Some gourmet breakfast foods

This is a list of notable breakfast foods. Breakfast is the 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), although it must be eaten in the morning. 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 foods.

Breakfast foods

A

Aloo paratha-served as a breakfast dish in India and Pakistan

• Ackee and saltfish – the national dish of Jamaica ^[3][4]
• Aloo paratha – Bread dish from Punjab, India^[5]
• Anadama bread^[6]
• Apple dumpling – Pastry-wrapped apple^[7]
• Arepa – Type of food made of ground maize dough, common in Colombia and Venezuela^[8]

B

Breakfast cereal with milk and raspberries

• Bacon – Type of salt-cured pork^[9][10]
• Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich – Breakfast sandwich^[11]
• Bacon and eggs – Substantial British and Irish breakfast
• Bacon sandwich – Sandwich of cooked bacon
• Bagel – Ring-shaped bread product^[12]
• Bagel and cream cheese – Common food pairing in American cuisine^[13]
• Baked beans – Cooked beans in sauce^[14][15]
• Banana – in Jamaican cuisine, boiled green bananas are served as a breakfast side dish.^[3]
• 

  Banana nut bread
  Banana bread^[16][17]
• Barley honey  – a Japanese product prepared with barley starch, typically combined with rice flour^[18]
• Bear claw – Pastry with almond paste filling^[19]
• Bhakri^[20]
• Bhatoora^[21]  – fluffy deep-fried leavened bread from northern India
• Bialy^[22]
• 

  Bhatoora-fluffy deep-fried leavened bread from Northern India
  Biscuits and gravy^[23]
• Bizcocho – Pastry
• Boiled egg – Egg dish^[24]
• Boudin – Types of sausage^[6]
• Bran flakes – Breakfast cereal
• Bread – Food made of flour and water
• Breadfruit – Edible fruit-bearing tree in the family Moraceae^[3]
• Breakfast burrito^[25][26]
• Breakfast cereal – Processed food made from grain^[27]
• Breakfast roll – Bread roll with elements of a traditional fried breakfast^[28][29]
• Breakfast sandwich – Sandwich with breakfast foods^[30]
• Breakfast sausage^[31][32]
• Breakfast taco^[33][6]
• Brown bread – Whole grain bread^[6]
• Brunch Bar

Brenntar with vanilla sauce

• Bubur kacang hijau – a common porridge and typical breakfast dish in Indonesia,^[34] made from mung beans, coconut milk and sugar.^[35]

C

An unrolled crêpe with whipped cream and strawberry sauce

• Calas^[36] – a breakfast food in New Orleans^[37]
• Cereal – Processed food made from grain
• Cereal bar^[24]
• Cereal germ – Reproductive part of a grass seed^[38]
• Changua^[39]
• Chicken and waffles
• Chilaquiles – Traditional Mexican dish^[40]
• Chipped beef on toast – Sliced dried beef product^[6]
• Chocolate gravy^[6]
• Chouriço – Pork sausage originating from the Iberian Peninsula^[6]
• Chwee kueh – Chinese steamed rice cake^[41]
• Cinnamon roll – Sweet pastry^[42][43]

Buttered crumpet

• Coffee cake

Dosa  – served as a breakfast dish in India

• Collops^[44]
• Conecuh sausage, waffle-wrapped sausage on a stick invented in Alabama^[6]
• Congee^[45]
• Cottage cheese
• Creamed eggs on toast^[46]
• Crêpe^[47]
• Cretons^[48]
• Croissant^[49]
• Crumpet
• Cuban bread^[6]

D

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

• David Eyre's pancake^[50]
• Devilled kidneys^[51]
• Dim sum – Chinese cuisine
• Dosa – Thin crepe originating from South India
• Doughnut or Donut – Sweet food made from deep fried dough^[52]
• Doubles – Sandwich originating in Trinidad and Tobago^[53]
• Dutch baby pancake – Baked American pancakes^[54]

E

Eggs Benedict

• Egg^[55]
• Egg in the basket – Egg fried in a hole in a slice of bread^[56]
• Egg sandwich – Sandwich with some kind of egg filling^[57]
• Eggs and brains – Breakfast dish of eggs and brains^[58]
• Eggs Beauregard – American egg dish
• Eggs Benedict – American breakfast or brunch dish^[59]
• Egg bhurji – Scrambled eggs dish in Indian subcontinent
• Eggs bourguignon (Oeufs en meurette)
• Eggo cereal – Breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's
• Eggs Neptune^[60]
• Eggs Sardou – Louisiana Creole cuisine dish^[6]
• Enchilada – Corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a sauce
• Energy bar – Nutritional snack bar^[61][62]
• English muffin – Small, round, flat yeast-leavened bread^[63]

F

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

• Facturas – Multilayered, laminated sweet pastry
• Fatoot samneh – Israeli fried pita and egg dish
• French toast – Dish of fried bread, eggs, and milk^[64]
• Fried bread^[65]
• Fried cheese – served as a breakfast dish in Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey^[66]
• Fried chicken – Consumed as a breakfast food by some in Perth, Western Australia^[67]

Frybread

• Fried egg – Cooked dish made from one or more eggs^[31][68]
• Frittata – Egg-based Italian dish
• Frühschoppen – German and Austrian drinking tradition
• Fruit pudding – Scottish dish in the form of large sausage^[69]
• Frybread – Variety of flatbread^[6]
• Full breakfast – Substantial British and Irish breakfast^[70]

G

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

• Gnocchi – Small pasta-like dough dumplings^[71]
• Goetta – US pork and oats dish^[72]
• Gogli^[73]
• Granola – Breakfast, lunch and snack food
• Griddle scone – Scone made with a griddle or frying pan^[74]
• Grillades^[75]
• Grits – Porridge of boiled cornmeal^[76]

H

Hash with a coddled egg atop it

• Halwa poori^[77]
• Ham^[68]
• Ham and eggs – has been described as a staple of "an old-fashioned American breakfast" and of the traditional English breakfast^[78]
• Hamburger^[79]
• Hangtown Fry^[6]
• Hash^[68]
• Hash browns^[80]
• Home fries^[81]
• Honey Puffs
• Huevos divorciados^[82] – 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.^[83]
• Huevos motuleños
• Huevos pericos
• Huevos rancheros^[84]

I

• Idli – consumed as a breakfast food in Southern India^[21]
• Instant breakfast^[85]
• Irish soda bread^[86]

Idli with sambar and coconut chutney

J

• Jianbing – Chinese street food
• Jianbing guozi – Chinese stuffed pancake
• Johnnycake – American cornmeal flatbread^[3][6]

K

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

• Katogo
• Kedgeree – Fish and rice-based dish^[87][88]
• Khaman^[21]
• Kiribath^[89]
• Kix (cereal) – Breakfast cereal made by General Mills
• Kokosbrood
• Kolache^[90][6]
• Kringle – Type of pretzel^[6]
• Kulcha – a breakfast staple in Pakistan^[91]
• Kulich^[92]

L

• Leben – Food or beverage of fermented milk^[93]
• Lefse – Traditional Norwegian flatbread^[6]
• Linguiça – Type of Portuguese smoke-cured pork sausage^[6]
• Livermush – US pork and cornmeal dish^[6]
• Loco moco – Dish in Hawaiian cuisine^[6]
• Lox^[94]  – a fillet of brined salmon

M

A Turkish breakfast, with menemen (left)

• Malasadas^[6]
• Manakish – Levantine dish similar to pizza and often eaten at breakfast.^[95]
• Mandoca – usually served at breakfast in Venezuela^[96]
• Maple syrup^[97]
• Mas huni – a breakfast dish in the Maldives.^[98]
• Matzah brei^[99]  – a Ashkenazi Passover breakfast
• Maypo
• McGriddles
• McMuffin
• Meeshay
• Menemen^[100]
• Mie goreng^[101]
• Migas^[102][6]
• Milk toast^[103]
• 

  Monkey bread
  Mohinga^[104]  – a breakfast food in Burma
• Monkey bread^[105][106]
• Msemen – a common breakfast dish in Morocco^[a]
• Muesli^[108]
• Muffin^[3]
• Mugoyo

N

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

• Nasi goreng – a breakfast dish in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore^[109]
• Nasi lemak – a breakfast dish in Malaysia and Singapore ^[110]
• Nattō - a Japanese breakfast dish

O

• Oatmeal^[111]
• Omelette^[68]
• Ontbijtkoek^[112]
• Orange juice^[113]
• Ox-tongue pastry^[114]
• Oysters Rockefeller

P

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

Millet porridge

Roti john

• Pain au chocolat^[115]
• Pain aux raisins^[116]
• Palm syrup^[117]
• Palmier^[118]
• Pan de yuca – served for breakfast or with tea in Bolivia^[119]
• Pancake^[68]
• Pandebono – a breakfast food in Colombia^[120]

Pesarattu is a special breakfast in Andhra Pradesh, India.

• Pandesal – a common Philippine breakfast bread^[121]
• Pastry^[122]
• Paczki
• Peanut butter^[123]
• Pebete
• Pear^[124]
• Pekmez
• Perico^[125]
• Pesarattu – a breakfast crepe from Andhra Pradesh, India made with green gram^[126]
• Phitti – a hunza bread that is a common breakfast food^[127]
• Pisca Andina^[128]
• Poached egg^[129]
• Poha
• Pop-Tarts^[130]
• Popcorn cereal – popcorn with milk and a sweetener; consumed by Americans in the 1800s^[131]
• Popover^[132]
• Pork brains and eggs^[6]
• 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^[133]
• Portuguese sweet bread^[134]
• Potato cake^[135]
• Potato pancake
• Potato scone^[136]
• Potatoes O'Brien
• Protein bar^[137]
• Pumpkin bread^[138][139]
• Puttu^[140]

Q

• 

  Ham and cheese quiche
  Quiche
• Quick bread

R

• Raisin bran
• Raisin bread^[141][142]
• Reindeer meat^[143][144]
• Rice
• Rolled oats^[145]
• Roti canai^[146]
• Roti prata^[147]
• Run down^[3]  – a traditional Jamaican breakfast dish prepared with salt mackerel, coconut milk, tomato and various vegetable and spices

S

Scrambled eggs with bacon

• Sabaayad – Meal in Somalia and Djibouti^[148]
• Salmon^[149]
• Salt cod – Preserved fish^[3]
• Satti
• Sausage – Meat product^[150]
• Sausage gravy – Breakfast dish from the Southern United States^[151]
• Scone – Baked good^[152]
• Scrambled eggs – Culinary egg dish^[10]
• Scrapple – American pork offal mush^[153][6]
• Shaobing – Flatbread from Chinese cuisine
• Shengjian mantou
• Shrimp and grits^[6]
• Silog
• Simit – a Turkish snack bread and breakfast food ^[154]
• Sizzlean^[155]
• Slinger – a breakfast food that originated in St. Louis, Missouri^[156][6]

A green smoothie

• Smoothie – Drink made from fruit or vegetables^[157][158]
• Soft-boiled eggs^[124]
• Soufflé – Baked egg-based dish using beaten egg whites to give an aerated texture
• Sopapillas^[159]
• Stamp and Go^[3]
• Strata – American egg dish^[160]
• Strudel – Type of layered pastry^[161][162]
• Suhur – Islamic meal eaten at dawntime in Ramadan before fasting
• Syrniki – Fried quark pancakes from Eastern European cuisine^[163]

T

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

A toasted English teacake (right) shown with a caffè mocha

• Tacos
• Tamago kake gohan – a Japanese breakfast food consisting of cooked rice topped or mixed with raw egg, and optionally, soy sauce^{[citation needed]}
• Taylor ham^[6]
• Teacake
• Texas toast^[164]
• Throdkin^[165]
• 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^{[citation needed]}
• Toast^[3][31]
• Toaster Strudels
• Tomato omelette^[166][167]
• Tongue^[168]
• Tongue toast^[169]
• Touton^[170]
• Tripe^{[citation needed]}

U

• Upma dosa^[171]

V

• Viennoiserie – Type of baked goods^[172]

W

Waffles with strawberries

• Waffle – Batter- or dough-based food cooked between two patterned, shaped plates^[68][173]
• Water biscuit – Type of biscuit or cracker^[174]
• Weisswurst – Traditional Bavarian sausage^[175]
• Wrap roti^[176] – in Thailand, roti is often eaten for breakfast dipped in sauces.^[177]

X

• Xôi

Y

• Yogurt – Food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk^[24][178]
• Youtiao – Churro-like cruller of Chinese origin

Z

• Zucchini bread – Edible green summer squash^[179][180]