The Breakfast Club: 7 Recipes To Break Your Fast

There is something peculiarly luxurious about a breakfast you’ve taken time and effort over. In much the same way as dining out on scrambled egg and bacon in a fancy café often feels like more of a treat than dinner, so too does a lavish brekkie at home. After all, we usually make some kind of effort, even if minimal, for supper, and yet most morning’s repasts are characterised by a piece of bread flung hastily in the toaster or a bowl of cereal. At least once a week, then, it feels good to take our time over the breaking of one’s fast and really treat ourselves and those we live with. So grab the papers, turn the radio up, throw on a dressing gown, and enjoy.

Your New Avocado Toast

Bon Appetit


Avocado toast is so past peak cliché that it’s now a classic. And as with all classics, it is eminently customisable. We like this super healthy take on it, with its pretty ribbons of cucumber, tahini and crushed chilli flakes. We think it would work equally well atop the, perhaps even healthier, toasted dark German rye bread. Make it.

Tomato & Butterbean Baked Eggs

Amelia Freer


Amelia Freer has made it her life’s work to make moreish and wholly delicious food that does our bodies good. This dish makes a hearty, nourishing and very fine way to start the day – plus it’s easy and forgiving too; you can switch up almost any of the veg for whatever you may have hanging about in the fridge. Filling, good for you and inexpensive, we’d serve it with a hunk of sourdough to mop up all those tasty juices. Make it.

Salted Date Caramel Pecan Butter

Anna Jones


Sometimes it’s the simple things that pack the most punch. As Anna Jones writes, ‘There is so much joy in making something at home that you usually buy, an unparalleled feeling of smugness. My favourite thing about making cupboard staples at home, though, is the freedom to make things that are truly original, to mix flavours you can’t find anywhere else, and tweak and blend things just to my taste.’ It’s simple to make too; all you need is raw pecans, Medjool dates, a pinch of salt and some water – and, like Anna says, tweak with anything else you so desire to your own taste. Spread it generously on a slab of rye toast. Make it.

French Toast With Banana And Maple Syrup

Delicious Magazine


Fluffy French toast doused in cinnamon and Maple syrup: is there any dreamier way to break our fasts of a lazy morning? We think not.

Sticky Cinnamon Fig & Yoghurt Breakfast Bowls

Jamie Oliver


Grabbing breakfast on-the-go need not mean plumping for nutritionally empty bites. You can prep this granola bowl ahead of time, with its crunchy pistachios and gut-healthy Greek yogurt, all topped with warm fruit from the oven (it need not always be figs; choose whatever is in season). The perfect way to pack some goodness into kids and grown-ups alike. Make it.

Spring Fritatta With Crispy Chorizo

Olive Magazine


Savoury breakfasts are known to help keep our blood sugar stable and thus lessen the harmful effects of yo-yoing glucose levels. They can also be absolutely gloriously tasty too – as evidenced by this gorgeous spring frittata, which is packed with greens and given a kick thanks to the salty (and spicy too, if you so wish) chorizo. A brilliant way to get eight of your 30 plants a week into one brekkie – and keep you full and happy all morning. In fact, we’d happily make this for any meal of the day. Make it.

The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich

Pinch of Yum


What beats a breakfast sandwich featuring salty bacon, scrambled egg, tomato sauce and guacamole? Why, a breakfast sandwich featuring salty bacon, scrambled egg, tomato sauce and guacamole served up in a croissant. Soft, dreamy, salty, buttery goodness on a plate. Make it.

By Nancy Alsop
March 2023