Nigella's Breakfast Recipes

Breakfast Bruschetta

This is quick to make, absurdly easy in fact. The strange thing is that it is as easy to eat, even first thing. I can wolf this stuff down.

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Andy's Fairfield Granola

I came across this while on book tour in America many moons ago, and it showed be just how good granola could be. I am enormously grateful to Andy Rolleri for supplying the recipe. It's a revelation,…

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Apple and Blackberry Kuchen

Kuchen, in this context, may be simply "cake" in German, but what it means in America, taken there by German refugees, is a sweet, but not too sweet, yeasted dough, baked in a slab and topped as desir…

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Orange French Toast

There is not a type of French toast I don't love, but this version — a kind of eggy, squidgy toast and marmalade — is the perfect mixture between morning-sharp and weekend treatiness.

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Chocolate Croissants

First, let me say that if I can do this, you can. As I have never tried to hide, I have no patience and even less dexterity. But this is child's play: indeed, you could consider getting children to ma…

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Chopped Fruit Salad

The pomegranate juice mentioned here is out of a bottle, but if you're using out-of-season strawberries, add a squeeze of real juice to steep the berries and replace the mixed seeds with a gloriously…

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American Breakfast Pancakes

These are those thick, spongy American pancakes that are often eaten with warm maple syrup and crisp fried bacon. I love them with the syrup alone, but if you do want bacon, I think streaky is best. Y…

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Corsican Omelette

Bear with me — as telephonists like to say — while I gush for a bit. This has to be the world's best omelette. I call it Corsican not because it stems from any in-depth research into, or indeed intima…

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Crepes

Although thick, fluffy American pancakes seem to predominate in my house, I couldn't let Pancake Day pass without making a batch of these: it would seem a sin against tradition, nature and greed. They…

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Home Made Instant Pancake Mix

I find this a real life-saver. I make a container full of this and then I just have to whisk in egg, milk and melted butter whenever I need a breakfast's worth of pancakes. Serve with the syrup of you…

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Breakfast Bars

I am addicted to these, and so is everyone I give them to. Although they're quick to throw together, they do take nearly an hour to bake, so what I suggest is, make a batch at the weekend and then you…

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Doughnut French Toast

My weaknesses are mainly savoury — think salt and vinegar crisps or cheese and biscuits — but there are times when only a doughnut will do. This craving can get desperate late at night when the shops…

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Eggs in Purgatory

You don't actually need to have a hangover to enjoy this for breakfast (or anytime), but there is something about this easy and quick dish of eggs cooked in a fiery tomato sauce that just hits the spo…

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Salmon Kedgeree with Lime and Coriander

Kedgeree started life, in India, as a dish of lentils and rice and then, translated into the kitchens of the Raj, and brought back home, became an eggy, golden pile of rice punctuated with slabby chun…

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Mexican Scrambled Eggs

This is not only the best way to start the day, but the best way to end it, too. You can make it even more of a meal by serving some refried beans alongside, but I love it just as it is. It also happe…

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Perfect! Feeling slightly fragile this morning and this has perked me up no end!

Apple and Cinnamon Muffins

There are few things I find more satisfying in the kitchen than using up produce: the very notion of waste sends shivers down my spine. So, when I noticed a couple of apples wilting in the fruit bowl,…

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Banana Butterscotch Muffins

White chocolate morsels can be used in place of the butterscotch ones and my children seem to love both with equal fervour, though I'm pretty fond of these with dark chocolate chips, too.

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Caramel Croissant Pudding

I always think that some of the best recipes come from the thrifty refusal to throw anything away. Certainly, I made this one Monday evening because I had two stale croissants left over from the weeke…

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Catalan Toast

I first came across this in a tapas bar in Barcelona about 100 years ago. Rather different than, say, Italian bruschetta, where the tomatoes are chopped and tumbled on toast, Pa amb tomaquet (as this…

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Cheese Blintzes

The cheese blintz is a wonderful thing: a pancake cooked on one side only, filled with a mixture of curd cheese, lemon zest, vanilla and egg yolk, folded into a parcel and then fried in butter before…

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Chocolate Banana Muffins

I tend to think of muffins as a grab-and-go refuelling treat or something you'd make for a weekend breakfast, but these look so darkly elegant, especially in their matching dark-brown, tulip-skirted p…

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This recipe is wonderful! The muffins rose so high that they looked like I'd bought them from a coffee shop. They tasted so delicious and stayed moist for days and days. After reading other comments I'm definitely inspired to try adding chocolate chips and other embellishments to see what magic can be made. Another absolute staple in my repertoire of baking recipes, thank you once again for a faultless recipe Nigella.

Chocolate Tahini Banana Bread

I love the subtly rich smokiness of tahini, but I have only enjoyed cooking with it since I turned away from the spoon-bendingly thick stuff from my local supermarket, in favour of the more fluid vari…

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Christmas Morning Muffins

I have never quite understood how people can go in for vast, rich breakfasts on Christmas morning. I am hardly a modest eater by anyone's standards, but even I can't quite accommodate a platterful of…

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Croque Monsieur Bake

Like many good brunch recipes, this is also just the ticket for an early evening supper, the sort you eat in your dressing gown before sophisticated adults feel it is entirely proper to dine. The joy…

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This is so delicious! We often make it up the night before and have it for dinner. A real winner!

Dutch Baby

I’ve only ever eaten Dutch babies in the States, where they are brought out to you at the table with great pomp: great pancakes puffed up and golden, still in the cast-iron skillets they were cooked i…

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Gluten-Free Banana Bread

I am a woman of my word, and I promised a gluten-free banana bread. Here, finally, it is. I took my time with it, because I wanted to get it right. I’m not interested in anything that is ‘good for glu…

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Green Eggs and Ham

This weekend breakfast favourite can, frankly, be eaten at any time of the day with equal relish and has also in its favour that children (who in my experience would probably eat anything if it had pe…

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Hot Cross Buns

I make my hot cross buns slightly smaller than is traditional. Don't know why, just like them that way, but you form them the size you want, please. Just one thing I must be strict about: you do need…

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Kedgeree Risotto

This is a strange hybrid of a recipe: kedgeree cooked as if it were a risotto, that is to say Anglo-Indian influence, Italian method. I admit, however, that Italians may look askance at this recipe: a…

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Norwegian Cinnamon Buns

The Northern Europeans, and especially the Scandinavians, are wonderful bakers and eating these for breakfast or tea on a cold winter's day makes me feel grateful for a climate many moan about. But th…

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Nutella Pancakes

Let joy be unconfined. This is one of the most irresistible puddings I think I have ever made, and I did it by no more than some fruitful scimmaging about my cupboards. I long for it almost constantly…

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Panettone French Toast

While I was tempted to call this Italian Toast, rather than the almost tactless Panettone French Toast, I felt the latter title had the benefit of conveying to you exactly what this is. You can certai…

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Parmesan French Toast

While obviously a contender for weekend brunch, this savoury take on French toast is, for me, a perfect early supper when I feel like something comforting and quick. It's also exactly what I need when…

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Passionfruit Curd

As wonderful as this is to eat piled on top of fresh white bread, it is exceptional sandwiching a Victoria sponge, dolloped over muffins and pancakes, or poured into a cooked and cooled pastry case.

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Red Velvet Pancakes

It has been impossible not to notice the growing popularity for that classic of the American South (a region I have a culinary fondness for) the Red Velvet Cake; this is an observation and a personal…

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Ricotta Hotcakes

These are breakfast pancakes summer-style, ridiculously light, and lemony somehow even without the addition of lemon. If you imagine the flavour of cheesecake combined with a texture that's best descr…

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These have become a firm family favourite! When I'm stuck for an after school meal idea I turn to these hot cakes. Not only does my 4 year old love these with cheese/ham/fruit/honey, he'll also gladly help with the measuring and whisking. Fab!

Rum-Spiked French Toast

This is my favourite French toast recipe of all time, and yet I don’t make it nearly enough. It came into my life some years back when I had a small bit of old-fashioned sandwich loaf that needed usin…

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Soda Bread Buns With Fennel Seeds And Cranberries

I recommend eating one of these for breakfast with lots of unsalted butter, which gives all the sweetness I need, but if you want a sweeter bun, add 50ml runny honey along with the yogurt and egg. Lik…

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Swedish Cinnamon Buns

Swedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa…

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Swedish Pancakes

I’ve always admired the Swedes for their serious commitment to pancakes. Not for them the once-a-year splurge, wonderful though it is: oh no, in Sweden pancakes are on the menu every Thursday. I don’t…

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Toasty Olive Oil Granola

I mean no disrespect to Andy’s Fairfield Granola in the slightest when I say that this slightly plainer version is the granola I make and eat and savour the most these days. It has no dried fruit in i…

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I make this all the time and it's delicious and people always ask for the recipe - great to have something where you know exactly what is in it - lovely with Greek yoghurt and raspberries.

Tortilla Pie

This recipe for an easy, throw-it-all-together weekday supper or bolstering weekend breakfast comes from my long-time kitchen companion, Hettie Potter, and very grateful I am, too. Think of this as a…

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Turkish Eggs

If I hadn’t eaten the Turkish eggs at Peter Gordon’s restaurant, The Providores, I most certainly wouldn’t be tempted by the idea of poached eggs on Greek yogurt. I say that only to pre-empt any hesit…

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Waffles

I was watching an American TV show recently and missed a lot of the plot, as I was distracted by the amount of waffle-eating going on. I tried to prevent myself getting a waffle iron; I’d made that mi…

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