29 Five-Ingredient Breakfast Recipes
You don't have to clean out the cupboards to put together a delicious breakfast. With just a few ingredients, you can whip up one of these quick dishes for an easy start to your day.
Cajun-Style Hash Browns
"Excellent! This is great way to make potatoes, and easy to prepare! I especially liked the Cajun flavor."
-Miss Annie
Two-Ingredient Pancakes
"This is a super quick, super easy, super healthy recipe that helps satisfy my pancake craving. These are very thin—very similar to crepes—so don't make these expecting your typical fluffy buttermilk pancakes."
-KiwiHil
Tater Tot Cups with Cheese & Eggs
"I thought it was very good. There is potential for many variations (add sausage, sprinkle with herbs, sauces, etc). Here's a tip: I find that a gravy ladle works better than a spoon for mashing the tater tots into the muffin tins."
-Halcyon Eve
Swedish Scrambled Eggs
"We love dill scrambled eggs, and the addition of cream cheese just pushes them into a whole new, rich, creamy world."
-Debbwl
Easy Breakfast Egg Casserole
"A tried-and-true recipe that you can modify so many different ways!"
-CookinDiva
Original Praline Bacon Recipe
"Wonderfully delicious (read as outrageously sinful)! Will be keeping this recipe around, for sure!"
-Sydney Mike
Oatmeal Cottage Cheese Pancakes
"This recipe revolutionized my pancake-making. It showed me that you don't need flour to make good pancakes: the batter is very flexible."
-frglar
Huevos Rancheros Potato Waffles
"This recipe has a great combination of flavors and textures, and is very flavorful too."
-colleenlucky7
Kielbasa and Eggs
"The amount of flavor a good Kielbasa brings to eggs is both surprising and very scrumptious. This is so quick and easy; you could have it any day of the week, or even when just running out the door."
-Debbwl
Alton Brown's Omelette
"I had never made an omelette before, so this was the perfect recipe for me; it was easy to follow! And the results were delicious! I used to think omelettes were hard to make, boy was I wrong!"
-my3beachbabes
Box of Cereal Breakfast Sundae
"Looks pretty and is easy to make with lots of variety. I used fresh raspberries, homemade vanilla yogurt and gluten-free crispy chocolate rice cereal."
-UmmBinat
Cinnamon Sugar Biscuits
"I woke up this morning and wanted something yummy and quick. These did the trick! They quickly satisfied my early morning sweet tooth."
-Soup Fly *
Sausage Breakfast Cookies
"I make these all the time. The entire family loves them. They're easy to make and even easier to eat."
-BamaBelle30
Peanut Butter (& Jelly) Oatmeal
"We eat oatmeal at least four days a week and I love peanut butter. Now they are happily married into a quick, creamy, healthy breakfast."
-Debbwl
Lettuce Breakfast Wraps
"WOW! A sandwich without bread... I smashed a little avocado into the mayo mixture with good results. Now if I could just give up the sweets!"
-gailanng
Spanish French Toast
"I have always sprinkled cinnamon on top of my french toast but never thought of adding it to the batter. It was a great addition."
-Hill Family
Peach Surprise
"This was to funny! I gave this to my sleepy daughter this morning and she kept trying to break the yolk! She had a good laugh when I told her what it was."
-cookee monster
Cinnamon Monkey Bread
"This was a very tasty addition to our Christmas brunch. The kids all renamed it Monkey Toes, and asked me to keep the recipe so we can have it again next time!"
-alsparks73
Asparagus Frittata
"I had forgotten how quick and easy frittatas are to make until I prepared this. There's very little effort for a whole lot of flavor."
-JackieOhNo!
Easy Donuts
"I was leery of making doughnuts with biscuit mix, but these are great. They're hot and ready when I want them and always the flavors I'm craving."
-TEJx3
Light Italian-Feta Omelet
"This made a very tasty breakfast. I really enjoyed the burst of flavors from the sweet tomato combined with the fresh basil and feta."
-PaulaG
Peanutty Apple Toast
"Breakfast is my favorite meal, and this is one of the reasons why. I usually eat apples and peanut butter or just toast, but combining them is ingenious."
-superblondieno2
Toad in a Hole
"I've made these for years and my kids love them. I use a heart shape cookie cutter and cook the cut out heart too and put it on top before I serve them. I call them 'love nests.'"
-Pegan