These New Years Day breakfast recipes will ensure you start the year right. We’ve got New Year’s Day breakfast ideas to match the most popular New Year’s resolutions. Whether you’re resolving to get more healthy, spend more time with loved ones, live life to the fullest, learn a new skill, travel more, or save money, we’ve got breakfast suggestions for you for New Years Day.
If you’re looking for New Year’s Day breakfast ideas and like billions of other people around the world who make New Year’s resolutions each year – I make my list every New Year’s morning – I’ve got a list of New Years Day breakfast recipes for you to match your New Year’s resolutions, to make sure you kick the year off right. Planning to sleep in or entertaining friends ? We also have on New Years Day brunch menu ideas.
Although the order appears to change a little each year, as we all adjust our priorities in life, according to my research, the most popular New Year’s resolutions are to exercise more, lose weight, get organised, learn a new skill or hobby, live life to the fullest, save more money or spend less money, quit smoking, spend more time with family and friends, travel more, and read more.
I pretty much put most of those resolutions on my list every year. Although spending time with loved-ones usually tops my list of priorities, this year my top priority is getting back to my husband in Cambodia, who I’m missing like crazy, having been in Australia caring for my mum. How about you? Do you make New Year’s resolutions?
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New Years Day Breakfast Recipes to Match Your New Years Resolutions
Here are our New Years Day breakfast ideas for you to match your New Year’s resolutions.
Spend More Time with Loved Ones – French Toast and Pancakes
I’m desperately missing my husband Terence back home in Cambodia, who I haven’t seen since I had to return to Australia after my mum was given a notice to vacate her home, and I’ve been here ever since taking care of her. I’m dreaming of all the delicious things I’ll cook for him when I get back. I’m also missing my dad and grandparents and family meals we all used to enjoy together over the holidays.
This French toast recipe was a family favourite that my Russian-Ukrainian grandmother used to make for holiday breakfasts when I was a child, so it’s topping my list of New Years Day breakfast recipes. It’s definitely one for those of you for whom New Year’s Day breakfast is a sweet breakfast. And if it isn’t, we also have a savoury French toast recipe for you, below.
Russian French Toast Recipe for Grenki Just Like My Russian Grandmother Made
This savoury French toast recipe makes classic French toast – fried bread that’s been soaked in a beaten egg and milk mixture – flavoured with garlic, onion, sea salt, pepper, and a little chilli, piled with pan-fried cherry tomatoes, feta cheese and fragrant dill.
Savoury French Toast Recipe With Pan-Fried Cherry Tomatoes, Feta Cheese and Fresh Herbs
Lose Weight – A Healthyish Breakfast Salad
My pick of New Years Day breakfast recipes for those of you who have made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight is this healthy-ish breakfast salad. Healthy-ish because it’s still a holiday, right?
It’s a salad of crispy lettuce leaves topped with soft boiled eggs, avocado slices, crispy bacon, sautéed mushrooms, sweet cherry tomatoes, and bright tangy pickles.
If you’re feeding a crowd on New Year’s Day (and if you are, see our Christmas ideas for feeding a crowd here), then you could make a big platter of this and leave it on the buffet table or portion it in the kitchen and distribute in bowls.
Best Breakfast Salad Recipe with Soft Boiled Eggs, Bacon, Avocado, Sautéed Mushrooms, and Pickles
Travel More – Breakfast from Your Dream Destinations
As a travel writer who was grounded during the pandemic, I gained a greater appreciation of how food can transport us to faraway places, whether they’re some of our favourite places that we’re keen to return to, or places to which we’re dreaming of travelling for the first time.
So my advice for New Years Day breakfast recipes for those of you who have made a New Year’s resolution to travel more now the pandemic is well and truly over, is to browse our 15 year-old Weekend Eggs archive of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world. But I’ll give you a few recipe ideas for now…
Dreaming of travelling to Japan? Well, you should take a look at our local guide to winter in Japan and insider guide to things to do in Japan in winter. Then you should make this katsudon recipe for one of the most deliciously-comforting donburi or rice bowl meals.
Terence’s katsudon recipe makes a crunchy Japanese pork cutlet, cooked in eggs and spring onions, served atop a bowl of rice and sprinkled with slices of scallions, and it’s one of the most popular egg recipes on the site.
Katsudon Recipe for a Japanese Pork Cutlet and Egg Rice Bowl for Weekend Eggs
If, like me, you’re dreaming of travelling to Mexico then make my easy Mexican green chilaquiles recipe with fried eggs, shredded chicken and green salsa for chilaquiles verdes, inspired by the chilaquiles I became addicted to at Café la Blanca in Mexico City many years ago.
Mexican Chilaquiles Recipe with Fried Eggs, Shredded Chicken and Green Salsa for Chilaquiles Verdes
If a holiday in Thailand is on your travel wish list, then make our Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao? It makes an addictive salad of crispy fried eggs with sweet tomatoes, purple shallots, crunchy peanuts, fragrant coriander and chillies, and it’s a fantastic salad for sharing.
Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao, a Deliciously Addictive Crispy Fried Egg Salad
Singapore or Malaysia? It’s hard to beat this half-boiled eggs recipe, which makes the quintessential kopitiam breakfast in Singapore and Malaysia or classic kopitiam eggs tailor-made for having with kaya toast in a Singaporean or Malaysian coffee shop.
Half Boiled Eggs Recipe for Classic Kopitiam Eggs to Go With Your Kaya Toast
Live Life to the Fullest – Decadent Seafood Breakfasts
If living life to the fullest is one of your New Year’s resolutions, then I’ve got some decadent New Years Day breakfast recipes for you. This Southeast Asian crab omelette recipe is another of our most popular egg recipes and it’s not hard to see why. Packed with luxurious fresh crab meat, it makes a truly decadent weekend eggs dish.
If fresh crab meat is a little too luxe, what about this Russian buckwheat pancakes recipe for blini with smoked salmon, dill, sour cream, and a ‘caviar’ of gherkin and radish. You can always plop dollops of proper caviar on top.
Russian Buckwheat Pancakes Recipe for Blini with Smoked Salmon, Dill and Sour Cream
Exercise More – Carb-Loaded Breakfast Ideas
My recommendation for New Years Day breakfast recipes for those of you who have made a New Year’s resolution to exercise more is to start loading those carbs right now, especially if you’re planning an exercise regime anything like that of my husband, who is at the gym twice a day.
How about this eggs, potatoes and chorizo breakfast skillet recipe for our take on an American breakfast classic, the country skillet breakfast – or cowboy skillet breakfast or farmer’s skillet breakfast – cooked in a cast iron skillet?
Eggs Potatoes and Chorizo Breakfast Skillet Recipe for a Twist on a Classic American Breakfast
This fried eggs with potatoes and chorizo recipe for Basque style ‘messy eggs’ is another carb-loaded breakfast. It’s also a perfect hangover cure that’s made for a late breakfast after a long night, so if you’re planning to have a big one tonight, then you might want to fill the fridge with these ingredients now. Happy new year!
Fried Eggs with Chorizo and Potatoes Recipe for Basque Style ‘Messy Eggs’
Please do let us know in the comments below if you make any of our New Years Day breakfast recipes to match your New Year’s resolutions as we’d love to hear how they turned out for you.
