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English breakfast recipes - 5 recipes

By Laurapackham

Good morning! I made you cholesterol!
So perhaps a Full English Breakfast isn’t the healthiest recipe to start your day – but let’s not kid ourselves – this traditional dish is about rewarding yourself, because every now and then you deserve salty bacon, soft crisp hash browns, fluffy scrambled eggs and a big cup of tea. This splendid national dish is also steeped in history over many centuries. It reached its height in popularity in the Victorian era, when fine breakfasts were served from silver in grandiose English country houses. Now the delicious meal is be served at any good pub as an “all-day breakfast” or at my house on any given Sunday.
So go on and enjoy some of life’s simple pleasures.
Tip: For the best English breakfast, ask your butcher for sausages with a high-meat content and the best streaky bacon available.
Try: Try not to mess too much with perfection. A proper fry-up is a very personal thing so pick and choose what suits your palate.
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No better way to start your weekend than with this classic English Breakfast, made to share

  • 2 sausages
  • 2 bacon
  • 2 eggs
  • punnet of mushrooms
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 can of Heinz baked beans
  • 2 bread rolls
  • 1/2 onion
3.4/5 (157 Votes)

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Lay the bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes on a foil-lined tray

  • 4 rashers good-quality lean unsmoked back bacon
  • 4 brown-cap portabello mushrooms
  • 12-16 cherry tomatoes on the vine, room temperature
  • 6 tsp olive oil
  • 2 slices granary or wholegrain bread, cut on the diagonal
  • 2 good-quality free-range pork sausages, minimum 86% pork
  • 2 free-range, omega-3 rich eggs, room temperature
  • few drops cider vinegar
  • 2 x 100ml / 3½ fl oz glasses freshly-squeezed orange juice, plus 1 orange cut into wedges
  • handful fresh blueberries (about 50g/2oz)
3.4/5 (133 Votes)

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Lay the bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes on a foil-lined tray

  • 4 rashers good-quality lean unsmoked back bacon
  • 4 brown-cap portabello mushrooms
  • 12-16 cherry tomatoes on the vine, room temperature
  • 6 tsp olive oil
  • 2 slices bread cut on the diagonal
  • 2 good-quality free-range pork sausages, minimum 86% pork
  • 2 free-range, omega-3 rich eggs, room temperature
  • few drops cider vinegar
  • 1 cup Baked beans
  • 1 large potato
  • Cake tin
  • small mason jar
  • Potato ricer or garlic press
5/5 (2 Votes)

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Peel and grate the potatoes and onion

  • Bacon/sausages
  • Eggs
  • Toast
  • Potatoes (2 or 3 per person) and onions (1 for two people)
3.4/5 (73 Votes)

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a good old hearty full english

  • bacon bacon either smoked or plain
  • fresh free range egg
  • baked beans
  • plum tomatoes
  • bread to toast brown wholemeal or white
1.8/5 (9 Votes)

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