🍳 Full English breakfast
A full English breakfast is a hearty plate of fried or grilled bacon, sausages and eggs, served with baked beans, grilled tomato, fried mushrooms and toast. Salty, savoury and filling, it combines crisp, soft and saucy textures on one plate. It is a weekend and hotel-breakfast classic, usually with a mug of tea, and is often called a fry-up.
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What it is made of
Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 rashers back bacon
- 4 pork sausages
- 2 eggs
- 200 g baked beans
- 2 tomatoes, halved
- 150 g mushrooms, sliced
- 2 slices bread, toasted
- 1 tbsp oil
Method
- Grill or fry the sausages over medium heat for 12–15 minutes, turning, until cooked through.
- Add the bacon and tomato halves to the grill or pan for 5–6 minutes.
- Fry the mushrooms in the oil for 4–5 minutes and warm the beans in a small pan.
- Fry the eggs in the same pan, toast the bread and serve everything together.
How to make it lighter
- Grill the bacon, sausages and tomatoes instead of frying them.
- Drop one item such as the sausage or toast — choose your favourites rather than having everything.
- Have extra tomatoes and mushrooms, and poach the eggs instead of frying them.
History
The cooked breakfast is often traced to the English country gentry, and by the early 20th century it had become a working-class staple served in cafés across Britain. Regional versions exist throughout the British Isles, including the Scottish, Irish and Welsh breakfasts.
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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →