Weekend Eggs

Every place has a breakfast eggs dish that locals love. In this Weekend Eggs series, which we kicked off when we launched Grantourismo on New Year’s Day 2010, we recreate and reinterpret the quintessential breakfast eggs dishes we loved. If you enjoy this series, look out for our Weekend Eggs book in 2022.

Easy Oyakodon Recipe for a Japanese Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl for Weekend Eggs

By Terence Carter|

This easy oyakodon recipe makes a Japanese chicken and egg rice bowl made from eggs, spring onions and chicken simmered in dashi and served on steamed rice. A comforting, filling dish, oyakodon – which means ‘parent and child bowl’; ‘parent’ being the chicken and ‘child’ the egg – is both a home-cooked meal and fast-food ...

Eggs Potatoes and Chorizo Breakfast Skillet Recipe for a Twist on a Classic American Breakfast

By Terence Carter|

This eggs potatoes and chorizo breakfast skillet recipe makes our favourite take on the classic American country skillet breakfast made in a cast iron skillet that’s also called a cowboy skillet breakfast or farmer’s skillet breakfast. Instead of bacon or ham, we make this hearty breakfast with spicy chorizo sausage and specifically soft Mexican-style chorizo. ...

12 Most Popular Weekend Eggs Recipes in 12 Years – Your All-Time Top Eggs Recipes on Grantourismo

By Lara Dunston|

Our 12 most popular Weekend Eggs recipes in 12 years of Grantourismo include recipes for everything from a Vietnamese crab omelette recipe and a Balinese style burbur ayam with omelette to an egg foo young recipe for the original Cantonese eggs and a half-boiled eggs recipe for classic kopitiam style eggs from Singapore and Malaysia. ...

Best Spanish Potato Omelette Recipe with Chorizo for Tortilla de Patatas con Chorizo

By Terence Carter|

Our Spanish omelette recipe with chorizo makes Spain’s traditional potato omelette known as tortilla española or tortilla de patatas, only with a little spicy Spanish chorizo added to the classic Spanish potato omelette recipe of eggs, potatoes and onions, so it’s a tortilla de patatas con chorizo. It’s so delicious and so perfect for holiday ...

9 Christmas Breakfast Recipes for Elegant Light Christmas Breakfasts That Won’t Spoil Christmas Lunch

By Lara Dunston|

Our best Christmas breakfast recipes make elegant, light Christmas Day breakfasts for those who find Christmas casseroles too heavy. If you like Christmas morning to be a bit special and pop open a bottle of bubbly, then put one of our Christmas breakfast dishes on your Christmas Day menu and save the Christmas casserole recipe ...

21 Best Breakfast Eggs Recipes of 2021 from our Weekend Eggs Breakfast Series

By Lara Dunston|

Our 21 best breakfast eggs recipes of 2021 from our Weekend Eggs series of breakfast egg dishes from around the world is a collection of the most popular new breakfast egg recipes published in 2021 that you searched for, visited, read, and loved to cook this year. This compilation of this year's best breakfast eggs ...

Indonesian Egg Curry Recipe with Fragrant Lemongrass and Funky Shrimp Paste for Telur Petis from Java

By Lara Dunston|

This Indonesian egg curry recipe with fragrant lemongrass and funky shrimp paste for telur petis comes from the Indonesian island of Java although variations can be found right across the archipelago. This rendition makes a gently-spiced boiled egg curry that’s eaten as breakfast and a snack, but the spiced eggs are also used to decorate ...

Padang Style Eggs Recipe for Gulai Telur Pedang, a Spicy Coconut Egg Curry from Sumatra

By Lara Dunston|

This Padang style eggs recipe for gulai telur Pedang makes a spicy coconut milk-based egg curry from the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Made with boiled eggs simmered in coconut milk and an aromatic spice paste pounded from fresh galangal, turmeric, ginger, garlic, shallots and chillies, this fragrant egg curry is served with crispy shallots and ...

Egg Foo Young with Gravy Recipe for the Chinese American Crispy Omelette That’s a Takeout Favourite

By Lara Dunston|

This egg foo young with gravy recipe makes the Chinese American restaurant specialty of crispy omelettes doused in gravy and sprinkled with scallions, sesame seeds and bean sprouts. Served with rice, the fantastic, filling omelette can be eaten for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner and is just as delicious as the Cantonese original. A few ...

Best Breakfast Salad Recipe with Soft Boiled Eggs, Bacon, Avocado, Sautéed Mushrooms, and Pickles

By Lara Dunston|

Our best breakfast salad recipe makes a healthy-ish breakfast salad with soft boiled eggs, avocado, crispy bacon, mushrooms sautéed in the bacon juices, crunchy lettuce, sweet cherry tomatoes, and bright tangy pickles. It’s for those of you who can’t decide between a healthy breakfast or comforting bacon and eggs and it’s this week’s edition of ...

Breakfast Nachos Recipe with Fried Egg, Avocado, Escabeche, Chilli and Spicy Salsa

By Lara Dunston|

Our breakfast nachos recipe with fried egg, avocado, escabeche, chilli and spicy salsa makes a cheesy nachos topped with homemade Mexican escabeche or mixed vegetable pickles, vegetarian bean chilli, spicy tomato salsa, avocado slices, and sour cream. It makes a fun, filling weekend brunch if you’re in need of comfort food – or a hangover ...

Egg Foo Young Recipe for the Original Cantonese Style Crispy Omelette Fu Yong Dan

By Terence Carter|

This egg foo young recipe makes the original Cantonese style egg foo young – or egg foo yung and egg fu yung in English and fu yong dan or fuyong dan in Cantonese – a deliciously crispy omelette filled with pork, spring onions and bean sprouts, that originated in Southern China in the 18th century ...