List of breakfast foods
This is a list of notable breakfast foods from A to Z. Breakfast is the meal taken after rising from a night's sleep, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking a day's work. 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 and much more. Breakfast foods are prepared with a multitude of ingredients, including oats, wheat, maize, barley, noodles, starches, eggs, and meats.
Breakfast foods
A
- Ackee and saltfish – national dish of Jamaica
B
- Banana in Jamaican cuisine, boiled green bananas are served as a breakfast side dish.
- Banana bread
- Barley honeya Japanese product prepared with barley starch, typically combined with rice flour
- Bhaturefluffy deep-fried leavened bread from northern India
- Biscuits and gravy
- Bubur kacang hijau – a common porridge and typical breakfast dish in Indonesia, made from mung beans, coconut milk and sugar.
C
- Calas a breakfast food in New Orleans
- Coffee cake
- Conecuh sausage, waffle-wrapped sausage on a stick invented in Alabama
- Cottage cheese
- Creamed eggs on toast
- Crêpe
- Cretons
- Croissant
- Crumpet
- Cuban bread
D
*E
- Egg muffins - Eggs and vegetables or meat baked in a muffin tin
F
- Foul – An Egyptian and Middle Eastern dish made with cooked fava beans flavored with lemon juice, garlic and served with olive oil, chopped parsley & tomatoes.
- Fried cheese – served as a breakfast dish in Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey
- Fried chicken – Consumed as a breakfast food by some in Perth, Western Australia
G
*H
- Halwa poori
- Ham
- Ham and eggs – has been described as a staple of "an old-fashioned American breakfast" and of the traditional English breakfast
- Hamburger
- Hangtown Fry
- Hash
- Hash browns
- Home fries
- Huevos divorciadosa 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.
- Huevos motuleños
- Huevos pericos
- Huevos rancheros
I
- Idli – consumed as a breakfast food in Southern India
- Instant breakfast
- Irish soda bread
J
*K
*L
- Lox a fillet of brined salmon
M
- Malasadas
- ManakishLevantine dish similar to pizza and often eaten at breakfast.
- Mandocausually served at breakfast in Venezuela
- Maple syrup
- Mas hunia breakfast dish in the Maldives.
- Matzah breian Ashkenazi Passover breakfast
- Maypo
- McGriddles
- McMuffin
- Meeshay
- Menemen
- Mie goreng
- Migas
- Milk toast
- Milo
- Misal pav - a breakfast dish in Maharashtra
- Mohingaa breakfast food in Burma
- Monkey bread
- Msemen – a common breakfast dish in Morocco
- Muesli
- Muffin
- Mugoyo
N
- Nasi gorenga breakfast dish in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
- Nasi lemaka breakfast dish in Malaysia and Singapore
- Nattōa Japanese breakfast dish
O
P
- Pain au chocolat
- Pain aux raisins
- Palm syrup
- Palmier
- Pan de yucaserved for breakfast or with tea in Bolivia
- Pancake
- Pandebonoa breakfast food in Colombia
- Pandesala common Philippine breakfast bread
- Pastry
- Paczki
- Peanut butter
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Pebete
- Pear
- Pekmez
- Perico
- Pesarattua breakfast crepe from Andhra Pradesh, India made with green gram
- Phittia hunza bread that is a common breakfast food
- Pisca Andina
- Poached egg
- Poha
- Pop-Tarts
- Popcorn cerealpopcorn with milk and a sweetener; consumed by Americans in the 1800s
- Popover
- Pork brains and eggs
- Pork rolla 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. In North Jersey all pork roll may be referred to by the brand "Taylor Ham".
- Porridge
- Portuguese sweet bread
- Potato cake
- Potato pancake
- Potato scone
- Potatoes O'Brien
- Protein bar
- Pumpkin bread
- Puttu
Q
R
- Raisin bran
- Raisin bread
- Reindeer meat
- Rice
- Rolled oats
- Roti canai
- Roti prata
- Run downa traditional Jamaican breakfast dish prepared with salt mackerel, coconut milk, tomato and various vegetable and spices
S
- Sabudana Khichdi - common Indian breakfast eaten during Navaratri
- Simit a Turkish snack bread and breakfast food
- Slinger a breakfast food that originated in St. Louis, Missouri
- Soft-boiled eggs
T
- Tacos
- Tamago kake gohana Japanese breakfast food consisting of cooked rice topped or mixed with raw egg, and optionally, soy sauce
- TapsilogA Filipino dish consisting in marinated beef cuts, egg and fried rice. Is usually accompanied by slices of onions, tomatoes and cucumbers.
- Taylor ham
- Teacake
- Texas toast
- Throdkin
- Tian moa traditional breakfast soup from the city of Jinan in the Shandong province of China; made of millet powder, peanuts, vermicelli, cowpea, spiced tofu, and spinach
- Toast
- Toaster Strudels
- Tomato omelette
- Tongue
- Tongue toast
- Touton
- Tripe