Egg Dishes

🇨🇾Cyprus

Patates Me Avga

Πατάτες με αυγά

Patates me avga is a Cypriot skillet dish of potatoes cooked with eggs, onion and herbs until just set.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Perico

A Venezuelan scrambled egg dish with tomatoes, onions and ají dulce, seasoned with salt and pepper, a classic breakfast served with arepas.

🇸🇮Styria (Slovenia), Slovenia

Pražene gobe z jajci

Pražene gobe z jajci are Styria mushrooms sautéed with onion and folded through softly set eggs.

🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina

Revuelto Gramajo

An Argentine dish of diced beef, onions, potatoes, and scrambled eggs, invented in Buenos Aires. A hearty, rustic meal, often served with toast or fries.

🇮🇳Goa, India

Ros omelet

रस ऑम्लेट

A soft omelet is served with a ladle of Goan coconut milk curry and bread or pav.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Scotch Egg

A boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, breadcrumbed and fried or baked, eaten cold from the fridge or hot in a pub.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Scottish Breakfast

Full Scottish breakfast

A full Scottish breakfast of bacon, link sausages, Lorne sausage, black pudding, haggis, baked beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, tattie scones, eggs and toast.

🇪🇬Egypt

Shakshuka

شكشوكة

Eggs poached in a simmering tomato, pepper, onion, garlic, and chilli sauce, with regional names and seasonings across North Africa.

🇮🇱Israel

Shakshuka

שקשוקה

Eggs poached in a pan of tomatoes, peppers, garlic and cumin, brought to the table in the pan with bread to tear into it.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Singapore Fried Radish Cake

菜头粿

Steamed radish and rice-flour cake cut into cubes and fried hard with egg, garlic and preserved radish; served white, or black with sweet dark soy

🇨🇳China

Soy Egg

卤蛋

A hard-boiled egg marinated in a sweet soy sauce broth with star anise and spices, giving it a dark, savoury, slightly sweet flavour throughout.

🇪🇸Spain

Spanish Potato Omelette

Tortilla de patatas

Spain's national dish: a thick omelette of potatoes slowly cooked in olive oil with eggs, optionally with onion, served warm or at room temperature.

🇬🇷Chania, Greece

Staka me ayga

Στάκα με αυγά

Eggs scrambled in staka — the creamy butter-fat skimmed from Cretan sheep whey — until golden, the mountain breakfast par excellence.

🇬🇷Greece

Strapatsada

Στραπατσάδα

Ionian scrambled eggs with tomato and feta.

🇱🇦Laos

Stuffed Eggs

ໄຂ່ຄວາມ

Boiled egg yolks mashed with herbs, fish sauce and chilli, spooned back into the whites and deep-fried.

🇹🇷Turkey

Sucuklu Yumurta

Sliced sucuk rendered in a hot pan until crisp at the edges, eggs cracked directly onto the sizzling sausage — the definitive Turkish breakfast pan.

🇯🇵Japan

Tamago Kake Gohan

卵かけご飯

A raw egg cracked over hot rice and mixed with soy sauce, the simplest Japanese breakfast.

🇯🇵Japan

Tamagoyaki

卵焼き

Tamagoyaki, dashi-seasoned egg rolled layer by layer in a rectangular pan, is a named Japanese dish and a benchmark of a cook's skill, not merely a sushi topping.

🇨🇳China

Tea Egg

茶叶蛋

A Chinese snack of hard-boiled eggs cracked and simmered in tea, soy sauce, star anise and spices, giving the white a marbled, brown pattern.

🇨🇳China

Tomato and Scrambled Egg

西红柿炒鸡蛋

Tomatoes cooked down with soft scrambled egg and a pinch of sugar, the first dish most Chinese people learn to make.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Torta de Patata

Torta de patata is Gibraltar’s savoury potato-and-egg pie or omelette, baked until set and sliced for serving.

🇵🇪Piura, Peru

Tortilla de Camarones

A thick shrimp omelette from the Piura coast, spiced with ají and cilantro.

🇵🇪Lambayeque, Peru

Tortilla de Raya

A Lambayeque omelet made with dried ray, eggs and herbs.

🇵🇪Peru

Tortilla de Verde Peruana

Tortilla de verde

A thick Peruvian plantain omelet, slightly sweet and fluffy, eaten as a snack or breakfast in the jungle regions.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Tukhmbiryon

Тухмбирён

Eggs fried into a thick omelette with lamb, onion and tomato and cut into wedges for breakfast.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Tunisian Tajine

Tajine

A Tunisian baked egg casserole packed with potato, cheese, meat or tuna, herbs, and spices.

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Ulster Fry

A fried breakfast distinguished by soda farl and potato bread on the plate alongside bacon, sausage, egg and both black and white pudding.

🇹🇷Turkey

Çılbır

Poached eggs served over garlic yogurt, topped with a drizzle of sizzling melted butter infused with red pepper flakes. A dish with Ottoman palace origins, çılbır has been enjoyed for centuries and is now a popular breakfast and brunch item across Turkey.