Breakfast Recipes

Breakfast here means a weekday: something you can put together before the day takes over. The slower, sit-down dishes are on the brunch page instead, even where the same recipe appears on both.

Tofu Scramble and Vegan French Toast are the quickest way to eat, at about twenty-five minutes each. Vegan Pancakes take thirty-five and Vegan Chickpea Omelette about forty. Vegan Breakfast Casserole runs to forty-five and feeds six, which makes it the one to build when the table is full. Traditional Papadzules and Vegetarian Banh Cuon are weekend projects that happen to be breakfast, the papadzules an hour or so, the banh cuon closer to two.

What most of these have in common is a different answer to the same question: what replaces the egg. Tofu Scramble crumbles firm tofu, so the texture comes from the curd already being there. Vegan Chickpea Omelette pours a chickpea flour batter that sets flat in the pan, which is why it holds together as a single sheet rather than breaking into pieces. Vegan Quiche goes further again and blends silken tofu into a custard that sets in the oven. Three textures, three routes, and the choice between them is really a choice about breakfast.

Badges on each card mark vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free. Traditional Papadzules is built around chopped egg, so it is the one to read carefully if you are cooking for a vegan table, while Tofu Scramble and Vegan Breakfast Casserole are already gluten-free as written.