50 Breakfast Recipes to Power Your Morning

First up in our breakfast recipes: the quick and easy Breakfast Sandwich! Does it really take 5 minutes? You bet it does. (A BuzzFeed writer actually tried it and timed it!) Top your English muffin with a quick fried egg, pesto, and sauteed arugula. 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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5 Minute Pesto Breakfast Sandwich
Ultimate Fried Egg Sandwich

There’s no breakfast better than oatmeal, in our minds! So let us introduce you to a daily staple around here: this delicious peanut 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

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 or tofu, depending on your diet. It’s full of savory flavor…and loaded with nutrients, too.

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Breakfast Vegetable Scramble
Easy Tofu Scramble
Fluffy Scrambled Eggs with Goat Cheese

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’re so tasty! 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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Pecan & Veggie Mini Frittatas
Asparagus Frittata with Feta
Kale Artichoke Veggie Frittata

Here’s a perfect breakfast recipe that works for all those in between moments, too. These easy no bake Oatmeal Bars! These were big winners 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

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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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

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
Best Instant Oatmeal Recipe

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!

All baked oatmeal recipes:
Banana Baked Oatmeal
Everyday Baked Oatmeal
Baked Apple Oatmeal
Carrot Cake Baked Steel Cut Oatmeal
Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal
Cherry Baked Oatmeal

There's no easier breakfast recipe than toast! Enter...the ever popular avocado toast. There's really nothing better than a mashed ripe avocado on a piece of thick, crunchy toast. If you'd like, top with a poached egg for extra protein. Or eat it plain as a plant-based option!

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Avocado Toast with Egg
Almond Butter Toast
Vegan French Toast with Caramelized Bananas

Here's a seriously easy...and delicious...savory breakfast idea: Breakfast Tacos! Did you know that eggs can taste like taco meat? Yes, somehow the spiced scrambled eggs filling channels the flavor of taco meat plus chorizo. We've used this trick over and over...it's in our list of essentials every cook should know.

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Epic Breakfast Tacos
Amazing Egg Tacos
5 Minute Tacos
Tacos Rancheros

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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Best Smoothie Recipes
Best Fruit Smoothie Recipes
Vegetable Smoothie Recipes
Dairy Free Smoothies to Try
Smoothie Recipes with Yogurt
Favorite Green Smoothie Recipes
Vegan Smoothie Recipes to Try

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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Healthy Granola Recipe
Honey Almond Granola
Maple Pecan Homemade Muesli
Chocolate Muesli Recipe

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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How to Fry an Egg
Sunny Side Up Eggs
Over Easy Eggs
Over Medium Eggs
Over Hard Eggs
Poached Eggs
Hard Boiled Eggs
Soft Boiled Eggs

What's better than crispy, crunchy hash browns for breakfast? Homemade hash browns are 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!

All hash browns recipes: 
Homemade Hash Browns
Oven Hash Browns 
Sweet Potato Hash Browns
Poached Eggs and Potatoes

Waffles earn you major points with your friends and fam as a special weekend breakfast recipe! This 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. And the strawberry sauce…it’s thick and sweetened with maple, full of beautiful strawberry flavor. This recipe has a healthy spin: it’s not too sweet and the waffles made of all plant based ingredients. 

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Strawberry Waffles
Fluffy Gluten Free Waffles
Best Blueberry Waffles
Vegan Waffles
Pumpkin Waffles
Sweet Cornbread Waffles

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!

All healthy muffin recipes:
Banana Bread Muffins
Gluten Free Banana Muffins
Best Blender Muffins
Healthy Zucchini Muffins or Apple Zucchini Muffins
Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins or Healthy Blueberry Muffins
Favorite Applesauce Muffins

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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Homemade Acai Bowl (or make a smoothie bowl with the smoothies below...)
Perfect Strawberry Smoothie
Kiwi Smoothie
Dragon Fruit Smoothie
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Avocado Banana Smoothie
Peanut Butter Smoothie

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-filled healthy breakfast just got easier.

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.

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 find vegan savory breakfast ideas, and this one is perfection. Even better: it takes only 10 minutes to make.

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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Classic Omelette
Omelette with Greens