Egg Dishes

🇩🇰Denmark

Aegekage

Flæskeggekage

Oven-baked egg-and-bacon cake with chives, a brunch/lunch dish.

🇮🇹Molise, Italy

Affunnatielle

Affunnatielle is a named Italian egg dish from Molise, built around its defining ingredient and cooked in a specific local style; the texture, seasoning, and serving form distinguish the dish.

🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

Anglesey Eggs

Anglesey eggs combine mashed potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, and leeks under a cheese sauce.

🇧🇭Bahrain

Baid Tmat

بيد طماط

Bahraini scrambled eggs with tomatoes — a simple breakfast dish where 'baid' means eggs and 'tmat' means tomatoes, cooked together into a soft, savoury scramble.

🇲🇹Malta

Balbuljata

Eggs scrambled loosely with tomato, onion, garlic and sometimes capers and parsley, eaten with Maltese bread.

🇫🇷France

Berlinguettes d’Avignon

Berlinguettes d’Avignon are halved eggs filled with a seasoned anchovy-and-herb mixture and baked until set.

🇵🇪Peru

Bistec a lo Pobre

A hearty plate of garlic-rubbed steak topped with fried eggs, served with fried onions, potatoes, and rice. 'Poor man's steak' that's anything but poor.

🇬🇪Guria, Georgia

Brinjula

Ბრინჯულა

A Gurian cheese omelette with a thin dough base, similar to a khachapuri, combining eggs, cheese and a crisp pastry bottom.

🇪🇸Madrid, Spain

Broken Eggs

Huevos rotos

Fried potatoes topped with fried eggs that are cut open so the yolks run over the potatoes, often with jamon, a Madrid classic.

🇮🇹Sardinia, Italy

Cassola

Cassola is a named Italian egg dish from Sardinia, built around its defining ingredient and cooked in a specific local style; the texture, seasoning, and serving form distinguish the dish.

🇨🇳China

Century Egg

皮蛋

Duck egg cured in alkaline clay, ash and salt for weeks until the white turns to dark amber jelly and the yolk to grey-green cream.

🇲🇼Malawi

Chips Mayai

French fries bound with beaten egg on a hot griddle, a Malawian and East African street supper.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Chipsi Mayai

Chips fried, then bound with beaten egg in the pan into a thick omelette and cut into wedges, served with chilli sauce.

🇺🇸United States

Creamed Eggs on Toast

Hard-boiled eggs sliced into a creamy white sauce, served over toast — a vintage Midwestern breakfast.

🇫🇷Provence, France

Crespeou

Crespeou is a Provençal layered omelet made from several thin egg rounds colored with herbs and vegetables.

🇺🇸United States

Denver Omelet

A fluffy omelet folded around diced ham, bell pepper, onion, and cheese — also called a Western omelet.

🇺🇸United States

Deviled Eggs

Halved hard-boiled eggs with the yolks mashed with mayonnaise, mustard, and seasonings, piped back in.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Dutch Ham-and-Egg Sandwich

Uitsmijter

Uitsmijter is an open Dutch sandwich of bread, ham, and fried eggs, often finished with cheese.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Easter Stuffing

Velikonoční nádivka

Herbed bread-and-egg stuffing with smoked meat, served with the Easter roast.

🇸🇪Scania, Sweden

Egg Cake

Äggakaka

Traditional Scanian dish similar to a thick pancake or omelette, served with fried pork and lingonberries.

🇮🇳Kerala, India

Egg Roast

മുട്ട രോസ്റ്റ്

A Kerala dish of boiled eggs in a spicy onion-tomato roast with curry leaves. Served with appam or parotta.

🇵🇭Philippines

Eggplant Scramble

Poqui-Poqui

An Ilocano dish of roasted eggplant, scrambled with eggs, tomatoes, onions, and bagoong.

🇺🇸United States

Eggs Benedict

Poached eggs and Canadian bacon on toasted English muffins, draped in silky hollandaise sauce.

🇺🇸United States

Eggs Florentine

Poached eggs on a bed of sautéed spinach, draped in hollandaise — an eggs-Benedict variation.

🇺🇸United States

Eggs Hussarde

A New Orleans brunch dish of poached eggs on rusks or toast with ham and marchand de vin sauce.

🇺🇸United States

Eggs Neptune

Poached eggs on toast with crabmeat or lobster and hollandaise.

🇺🇸United States

Eggs Sardou

A New Orleans brunch classic of poached eggs over artichoke bottoms and creamed spinach with hollandaise.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Eggy Bread

The British version of French toast, made by soaking bread in egg, milk and sugar, pan-frying in butter and serving with jam or cinnamon sugar.

🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea

Egusi Seed Omelette

Tortilla de calabaza

A Spanish-style omelette fusion with African egusi (pumpkin) seeds in the batter, cooked in groundnut or palm oil with onion; a uniquely Equatoguinean fusion dish.

🇱🇾Libya

Ejja

A thick set omelette of egg with potato, tomato, chilli and a great deal of parsley and coriander, cut in wedges.

🇪🇷Asmara, Eritrea

Eritrean Frittata

Frittata

Italian-style frittata adapted in Eritrea; an open-faced omelette with vegetables, herbs, and sometimes leftover stews; a legacy of colonial cuisine; served in cafes and homes; a simple, versatile dish.

🇾🇪Yemen

Fatoot

Torn flatbread fried in ghee with eggs and sometimes tomato until it crisps at the edges.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Flamenco-Style Eggs

Huevos a la flamenca

Huevos a la flamenca are eggs baked with tomato, peppers, peas, and chorizo in an Andalusian dish.

🇬🇷South Aegean, Greece

Fourtalia

Φουρταλιά

Andros potato-and-sausage omelette.

🇭🇷Istria, Croatia

Fritaja

Frtalja

Istrian herb omelette, thick with wild herbs — most importantly wild asparagus in spring — cooked flat in a pan and cut in wedges.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Full English Breakfast

A fried plate of bacon, sausage, egg, black pudding, grilled tomato, mushrooms and baked beans, with fried bread or toast and a mug of tea.