Egg Dishes

🇮🇪Ireland

Full Irish Breakfast

Bricfeasta Éireannach

A hearty Irish breakfast of rashers, sausages, eggs, black and white pudding, beans, tomatoes, and mushrooms, a daily and cultural icon.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Funšterc

Funšterc is a Central Sava savoury egg pancake made with flour, eggs and cracklings until set and browned.

🇬🇪Georgia

Georgian Baked Eggs

Ჩირბული

Eggs cooked into a base of tomato, walnut, onion and coriander until just set, served in the pan for breakfast.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Gondo Datshi

སྒོང་རྡོག་དར་ཚིལ།

Eggs scrambled into melting cheese with chilli and spring onion, a quick breakfast version of the datshi principle.

🇲🇽Mexico

Gorditas de huevos

Corn cakes stuffed with a scrambled-egg filling.

🇰🇷South Korea

Gyeran mari (Rolled Omelet)

계란말이

Gyeran mari is a rolled layered omelette sliced into rounds and served as banchan, anju, or a lunchbox side.

🇺🇸United States

Hangtown Fry

A Gold Rush-era omelet of oysters and bacon — the Hangtown (Placerville) specialty.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Herb Kükü

Kükü

Herb Kükü is an Azerbaijani skillet omelette packed with chopped greens and herbs, set into a tender slice rather than built around eggplant.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Hong Kong Scrambled Eggs

Saan Chaan Daan

Cha chaan teng eggs whisked with a little stock or milk and folded soft and loose — the benchmark is custard, not curd.

🇩🇪Berlin, Germany

Hoppelpoppel

Hoppelpoppel is a Berlin skillet of fried potatoes, onion and leftover meat bound with softly set eggs.

🇲🇽Mexico

Huevos a la Mexicana

Scrambled eggs cooked with tomato, onion, and green chile — the classic Mexican breakfast.

🇲🇽Mexico

Huevos ahogados

'Drowned eggs': poached or fried eggs simmered in a chile-tomato sauce.

🇲🇽Mexico

Huevos divorciados

'Divorced eggs': two fried eggs, one in red salsa, one in green, separated by a strip of beans.

🇨🇺Cuba

Huevos habaneros

Havana-style eggs baked in a piquant tomato sauce with onions, peppers, and peas, often served with white rice.

🇲🇽Mexico

Huevos migas

Scrambled eggs with crisp tortilla pieces stirred in until soft.

🇲🇽Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Huevos Motuleños

A Yucatán breakfast of fried eggs on tortillas with black beans, ham, peas, and fried plantain.

🇲🇽Mexico

Huevos Rancheros

Fried eggs on corn tortillas, bathed in a cooked tomato-chile ranchera sauce, often served with beans.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Iron Eggs

鐵蛋

Quail or chicken eggs braised in soy and spices and air-dried repeatedly over days until they shrink to dark, dense, chewy nuggets.

🇮🇩Jakarta, Indonesia

Kerak telor

Kerak telor, duck-egg-and-rice crust cooked over coals on a portable brazier and flipped to the flame, is Jakarta's defining Betawi street dish and a distinctive technique.

🇹🇭Thailand

Khai Chiao

ไข่เจียว

Golden Thai-style omelet with crispy edges, served over jasmine rice with chili sauce.

🇮🇷Iran

Kookoo Sabzi

کوکو سبزی

Dense herb frittata with far more chopped herbs than egg, plus barberries and walnut, fried flat and cut in wedges.

🇹🇬Togo

Kosua ne Meko

A popular Togolese street snack of hard-boiled eggs cut open and filled with a spicy relish of fresh tomato, onion, green chilli, and salt; quick, cheap, and fiery.

🇧🇳Brunei

Kuih Calak Beef

Kuih Calak

A savoury Bruneian kuih made by griddling a flour-and-egg batter with minced beef, coconut milk, curry spices, onion and chilli in small moulds.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kvrgusa

Kvrguša

Kvrguša is a Krajina bake of chicken set into a cornmeal-and-egg batter until the edges brown.

🇺🇸United States

Mass Confusion

A Denver diner breakfast: biscuits and gravy topped with eggs, cheddar, and bacon, invented at the Denver Diner.

🇸🇧Central Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal / Malaita / Makira), Solomon Islands

Megapode Egg

Megapode eggs are gathered from legal, managed nesting sites on Savo and cooked as a seasonal Solomon Islands food; the unusually large egg has a rich yolk.

🇹🇷Aegean Region, Turkey

Menemen

A traditional Turkish egg dish made by scrambling eggs with tomatoes, green peppers, and onions in olive oil. Often served directly in the pan with crusty bread for dipping. It is a popular breakfast item across Turkey, named after the town of Menemen near İzmir.

🇵🇸Palestine

Mfarrakeh

مفركة

Cubed potatoes fried in olive oil or ghee with scrambled eggs, cumin, and pepper, garnished with coriander — a simple Palestinian breakfast or light meal.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Mish-Mash

Миш-маш

A Bulgarian scrambled egg dish with roasted peppers, tomatoes, onions, sirene cheese and sometimes feta, cooked in one pan.

🇦🇩Andorra

Mushroom Omelette

Truites de carreroles

An Andorran mushroom omelette made with carreroles, a local wild mushroom; eggs beaten and cooked with the mushrooms in olive oil; a TasteAtlas must-try; reflects the Pyrenean tradition of foraging wild mushrooms in autumn; simple, earthy, and deeply flavorful; served as a main or tapa; found at bordes and traditional restaurants during mushroom season.

🇲🇽Mexico

Nopales con huevo

Cactus paddles diced and scrambled with eggs, tomato, and onion.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Ojja

عجة

Tomatoes and peppers cooked down with harissa and garlic, with merguez or prawns added and eggs broken in at the end.

🇬🇧London, United Kingdom

Omelette Arnold Bennett

Omelette Arnold Bennett is a softly set omelette with smoked haddock, cream, and Parmesan, finished under heat.

🇯🇵Japan

Onsen tamago

温泉卵

Onsen tamago, eggs cooked slowly in hot-spring water to a set yolk and loose white, is a named Japanese item tied to specific onsen towns where visitors cook them in the source.

🇨🇳Tainan, China

Oyster Omelette

海蛎煎

Small oysters cooked into a sweet potato starch batter with egg and garlic chives, fried until the edges crisp and the middle stays gelatinous.

🇲🇹Malta

Pasta Omelette

Froġa tat-tarja

Leftover thin pasta bound with beaten egg and cheese and fried into a flat cake, cut into wedges.