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Breakfast is one of the rare pleasures in the morning, which you should not deny yourself. It does not have to consist of the usual sausage sandwiches or prosaic oatmeal. You can borrow inspiration for creating an original breakfast from recipes from around the world.
Dedicated to fans of the classics
Let’s start with the breakfast menu, kindly offered by the hospitable Mother Europe. The most famous in this series is the traditional English breakfast. To overcome it, you will need a brutal appetite. To begin with, you should finish with a fried egg of three eggs with two fried sausages and a few slices of bacon with a crispy crust. The British advise to alternate this treat with white beans in tomato, fried mushrooms and fresh tomatoes. A couple of hot toasts with butter or fruit jam round off a full meal. Black tea is reserved for the inevitable five o’clock, so you will have to soak up the absorbed set of dishes with a glass of orange juice or a cup of black coffee.
A French breakfast is rarely complete without bread. On weekdays, a so-called cold breakfast is served, consisting of a pair of croissants or halves of a baguette with butter, called tartins in the French manner. They are usually washed down with hot chocolate, not too strong coffee, sometimes in addition to cream. A true Frenchman is sure to dip a croissant or tartine in coffee, otherwise breakfast can be considered a failure. For this purpose, coffee in French restaurants is served in wide cups. On a Sunday morning, you can afford a more satisfying hot breakfast of omelet with bacon and slices of baked potatoes in the peel.
The Germans prefer to start the day with ham, cheese, muffin and Marienbad croutons. To prepare them, you need to lightly dry the toast and grease them with butter. On top is a layer of rich pate-mashed liver sausage mixed with fresh grated apple. You can add here pieces of fried omelet with fragrant spices. Croutons are sprinkled with fresh herbs and immediately proceed to breakfast.
Fruit is the head of everything
For more exotic recipes, you should go to the islands, for example, to the sunny Philippines. The local cuisine has absorbed a piquant Asian identity, a practical American attitude to food and some of the European classics. For breakfast, Filipinos prefer fresh citrus fruits, grated coconut or fried zucchini with tomatoes. They often cook the beloved basmanti rice with garlic and lard. Breakfast does not make sense without seasonings: not too complex, but with a pronounced spicy taste. And in the Philippines, they reject dishes and cutlery, replacing plates with banana leaves, and forks with their own hands.
Hawaiians, as true fans of fruit, after waking up, are saturated exclusively with them. Sometimes they dilute the rainbow assortment of oranges, grapes, bananas and strawberries with a muffin. This breakfast can rightly be considered the most useful. However, there are more complicated recipes in Hawaiian cuisine. These include the original fruit omelet. To prepare it, cut the fresh pineapple into small cubes, mix with grated cheese, move all this to the baking dish and break the raw egg. Adding salt and spices to taste, we send the form to the oven for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
The Dominican-style breakfast is simple to prepare and very nutritious. This is confirmed by a traditional dish called mangu, which is a tender mashed banana with cheese, salami and eggs. A less high-calorie version, tostones, is made from pieces of fried bananas with honey or a tart butter sauce. Combine this dish best with a cup of Dominican coffee.
Breakfast with an Asian twist
The Japanese, who are prone to eccentricities, prefer to have breakfast in their own original manner – their favorite miso soup. It is prepared on the basis of broth from kombu seaweed and dried fish shavings. The additives themselves can be different: tofu cheese, boiled meat, vegetables or seafood. A constant component is the traditional Japanese miso paste. First, it is diluted in a separate bowl in a small amount of prepared broth and, after thoroughly mixing, poured into the soup. It is not forbidden to add some greens or wakame seaweed to a portion of Japanese soup.
The Chinese-style breakfast offers a variety of options. The most common of them is liquid rice porridge in combination with pickled vegetables, mushrooms or boiled meat. Often, the Chinese indulge themselves with unsweetened pastries: pies with daikon (Chinese radish), pancakes with green onions, unleavened donuts or egg rolls. An optimistic start to the day will be traditional Chinese bao tzu pies, which look like khinkali. They are prepared from yeast dough in special bamboo steamers, so that the pies are lush and airy. And they fill them with a variety of fillings: cabbage of all imaginable types, meat, shrimp and squid, tofu cheese with young garlic sprouts. Sweet lovers can enjoy bao tzu with jam or dried fruit.
Nutritionists of all stripes sing the praises of a healthy and hearty breakfast. They strongly recommend not to ignore the first meal of the day, and they should be listened to. Our recipes and your boundless imagination will help you create an unusual morning menu for every day.