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

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

B

Breakfast cereal with milk and raspberries

• Bacon ^[6][7]
• Bacon sandwich
• Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich ^[8]
• 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, and it is typically combined with rice flour.^[12]
• Bear claw (pastry) ^[13]
• Black Pudding
• Bhakri ^[14]
• Bhatoora ^[15]
• 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.
• Biscuits and gravy ^[17]
• 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 (food) ^[25] – A breakfast food in New Orleans.^[26]
• Cereal bar ^[18]
• Cereal germ ^[27]
• Changua ^[28]
• Cheese toast
• Chilaquiles ^[29]
• Chocolate sandwich
• Chicken curry
• Chwee kueh ^[30]
• Cinnamon roll ^[31][32]
• Collops ^[33]
• Congee ^[34]
• Creamed eggs on toast ^[35]
• Crêpe ^[36]
• Croissan'Wich ^[37]
• Croissant ^[38]
• Cream pie

D

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

• David Eyre's pancake ^[39]
• Devilled kidneys ^[40]
• Diyabath – a traditional Sri Lankan indigenous breakfast item.
• Djevrek
• Doubles (food) ^[41]
• Doughnut ^[42]
• Dutch baby pancake ^[43]

E

Eggs Benedict

• Egg (food) ^[44]
• Egg in the basket ^[45]
• Egg sandwich ^[46]
• Eggo ^[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 half a tomato

• French toast ^[54]
• Fried bread ^[55]
• Fried egg ^[56]
• Fruit ^[18]
• Fruit pudding ^[57]
• Full breakfast ^[58]

G

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

• Griddle scone ^[59]
• Goetta ^[60]
• Gogli ^[61]
• Grillades ^[62]
• Grits ^[63]

H

Hash with a coddled egg atop it

• Halwa poori ^[64]
• Ham ^[56]
• Hash (food) ^[56]
• Hash browns ^[65]
• Home fries ^[66]
• Honey
• Hot dry noodles – a typical breakfast food in Wuhan, China
• Hoppers ^[67]
• 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]

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 (milk product) ^[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 (food) ^[88]
• Msemen
• Mie goreng ^[89]
• Migas ^[90]
• Milk toast ^[91]
• Mohinga – a well-known breakfast food in Burma.^[92]
• Monkey bread ^[93]
• 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 ^[56]
• 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 ^[56]
• Pandebono – a popular breakfast food in Colombia.^[105]
• Pandesal – A common Philippine breakfast bread.^[106]
• Pastry ^[107]
• Peanut butter ^[108]
• Perico (dish) ^[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]
• Popcorn cereal – consumed by Americans in the 1800s, this is popcorn with milk and a sweetener.^[114]
• Pop-Tarts ^[115]
• Popover ^[116]
• Porridge ^[117]
• Portuguese sweet bread ^[118]
• Potato cake ^[119]
• Potato scone ^[120]
• Protein bar ^[121]
• Puttu ^[122]
• Pudding-Irish

Q

• Quark
• Quesadilla
• Quiche

R

• Raisin bread ^[123][124]
• 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]
• Rashers -Irish

S

Scrambled eggs with a side of bacon

Breakfast strata

• Sabaayad ^[127]
• Salmon (food) ^[128]
• Salt cod ^[3]
• Sausage ^[129]
• Sausage gravy ^[130]
• Scone ^[131]
• Scrambled eggs ^[7]
• Scrapple ^[132]
• Shrimp (food)
• 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 (food) ^[137]
• String Hoppers or Indiappa ^[138]
• Strudel ^[139][140]
• Syrniki ^[141]

T

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

Upma

• Tamago kake gohan – a popular Japanese breakfast food consisting of cooked rice topped or mixed with raw egg, and optionally, soy sauce.
• Texas toast ^[142]
• Throdkin ^[143]
• Tian mo – a traditional breakfast soup from the city of Jinan in the Shandong province of China. The soup is made of millet power, peanuts, vermicelli, cowpea, spiced tofu (or shredded tofu skin), and spinach.^[144]
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• Tomato omelette ^{[128][145][146]}
• Tongue ^[147]
• Tongue toast ^[148]
• Touton ^[149]

U

• Upma ^[150]

V

• Viennoiserie ^[151]

W

Waffles with strawberries

• Waffle ^[56][152]
• Water biscuit ^[153]
• Weisswurst ^[154]
• Wrap roti ^[155] – In Thailand, roti is often eaten for breakfast dipped in sauces.^[156]

Y

• Yogurt ^[18][157]
• Youtiao ^[158]

See also

• History of breakfast
• List of breakfast beverages
• List of breakfast cereals
• List of breakfast topics
• List of brunch foods

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.