Unique Breakfast/Brunch Recipes
What’s better on a Sunday morning than a collection of interesting breakfast recipes? (Aside, of course, from the dishes themselves.) Breakfast, and perhaps particularly brunch, are interesting meals to work with. When it comes to lunch and dinner, the concepts are essentially boundless. Anything that is food — excluding, perhaps, exceptionally sweet dishes — can fit just fine on a lunch or dinner table. With breakfast and brunch, though, we’re much more constrained. To fit in a menu for the morning meal, a dish really must either contain eggs or be one of the baked goods that we accept as breakfast-friendly, like scones, certain pastries, and things like pancakes and crepes. While this can be somewhat limiting, limitations are also often the key to creativity.
There are millions of ways to make a pizza. Shoe-horning pizza into breakfast, though, means that you have a much smaller breadth of ingredients to work with. So, why not replace the tomato sauce with sausage gravy and cook an egg right in the center? It might seem daft in a different context, but within these constraints, it’s clever, it works, and it’s delicious. Below, you will find a handful of my more interesting breakfast/brunch recipes from across the internet. I hope that they add a bit of creative spice to your morning meal.
Exactly as described above, this is a pizza built for the unique constraints of a breakfast menu. Sausage gravy replaces the tomato sauce, and bits of breakfast sausage stud the mozzarella on top alongside scallions and, of course, a sunny side up egg.
Red Velvet Crepes with Cream Cheese Drizzle
Tangy, chocolatey, and vibrant, red velvet cake is a classic. But baking a cake is a endeavor, and typically demands an event to pair it with. These crepes, on the other hand, are just an excuse to bring those same flavors — and stunning appearance — to the breakfast table instead.
Spicy Gochujang Kale and Eggs Skillet
This recipe is one that you can make any day of the week, and that you will feel good about eating. If Saturday morning comes with breakfast pizzas and red velvet crepes, then Sunday probably ought to come with a spicy gochujang kale and eggs skillet — and maybe a hike. It’s a one-pan meal — as simple as it gets — with scallions and leafy greens cooked in a lovely mixture of spicy Korean chili paste, soy sauce, and rice vinegar. Then you steam the eggs right in the kale, and breakfast is served.
The concept of “egg bites” is a relatively new one in the history of breakfast, but it is one that was certainly missing. Whether you are making a dish for a brunch potluck, meal-prepping for the week, or just looking for an interesting new way to serve eggs for breakfast, these are a revelation. They’re packed with protein, easy to make, easy to eat, easy to freeze and reheat, and delicious to boot. This recipe fills them with Mediterranean flavors in the form of kalamata olives, roasted red peppers, feta cheese, parsley, and capers.
Elotes-Style Breakfast Scramble
It seems like not so long ago, no one knew what elotes were, and now they are everywhere. There’s a good reason for that. The combination of sweet corn, creamy sauce, spicy chile, and salty cheese is just about perfect. As it turns out, these are all also perfect complements to scrambled eggs. In this recipe, a quick scramble of eggs, tomatoes, onions, and sweetcorn gets all dressed up in the elote style, and boy is it delicious.
Bridging the gap between baked goods that are totally acceptable for breakfast and those that would get a raised eyebrow from the traditionalists out there, these carrot cake scones are a recipe that you’ll want to add to your repertoire. That delightful crumbly scone texture is upgraded here not only with grated carrots, toasted pecans, and chewy raisins, but also just the right amount of warm spices and a sweet and tangy cream cheese glaze. Tough to be carrot cake for breakfast, isn’t it?