List of breakfast foods
This is a list of notable breakfast foods, consisting of foods that are commonly consumed at breakfast. 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. Among English speakers, "breakfast" can be used to refer to this meal or to refer to a meal composed of traditional breakfast foods served at any time of day. Breakfast foods are prepared with a multitude of ingredients, including oats, wheat, maize, barley, noodles, starches, eggs, meats, and other foods.
Breakfast foods
A
- Ackee and saltfish – the national dish of Jamaica
- Aloo paratha
- Anadama bread
- Apple dumpling
- Arepa
B
- Bacon
- Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich
- Bacon and eggs
- Bacon sandwich
- Bagel
- Bagel and cream cheese
- Baked beans
- Banana in Jamaican cuisine, boiled green bananas are served as a breakfast side dish.
- Banana bread
- Barley honey a Japanese product prepared with barley starch, typically combined with rice flour
- Bear claw a pastry
- Bhakri
- Bhatoora fluffy deep-fried leavened bread from northern India
- Bialy
- -fluffy deep-fried leavened bread from Northern India Biscuits and gravy
- Bizcocho
- Boiled egg
- Boudin
- Bran flakes
- Breadfruit
- Breakfast burrito
- Breakfast cereal
- Breakfast roll
- Breakfast sandwich
- Breakfast sausage
- Breakfast taco
- Brown bread
- Brunch Bar
- 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
- cereal
- Cereal bar
- Cereal germ
- Changua
- Chicken and waffles
- Chilaquiles
- Chipped beef on toast
- Chocolate gravy
- Chouriço
- Chwee kueh
- Cinnamon roll
- Coffee cake
- Collops
- Conecuh sausage, waffle-wrapped sausage on a stick invented in Alabama
- Congee
- Cottage cheese
- Creamed eggs on toast
- Crêpe
- Cretons
- Croissant
- Crumpet
- Cuban bread
D
- David Eyre's pancake
- Devilled kidneys
- Dim sum
- Doughnut or Donut
- Doubles
- Dutch baby pancake
E
- Egg
- Egg in the basket
- Egg sandwich
- Eggs and brains
- Eggs Beauregard
- Eggs Benedict
- Egg bhurji
- Eggs bourguignon
- Eggo cereal
- Eggs Neptune
- Eggs Sardou
- Enchilada
- Energy bar
- English muffin
F
- Facturas
- Fatoot samneh
- French toast
- Fried bread
- 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
- Fried egg
- Frittata
- Frühschoppen
- Fruit pudding
- Frybread
- Full breakfast
G
- Goetta
- Gogli
- Griddle scone
- Grillades
- Grits
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
- Honey Puffs
- Huevos divorciados 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.
- Huevos motuleños
- Huevos pericos
- Huevos rancheros
I
- Idli – consumed as a breakfast food in Southern India
- Instant breakfast
- Irish soda bread
J
- Jianbing
- Jianbing guozi
- Johnnycake
K
- Katogo
- Kedgeree
- Khaman
- Kiribath
- Kix
- Kokosbrood
- Kolache
- Kringle
- Kulcha a breakfast staple in Pakistan
- Kulich
L
- Leben
- Lefse
- Linguiça
- Livermush
- Loco moco
- Lox a fillet of brined salmon
M
- Malasadas
- Manakish Levantine dish similar to pizza and often eaten at breakfast.
- Mandoca usually served at breakfast in Venezuela
- Maple syrup
- Mas huni a breakfast dish in the Maldives.
- Matzah brei a Ashkenazi Passover breakfast
- Maypo
- McGriddles
- McMuffin
- Meeshay
- Menemen
- Mie goreng
- Migas
- Milk toast
- Mohinga a breakfast food in Burma
- Monkey bread
- Msemen – a common breakfast dish in Morocco
- Muesli
- Muffin
- Mugoyo
N
- Nasi goreng a breakfast dish in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
- Nasi lemak a breakfast dish in Malaysia and Singapore
- Nattō - a Japanese breakfast dish
O
- Oatmeal
- Omelette
- Ontbijtkoek
- Orange juice
- Ox-tongue pastry
- Oysters Rockefeller
P
- Pain au chocolat
- Pain aux raisins
- Palm syrup
- Palmier
- Pan de yuca served for breakfast or with tea in Bolivia
- Pancake
- Pandebono a breakfast food in Colombia
- Pandesal a common Philippine breakfast bread
- Pastry
- Paczki
- Peanut butter
- Pebete
- Pear
- Pekmez
- Perico
- Pesarattu a breakfast crepe from Andhra Pradesh, India made with green gram
- Phitti a hunza bread that is a common breakfast food
- Pisca Andina
- Poached egg
- Pop-Tarts
- Popcorn cereal popcorn with milk and a sweetener; consumed by Americans in the 1800s
- Popover
- Pork brains and eggs
- Pork roll 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. 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
- Quiche
- Quick bread
R
- Raisin bran
- Raisin bread
- Reese's Puffs
- Reindeer meat
- Rolled oats
- Roti canai
- Roti prata
- Run down a traditional Jamaican breakfast dish prepared with salt mackerel, coconut milk, tomato and various vegetable and spices
S
- Sabaayad
- Salmon
- Salt cod
- Satti
- Sausage
- Sausage gravy
- Scone
- Scrambled eggs
- Scrapple
- Shaobing
- Shengjian mantou
- Shrimp and grits
- Silog
- Simit a Turkish snack bread and breakfast food
- Sizzlean
- Slinger a breakfast food that originated in St. Louis, Missouri
- Smoothie
- Soft-boiled eggs
- Soufflé
- Sopapillas
- Stamp and Go
- Strata
- Strudel
- Suhur
- Syrniki
T
- Tamago kake gohan a Japanese breakfast food consisting of cooked rice topped or mixed with raw egg, and optionally, soy sauce
- Taylor ham
- Teacake
- Texas toast
- Throdkin
- 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, and spinach
- Toast
- Toaster Strudels
- Tomato omelette
- Tongue
- Tongue toast
- Touton
- Tripe
U
- Upma
V
- Viennoiserie
W
- Waffle
- Water biscuit
- Weisswurst
- Wrap roti in Thailand, roti is often eaten for breakfast dipped in sauces.
Y
- Yogurt
- Youtiao
Z
- Zucchini bread