Breakfast

Every breakfast entry in the Typed recipes library. Each one is a full page: what it does, stage by stage, and what the evidence says.

• Amaranth Porridge with PearA seed the Aztecs farmed, which happens to have more protein than any grain on this list.
• Avocado & Egg Rice BowlEverything good about avocado toast, on last night’s rice, for people who are out of bread.
• Bacon, Egg & Mushroom BrunchThe weekend plate, with enough vegetables on it to earn its place.
• Baked Avocado & EggAn egg baked into half an avocado. Two ingredients, one tray, no technique.
• Baked Blueberry OatmealOne dish on Sunday, six breakfasts through the week, and it reheats better than it bakes.
• Baked Egg MuffinsA tray of these on Sunday is five breakfasts you do not have to think about.
• Banana Oat PancakesBlended oats and banana hold together as a batter with no flour and no sugar in sight.
• Beans on ToastThe cheapest hot breakfast there is, and one of the higher-fibre ones.
• Beetroot & Berry SmoothieThe colour is alarming and the nitrates in it are the reason cyclists drink beetroot juice.
• Berry Compote PorridgeFive minutes of simmered berries turns plain porridge into something worth getting up for.
• Berry Protein SmoothieBreakfast for people who cannot face chewing before eight in the morning.
• Bircher MuesliGrated apple soaked into oats overnight — the original overnight breakfast, and still the best one.
• Breakfast BurritoWrapped so it can be eaten with one hand on the way out of the door, which is the point.
• Buckwheat Blueberry PancakesNutty, gluten-free pancakes that taste like more than the flour they are missing.
• Buckwheat Kasha with MushroomsA savoury breakfast grain from Eastern Europe, for people who have never once wanted fruit at 7am.
• Chilaquiles with EggYesterday’s tortillas simmered in salsa until they go soft at the edges and stay crisp in the middle.
• Cinnamon Apple PorridgePorridge that gets its sweetness from a cooked apple instead of a spoon of sugar.
• Coconut Rice PuddingRice pudding eaten at the right time of day for once, which is the morning.
• Cottage Cheese & Tomato on EzekielSprouted-grain bread and 25g of protein, assembled in the time the toaster takes.
• Cottage Cheese Breakfast BowlThe highest-protein-per-calorie way to start the day that still tastes like dessert.
• Cottage Cheese PancakesPancakes with roughly the protein of a chicken breast, which is not how pancakes usually go.
• Egg White Breakfast WrapA breakfast wrap that keeps the protein and leaves most of the fat behind.
• Freekeh Porridge with ApricotsGreen wheat, harvested young and smoked. It tastes like nothing else in the grain aisle.
• Fried Plantain with EggsWest Africa and the Caribbean both got here independently, which is usually a sign a combination works.
• Ful MedamesEgypt’s national breakfast: mashed fava beans, lemon and oil. Cheap, filling, and about 15g of fibre a serving.
• Ginger Rice CongeeRice cooked until it gives up and turns into soup. Breakfast for anyone whose stomach is not ready for a fight.
• Grapefruit & Cottage CheeseA breakfast from 1975 that has aged better than most of what replaced it.
• Greek Yogurt ParfaitLayered yogurt, fruit, and crunch — most of the work is done by the fridge.
• Green ShakshukaThe same eggs-poached-in-a-pan idea, with the tomatoes swapped for a pan of greens.
• Green SmoothieA way to eat two handfuls of spinach without noticing you have done it.
• Halloumi & EggsThe cheese that does not melt, fried until it squeaks, with eggs and a tomato salad.
• High-Protein OatsPorridge rebuilt around the protein number, for a morning after a hard session.
• Kefir & Chia PotMade in a jar the night before by someone who will not be awake enough to make it in the morning.
• Kefir Berry BowlA breakfast built on a fermented drink with more microbial variety than most probiotic capsules.
• Korean Rolled OmeletteAn omelette rolled in layers rather than folded once, which turns out to be easier than it looks.
• Loaded Avocado ToastThe café order, built at home for a fraction of the price.
• Mango Chia PuddingChia seeds turn coconut milk into pudding overnight — no cooking, no thickener, no effort in the morning.
• Masala OmeletteAn omelette with actual flavour in it, which is more than can be said for most of them.
• Millet Porridge with DatesA grain most people have only ever bought for a bird, cooked the way half the world eats breakfast.
• Natto on RiceThe most divisive breakfast in the library, and the one with the best gut-bacteria case behind it.
• Oat Bran with PrunesThe highest-fibre breakfast in the library, and it is not close.
• Overnight OatsSet it up before bed, breakfast is already done when you wake up.
• Paneer BhurjiScrambled eggs without the eggs — crumbled fresh cheese cooked with onion, tomato and spice.
• Papaya Boat with Yogurt & LimeHalf a papaya used as the bowl. Nothing to wash up and about a day’s vitamin C in it.
• Peanut Butter & Banana ToastThe breakfast you already know how to make, worth doing properly.
• Persimmon & Ricotta ToastA fruit most people walk past, on toast, for about six weeks of the year when it is worth it.
• Pickled Herring on RyeA northern European breakfast that will divide a household, and delivers more omega-3 than salmon does.
• Protein Smoothie BowlThick enough to eat with a spoon, not drink through a straw.
• Quinoa Breakfast BowlLast night’s quinoa, warmed in milk, doing a completely different job.
• Quinoa Porridge with BlackberriesQuinoa for breakfast rather than as the sad base of a salad, which is what it is actually good at.
• Rhubarb & Yogurt BowlStewed rhubarb keeps a week in the fridge, which makes this a two-minute breakfast for six days out of seven.
• Ricotta & Fig ToastThe breakfast to make in the three weeks a year that figs are worth buying.
• Savoury Mushroom OatsOats with no sugar anywhere near them — closer to a risotto than to porridge.
• Semolina UpmaA savoury South Indian breakfast that goes from cupboard to table in twenty minutes.
• ShakshukaEggs poached directly in a spiced tomato sauce, one pan start to finish.
• Shirred Eggs with SpinachEggs baked in cream over greens. The lazy way to cook eggs for more than two people at once.
• Skyr with Toasted AlmondsIcelandic strained yogurt, which is essentially a soft cheese pretending to be a breakfast.
• Smoked Salmon BagelThe café order, built at home in the time the toaster takes.
• Smoked Salmon ScrambleSoft scrambled eggs, taken off the heat before you think they are ready.
• Smoked Trout on RyeA Scandinavian breakfast that takes six minutes and eats like something you ordered.
• Soft Polenta with Poached EggThe gluten-free answer to eggs on toast, and better than it in every way except speed.
• Spelt Pancakes with BlueberriesAn old wheat that makes a nuttier pancake, and a batter that forgives being made the night before.
• Spinach & Feta OmeletteThree eggs, a pan, and the two things in the fridge that always go together.
• Sweet Potato Breakfast HashA skillet you can build from whatever is in the vegetable drawer, with eggs cracked in at the end.
• Sweet Potato ToastSlices of sweet potato through the toaster instead of bread. Sounds like a gimmick, works completely.
• Tahini & Date OatsPorridge that tastes like halva, using two ingredients most people already have and never combine.
• Tropical Mango SmoothieFrozen mango, a splash of coconut water, and no ice needed anywhere.
• Turkish Eggs with YogurtPoached eggs on garlic yogurt under chilli butter. The best ten-minute breakfast anyone has invented.
• Turmeric Tofu ScrambleThe scramble you make when the eggs have run out and you still want the protein.
• Veggie OmeletteA full vegetable drawer folded into three eggs.
• Warm Barley with AppleBarley for breakfast: chewier than oats, and it holds its shape for four days in the fridge.
• Weet-Bix with BananaTwo biscuits, cold milk, a sliced banana. Nothing here is clever and that is the point.

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