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Want all the best ways to start the day? These healthy and easy breakfast recipes deliver, from oatmeal to smoothies to scrambles.
Looking for all the best ways to start the day? It’s hard to find great breakfast recipes that are simple, healthy, and actually fill you up. Many recipes are full of too much sugar, or don’t have enough protein to stick with you through the day. So here we’ve put together our best breakfast recipes, organized by type! These ideas cover quick and easy concepts for busy mornings, and recipes for special meals and lazy weekends (and don’t forget breakfast for dinner). Either way, they’re both nutrient-packed and irresistible. Ready to get cooking?
And now…the best breakfast recipes to try!
Breakfast Sandwich
First up in our breakfast recipes: a quick and easy Breakfast Sandwich! Does it really take 5 minutes? You bet it does. It’s simple, but the combination of flavors is perfection. It’s one of our favorite quick breakfast recipes. Or, try some of the other options below!
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Healthy Breakfast Sandwich
5 Minute Pesto Breakfast Sandwich
Ultimate Fried Egg Sandwich
Loaded Oatmeal Bowls
There’s nobreakfastbetter than oatmeal, in our minds! So let us introduce you to a daily staple around here: this deliciouspeanut butter oatmeal! Here’s the thing: oatmeal can be gloppy, gooey, or under-seasoned. But cook up a pot the right way, and it tastes like a dream! Check out all these creamy oatmeal variations (or keep scrolling for other types):
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Classic Oatmeal
Peanut Butter Oatmeal
Creamy Banana Oatmeal
Best Vegan Oatmeal
Easy Instant Pot Oatmeal
Perfect Steel Cut Oats
Apple Cinnamon Pressure Cooker Steel Cut Oats
Breakfast Vegetable Scrambles
This breakfast scramble is the ideal breakfast recipe, and unlike most…it’s loaded with vegetables! Eating more veggies to start the day is starting to trend. Why not re-imagine breakfast? Let’s infuse veggies into the first meal of the day, too. You can make this scramble two ways: with eggs ortofu, depending on your diet. It’s full of savory flavor…and loaded with nutrients, too.
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Breakfast Vegetable Scramble
Scrambled Eggs with Cottage Cheese
Easy Tofu Scramble
Fluffy Scrambled Eggs with Goat Cheese
Frittatas
Here's a breakfast recipe trick: mini frittatas! Basically a muffin made of egg, they’re easy to meal prep and grab as you’re headed out the door. Refrigerate or freeze ’em, and you can eat off them all week. The best part: they’resotasty! They’re filled with colorful veggies and crunchy pecans for added protein and nutrients. These are best as a make-ahead option.
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Asparagus Frittata with Feta
Kale Artichoke Veggie Frittata
Breakfast Bars
Here’s a perfect breakfast recipe that works for all those in between moments, too. These easy no bakeOatmeal Bars! These werebigwinners in our house and quickly solidified themselves into the weekly repertoire. These breakfast bars star peanut butter, honey, and Old Fashioned oats, and they’re a healthy breakfast or snack you can feel good feeding yourself or your family.
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Easy Oatmeal Bars
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars
Pecan Breakfast Bars
Pancakes
There's nothing better than pancakes for a special weekend breakfast! One of our favorite variations is our Amazing Oatmeal Pancakes, made in a blender with 100% oats. It's hearty and filling, but it tastes fluffy and incredible: almost like vanilla cake! (It's true.) But we've got pancakes for every season. See below!
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Go-To Banana Pancakes
Best-Ever Oatmeal Pancakes
Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Peanut Butter Pancakes
Go-To Vegan Pancakes
Cozy Applesauce Pancakes
Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
Lemon Blueberry Pancakes
Carrot Cake Pancakes
Greek Yogurt Pancakes
Sour Cream Pancakes
Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes
Gluten Free Pancakes
Banana Oatmeal Pancakes
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Overnight Oats
Looking for the epitome of an easy breakfast recipe? Try overnight oats! There’s no cooking involved here: in fact, you can mix up a jar in just 2 minutes! Leave rolled oats in the fridge overnight with milk, and it magically makes them into a sort of porridge. Eat them cold topped with berries or nut butter and they’re absolutely fantastic!
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Overnight Oats
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Baked Oatmeal
One of our favorite breakfast recipes of all time: baked oatmeal! It requires a little more effort than the creamy version, but you can make a big pan and eat off of it all week. This banana baked oatmeal is cozy-spiced, wholesome and filling, made with good-for-you ingredients: mostly oats and bananas. It happens to be a gluten free and vegan recipe, but it pleases absolutely everyone. Or try one of the variations below!
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Banana Baked Oatmeal
Everyday Baked Oatmeal
Baked Apple Oatmeal
Carrot Cake Baked Steel Cut Oatmeal
Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal
Cherry Baked Oatmeal
French Toast
It’s cinnamon-scented, crispy on the outside and custardy on the inside: try ourbest French toast recipe! It’s basic, but it can taste like a luxurious morning of hotel room service if it’s done right. Here we’ve cracked the code to the very best way to make this classic breakfast recipe.
Crustless Quiche with Spinach
Try amake-ahead crustless quiche for breakfast! It’s deliciously savory and hearty, with lots of protein to keep bellies full all morning. Even better: it’s so easy to whip up! No need to bother with a quiche crust: just whisk together the filling and pop it in the oven. Thiscrustless spinach quicheis a bit of a miracle: even our spinach-fearing 4 year old loves it!
Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole
Here’s a deliciously comforting recipe that makes your kitchen smell like a cozy diner: Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole! It’s beautifully hearty, pairing cheesy hash browns with chili powder, garlic powder and cumin for massive savory flavor. Because it’s easy to make ahead, it’s super unfussy and low maintenance.
Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowls
Here’s a breakfast idea that’s a bit unexpected, but surprisingly satisfying…Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowls! Sure, cottage cheese and pineapple or melon seems a little retro. So let’s dust off the concept and make a modern way to start the day. Top this high protein cheese with fresh berries or apple, cinnamon and drizzle of honey.
Breakfast Skillet
Want a hearty, savory breakfast recipe? Try thisamazing Breakfast Skillet! Cheesy hash browns topped with runny egg yolks and salsa? Yes please! Even better, the spices in the potatoes mimic breakfast sausage (hello, fennel!) so the entire vibe is extremely hearty and satisfying.
Fancy Toast
There's no easier breakfast recipe than toast! Load up toast with anything you like for a healthy breakfast. There's really nothing better than a mashed ripe avocado on a piece of thick, crunchy toast. Or make ricotta toast with veggies or smoked salmon, or almond butter toast as a vegan option!
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Ricotta Toast
Avocado Toast with Egg
Cottage Cheese Toast
Smoked Salmon Toast
Almond Butter Toast
Crumpets
Vegan French Toast with Caramelized Bananas
Breakfast Tacos, Burritos or Quesadilla
Here's a seriously easy...and delicious...savory breakfast idea: Breakfast Tacos! Stuff them to the brim with breakfast potatoes, cheesy eggs, cilantro and pickled onions. It’s the perfect fast and easy breakfast idea to jump start your morning. Or try a breakfast quesadilla or burrito: filled with fluffy eggs and hearty cheese!
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Smoothies are great for breakfast: and you can pack them with protein using Greek yogurt and add-ins like nut butter and protein powder! There are all sorts of variations, whether you like fruit flavors or bright green veggie-based smoothies. Browse our collections below!
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Granola or Muesli
A great make-ahead breakfast recipe is healthy granola! Serve it over yogurt, or with almond milk or oat milk. Our favorite maple pecan granola is low calorie and still nutrient dense...and full of toasty, cozy flavor. Or try muesli: it's similar to granola but with raw oats and less sugar.
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Eggs: 7 Ways
Diner-style fried eggs are the perfect breakfast! There are 4 main ways to make them: sunny side up, over easy, over medium, and over hard. Of course, don't forget poached and boiled! Here are the methods so you can master all these techniques! Add toast, sautéed veggies, or hash browns (below) for a hearty breakfast.
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Sunny Side Up Eggs
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Hash Browns
What's better than crispy, crunchy hash browns for breakfast? Homemade hash brownsare incredibly delicious, and they’re not much harder than cracking open a bag of frozen ones. These hash browns come out browned and crispy, with flecks of tender moist shreds that combine into a texture that tastes like a cozy hug,. You can make them in a skillet or in the oven. Add an egg and enjoy!
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Perfect Waffle Recipe
Waffles earn you major points with your friends and fam as a special weekend breakfast recipe! This one one is easy to make and full of flavor, perfect for Sunday brunch or any time you need to impress. The waffles are perfectly fluffy, full of big flavor with a short ingredient list. Top with all the best toppings (like strawberry sauce) and enjoy.
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Perfect Waffle Recipe
Strawberry Waffles
Fluffy Gluten Free Waffles
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Pumpkin Waffles
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Healthy Muffins
Most muffins are glorified cake. (Yep, we said it!) But what about healthy muffins for breakfast? One of our most popular muffin recipes that works for anytime is these healthy banana bread muffins! They’re lightly sweet and made of 100% oats (no flour!) and bananas. They’re blender muffins so they’re easy to make at home: you can make them in advance and refrigerate prior to brunching. Browse the other tasty flavors below!
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Banana Bread Muffins
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Best Blender Muffins
Healthy Zucchini MuffinsorApple Zucchini Muffins
Blueberry Oatmeal MuffinsorHealthy Blueberry Muffins
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Smoothie Bowls
Smoothie bowls are a great way to load up a smoothie with protein-packed toppings! Of course, our favorite smoothie bowl is the popular Acai Bowl. This traditionally Brazilian treat is a frosty purple smoothie topped with a confetti of beautiful toppings. They're a total treat! One reader told us: “Made your acai bowl recipe and OH MY! I’ve never had one I’ve enjoyed as much as this. It was so perfectly balanced, and my husband loved it too!”
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Easy Smoothie Bowl
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Savory Oatmeal
We'd be remiss without mentioning savory oatmeal as a breakfast recipe! This unique method of serving oatmeal is a veggie-packed way to start the day. Top the bowl with a fried egg and garlicky sauteed kale, and the yolk makes a creamy sauce that covers everything in goodness. It’s no secret that we’re oatmeal obsessed around here…and eating a veggie-filledhealthy breakfastjust got easier.
Magic Breakfast Cookies
So here’s a make ahead breakfast recipe that fits in the palm of your hand: these Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies! Yes, it’s magic: oats, nut butter, applesauce, and maple syrup transform into cookies that you can eat for breakfast. There’s none of those traditional cookie ingredients: no flour, no butter, no oil, and no refined sugar. How is it possible? You’ve got to taste.
Breakfast Cookies
Here's another great make-ahead breakfast recipe: breakfast cookies! These “cookies” are healthy, made with oats and nuts and lightly sweetened with maple syrup. It’s basically like taking your bowl of oatmeal, to go! You can pop them in the freezer for long term storage and then just grab one on your way out the door.
Easy Tofu Scramble
The tofu scramble deserves its own feature...because it's a truly delicious plant based breakfast recipe! There's lots more to breakfast than just eggs. This recipe works for eaters of all kinds. You'll be surprised at how much the texture and flavor mimics a scramble...but it's 100% plant based! It’s hard to findvegan savory breakfast ideas, and this one is perfection. Even better:it takes only 10 minutes to make.
Classic Omelette
Omelettes are a quick and easy breakfast recipe that are sometimes overlooked! In just 5 minutes, you have a filling, flavor-packed meal. Make it with cheese as the filling or add sauteed mushrooms, greens, or other veggies.
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More breakfast ideas…by type
Looking for more breakfast ideas? We’ve got you. There are lots of ways to slice and dice what you need in the morning. Here are a few more ideas listed by type:
- Easy Breakfast Ideas Our favorite ideas that are simple to make and deliver on flavor!
- Healthy Breakfast Recipes Looking to start the day right? Here are our top ideas.
- Savory Breakfast Ideas to Power Your Day These savory recipes go big on vegetables.
- Gluten Free Breakfast Ideas Here are all the best ways to start the day…sans gluten.
- Do you eat plant-based? Try these tasty ways to power your morning.
- 100 Best Brunch Recipes Looking to entertain or have a lazy weekend? Check out these ideas.
50+ Best Breakfast Recipes! (Breakfast Sandwich & More)
- Author: Sonja Overhiser
- Prep Time: 3 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 8 minutes
- Yield: 1 1x
Description
This healthy breakfast sandwich is an easy way to start the day with veggies and protein! The spinach feta filling is hearty and satisfying.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 whole grain English muffin (or bagel thins: we like gluten-free O’Doughs)
- 1 egg (or 2 eggs, for a more filling sandwich)
- 3 pinches kosher salt, divided
- 1 drizzle olive oil
- 1 ½ cups baby spinach (or chopped spinach)
- 1 pinch garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon feta cheese
- 1 slice tomato
- 1/4 ripe avocado, mashed
Instructions
- Toast the English muffin.
- Meanwhile, whisk the egg and add 1 pinch salt and fresh ground pepper. Add a drizzle olive oil to a very small nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the spinach and 1 pinch each salt and garlic powder, and cook until it is wilted, about 2 minutes. Spread the spinach to cover the bottom of the pan. Pour in egg, adjusting it with a spatula so it covers the entire bottom of the pan. Sprinkle with the feta cheese and cook, without flipping, for about 2 minutes until mostly set. Once mostly set, fold the egg in half, then in half again to make a wedge.
- Mash the avocado with another pinch salt, and spread it on the top half of the English muffin. Add the last pinch of salt to the tomato slice. Place the eggs on the bottom of the English muffin, then add the eggs, tomato, and top half of the English muffin. Enjoy immediately.
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Breakfast
- Diet: Vegetarian
Keywords: Breakfast recipes
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About the authors
Sonja & Alex
Hi, we’re Alex and Sonja Overhiser, married cookbook authors, food bloggers, and recipe developers. We founded A Couple Cooks to share fresh, seasonal recipes for memorable kitchen moments! Our recipes are made by two real people and work every time.
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