bing, a fried egg pancake similar to crepes that is a popular breakfast street food in China
• 

  Bhatoora-fluffy deep-fried leavened bread from Northern India
  Biscuits and gravy ^[17]
• Black pudding
• Blintzes
• Boiled egg ^[18]
• Breadfruit ^[3]
• Breakfast burrito ^[19]
• Breakfast cereal
• Breakfast roll ^[20][21]
• Breakfast sandwich ^[22]
• Breakfast sausage ^[23]
• Breakfast taco ^[24]
• Brown Bobby
• Bublik

C

An unrolled crêpe with whipped cream and strawberry sauce

• Calas ^[25] – a breakfast food in New Orleans^[26]
• Cereal bar ^[18]
• Cereal germ ^[27]
• Changua ^[28]
• Cheese toast
• Chicken curry
• Chilaquiles ^[29]
• Chocolate sandwich
• Chorizo
• Chwee kueh ^[30]
• Cinnamon roll ^[31][32]

Dosa  – served as a breakfast dish in India

• Collops ^[33]
• Congee ^[34]
• Cream pie
• Creamed eggs on toast ^[35]
• Crêpe ^[36]
• Cretons^[37]
• Croissant ^[38]
• Croissan'Wich ^[39]

D

Diyabath (left), a traditional Sri Lankan indigenous breakfast item

• David Eyre's pancake ^[40]
• Devilled kidneys ^[41]
• Diyabath – a traditional Sri Lankan indigenous breakfast item
• Djevrek
• Dosa
• Doubles ^[42]
• Doughnut ^[43]
• Dutch baby pancake ^[44]

E

Eggs Benedict

• Egg ^[45]
• Egg in the basket ^[46]
• Egg sandwich ^[47]
• Eggs and brains ^[48]
• Eggs Benedict ^[49]
• Eggs Neptune ^[50]
• Energy bar ^[51][52]
• English muffin ^[53]

F

A full English breakfast with fried egg, sausage, white and black pudding, bacon, mushrooms, baked beans, hash browns, toast, and tomato

• French toast ^[54]
• Fried bread ^[55]
• Fried cheese – served as a breakfast dish in Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey^[56]
• Fried egg ^[57]
• Fruit
• Fruit pudding ^[58]
• Full breakfast ^[59]

G

Grillades and grits topped with scallions at a restaurant in New Orleans

• Goetta ^[60]
• Gogli ^[61]
• Griddle scone ^[62]
• Grillades ^[63]
• Grits ^[64]

H

Hash with a coddled egg atop it

• Halwa poori ^[65]
• Ham ^[57]
• Ham and eggs
• Hash ^[57]
• Hash browns ^[66]
• Home fries ^[67]
• Honey
• Hoppers  – thin fried pancake made in a curved frying-pan. It is made from rice flour, coconut milk and salt. It is eaten with lunumiris, katta-sambol or an egg. It can be made into a dessert by adding honey to the mixture.
• Hot dry noodles – a typical breakfast food in Wuhan, China
• Huevos a la mexicana
• Huevos divorciados ^[68] – a Mexican breakfast dish that consists of two fried eggs, chilaquiles and salsa. Typically, one egg is covered in salsa roja, while the other is covered in salsa verde, giving them distinct and complementary flavors.^[69]
• Huevos motuleños ^[70][71]
• Huevos rancheros ^[72]

I

• Idli ^[15]
• Indian omelette
• Instant breakfast ^[73]

Idli with sambar and coconut chutney

J

• Johnnycake ^[3]

K

Kulcha with chole (chickpeas, in center), from India

• Kedgeree ^[74][75]
• Khabees
• Khaman ^[15]
• Kiribath ^[76]
• Kolache ^[77]
• Kulcha – a breakfast staple in Pakistan^[78]
• Kulich ^[79]

L

• Leben ^[80]
• Lox ^[81] — a fillet of brined salmon

M

A Turkish breakfast, with menemen (left)

• Mandoca – usually served at breakfast in Venezuela^[82]
• Maple syrup ^[83]
• Mas huni – a breakfast dish in the Maldives.^[84]
• Matzah brei – a popular Ashkenazi Passover breakfast^[85]
• McMuffin ^[86]
• Mekitsa – a Bulgarian deep-fried breakfast pastry^[87]
• Menemen ^[88]
• Mie goreng ^[89]
• Migas ^[90]
• Milk toast ^[91]
• Mohinga – a well-known breakfast food in Burma^[92]
• Monkey bread ^[93]
• Msemen
• Muesli ^[94]
• Muffin ^[3]

N

Nasi lemak (center), with fish cake, ikan bilis, egg, and buah keluak chicken

• Nasi goreng – a popular breakfast dish in Indonesia^[95]
• Nasi lemak – a well-known breakfast dish in Malaysia^[96]
• Nihari – known in India as a breakfast curry

O

• Oatmeal ^[97]
• Omelette ^[57]
• Orange juice ^[98]
• Ox-tongue pastry ^[99]

P

Poached eggs sprinkled with matcha and salt, served on sourdough bread

Millet porridge

Roti john

• Pain au chocolat ^[100]
• Pain aux raisins ^[101]
• Palm syrup ^[102]
• Palmier ^[103]
• Pan de yuca – served for breakfast or with tea in Bolivia^[104]
• Pancake ^[57]
• Pandebono – a popular breakfast food in Colombia^[105]

Pesarattu is a special breakfast in Andhra Pradesh, India.

• Pandesal – a common Philippine breakfast bread^[106]
• Pastry ^[107]
• Peanut butter ^[108]
• Perico ^[109]
• Pesarattu – a popular breakfast crepe from Andhra Pradesh, India made with green gram^[110]
• Phitti – a hunza bread that is a common breakfast food^[111]
• Pisca Andina ^[112]
• Poached egg ^[113]
• Pop-Tarts ^[114]
• Popcorn cereal – popcorn with milk and a sweetener; consumed by Americans in the 1800s^[115]
• Popover ^[116]
• Pork roll  – also known as Taylor Ham; a staple of New Jersey since 1856. Today it is traditionally served with egg and cheese on a hard roll and topped with salt, pepper, and ketchup.
• Porridge ^[117]
• Portuguese sweet bread ^[118]
• Potato cake ^[119]
• Potato scone ^[120]
• Protein bar ^[121]
• Puttu ^[122]
• Pudding  – Irish
• Pulihora or puliyogare – tamarind rice

Q

• Quark
• Quesadilla
• Quiche

R

• Raisin bread ^[123][124]
• Rashers  – Irish
• Roti canai ^[125]
• Roti john – an omelette sandwich that is a popular Malay breakfast and snack item in Malaysia and Singapore
• Roti prata ^[126]
• Run down – a traditional Jamaican breakfast dish prepared with salt mackerel, coconut milk, tomato and various vegetable and spices^[3]

S

Semiya upma

Scrambled eggs

Breakfast strata

• Sabaayad ^[127]
• Salmon ^[128]
• Salt cod ^[3]
• Samiya upma
• Sausage ^[129]
• Sausage gravy ^[130]
• Scone ^[131]
• Scrambled eggs ^[7]
• Scrapple ^[132]
• Shrimp
• Shuangbaotai
• Simit – a popular Turkish snack bread and breakfast food ^[133]
• Siri paya
• Sizzlean ^[134]
• Slinger – a breakfast food that originated in St. Louis, Missouri^[135]
• Soy milk ^[136]
• Stamp and Go ^[3]
• Sticky bun
• Strata ^[137]
• String hoppers or indiappa  – like noodles, made from rice flour; eaten with a spicy dip and coconut sambol
• Strudel ^[138][139]
• Syrniki ^[140]

T

Tamago kake gohan (left), with tsukemono and miso soup

• Tamago kake gohan – a popular Japanese breakfast food consisting of cooked rice topped or mixed with raw egg, and optionally, soy sauce
• Texas toast ^[141]
• Throdkin ^[142]
• Tian mo – a traditional breakfast soup from the city of Jinan in the Shandong province of China; made of millet powder, peanuts, vermicelli, cowpea, spiced tofu (or shredded tofu skin), and spinach^[143]
• Toast ^[3]
• Tomato omelette ^{[128][144][145]}
• Tongue ^[146]
• Tongue toast ^[147]
• Touton ^[148]

U

• Upma ^[149]

V

Upma is a very common breakfast dish in South India.

• Viennoiserie ^[150]

W

Waffles with strawberries

• Waffle ^[57][151]
• Water biscuit ^[152]
• Weisswurst ^[153]
• Wrap roti ^[154] – In Thailand, roti is often eaten for breakfast dipped in sauces.^[155]

Y

• Yogurt ^[18][156]
• Youtiao ^[157]

See also

References

Bibliography

• Wiley, Harvey Washington (1917). Foods and their adulteration. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. pp. 267–269.

External links

• MacMillan, Amanda (June 1, 2013). "Top 20 Foods to Eat for Breakfast". ABC News.
• Thomson, Julie R. (Updated: October 1, 2013). "The Best Breakfast Foods, In Order". Huffington Post.
• AFP (April 3, 2012). "List of breakfast foods low in glycemic index; foods help you avoid blood sugar spikes". NY Daily News.
• (Ask Men) (April 8, 2012). "5 worst breakfast foods". Fox News.