What is an American breakfast?
American breakfast is often made up of a cereal-based recipe and / or an egg-based one. However, other products are also widely used, such as pancakes, waffles and many variations of the full English breakfast (bacon, sausages, eggs, other cooked foods and a drink such as American coffee or tea) and continental (juice fruit, coffee and buttered bread and / or with jam).
Food
The American breakfast can include many different foods. Some are simple ingredients, to prepare or already prepared, others, instead, are real recipes. Let's see some of them.
What foods do you consume in an American breakfast?
American breakfast: 1st basic food group - Meat, Fish and Eggs
- Bacon : thin slices of pre-cooked bacon, sometimes smoked, to be sautéed in a pan with a knob of butter
- Breakast sausage : breakfast sausages. Inherited from the English breakfast, they should be cooked slowly in the pan, whole or open.
- Eggs : eggs, almost always whole, to cook fried or scrambled, or sometimes firm.
- Ham : it is a cooked salami to be sliced rather similar to roasted and smoked pork ham.
- Steak : beef steak.
American breakfast: II fundamental food group - Milk and Derivatives
- Milk : it is not always the same food consumed in Italy. In America there are types of milk with a much more variable percentage of skimming, even reinforced with other fats or sugar.
- Yogurt : lean or fat, flavored, also of Greek type, sometimes enriched with fruit, chocolate or oil seeds.
American breakfast: 3rd basic food group - Cereals, Potatoes and Derivatives
- Bagel : it is a kind of leavened bread with the shape of a typical Jewish-Polish donut; thanks to the massive presence of immigrants from Eastern Europe in America, the bagel has become an integral part of the American breakfast
- English muffins : English muffins, they are different from American ones and seem to have more resemblance to baked goods.
- Breakfast cereals : these are the classic cereals to be dipped in milk (for example corn flakes, muesli, oat flakes etc.), in orange juice or in fruit juice. There are many different types, for: type of cereals, presence or absence of bran, sugar, cocoa, etc.
- Cereal bar : also called granola bar, it is a sweet snak made from agglomerated cereals (almost always oats) and enriched with dehydrated fruit, oilseeds, sugar, honey, chocolate etc. Some are considered diet foods.
- Energy bar : cereal bars are often enriched with food supplements such as caffeine or other stimulants.
- Biscuit : sweet biscuit pan, it is used to accompany sweet and savory ingredients
- Dry biscuits : all types.
- Cream of wheat : it is a mixture of porridge made from wheat semolina.
- Grits : it is a kind of polenta, then coarse and then boiled ground corn flour.
- Scone : is a fast bread or cake made from wheat flour or barley or oats and water, leavened with chemical yeast, baked in the oven.
- Toast : intended as white toast bread.
American breakfast: V ° basic food group - Oils and Fats
- Butter : is the most used condiment fat in America. It becomes essential to grease any pan or cooking tool
- Milk cream : with 20% fat, it is little used but sometimes used to correct coffee or tea (little used in American breakfast)
American breakfast: VI ° -VII fundamental food group - Fruits and Vegetables sources of vitamin A
Melon, apricots, watermelon, khaki, peaches, apples, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, kiwi, pineapple, mango etc.
Typical American breakfast recipes
- Breakfast sandwiches : these are the classic sandwiches used in the American breakfast.
- Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich: it is a sandwich made from white bread, toasted bacon, fried or scrambled eggs and cheddar cheese. McDonald's Egg McMuffin is the most popular commercial version. Other variants can replace bacon with various meats or fresh meat, cheddar with other cheeses, etc.
- Egg sandwich: it is a sandwich made with boiled eggs and lettuce, sometimes enriched with some sauce.
- Bagel and cream cheese : it is nothing more than a bagel cut transversally, sometimes toasted and stuffed with cream cheese (Philadelphia type spreadable cheese)
- Biscuits and gravy : it is a sweet bread seasoned with various sauces (mushrooms, meat, pork sausage, etc., cooked with milk, flour and black pepper) cooked in a pan.
- Bread pudding : it is a dessert of stale bread, milk or cream, fatty eggs, sugar and other ingredients (such as fruit), typical of many countries also quite distant from each other (Belgium, Cuba, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands etc. ).
- Breakfast burrito : the breakfast burrito is a typical Mexican recipe based on tortilla stuffed with breakfast ingredients such as scrambled eggs, potatoes, onions, chorizo or bacon. It is also sold in some fast food restaurants like Burger King, Dunkin 'Donuts, McDonald's and Taco Bell.
- Bear claw : translated as "bear claw", it is a leavened dessert similar to the Danish biscuit. Sometimes it is stuffed with almond paste and raisins. Bear claw can also refer to a particular stuffed donut or to a type of apple pancake
- Cinnamon roll : it is a roll of sweet pasta typical of Northern Europe and North America. Contains flour, cinnamon, sugar and butter.
- Coffee cake : the coffee cake is a cake, similar to sponge cake but flavored with fruit, sour cream and cinnamon, to be eaten with coffee, soaked or flavored with the same.
- Chicken fried steak : it is a fried chicken steak, a sort of breaded cutlet, consisting of a breast of breast covered with flour, egg and breadcrumbs then dipped in fat at a suitable temperature. Looks a lot like the Austrian dish Wiener Schnitzel; abroad it is confused with the Milanese cutlet.
- Crêpes : originating from French cuisine, they have been imported to the USA in the last century. These are very thin omelettes made with whole eggs, flour and milk. Quickly cooked in a pan, they can be stuffed with sweet or savory ingredients.
- Croissant : is a typical French and Italian baked cake, single portion, based on wheat flour, eggs and butter. It can be sweet or salty, stuffed or natural.
- Danish pastry : Danish or Danish-only pasta is a puff pastry from Austria with natural origins in Denmark and exported to America.
- Donut : a real fried donut made from wheat flour, sweetened, stuffed or covered.
- Eclair : is an elongated pastry of choux pastry filled with a cream and covered with icing.
- Eggs benedict : consists of a half-cut English muffin, each of which is stuffed with Canadian bacon, ham or sometimes bacon, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.
- French toast : French toast is a dish made from bread soaked in egg beaten with milk and then fried.
- Fried eggs : they are the so-called fried eggs, fried in butter.
- Omelette : it is the same Italian recipe, with some small changes related to the area.
- Fruit salad : it is a kind of mixed fruit salad, topped with white yogurt or syrup or fruit juice.
- Hask Browns : is a recipe similar to the potato rostì. It is a kind of meatball cooked in a pan or fried with grated potatoes or cut into julienne strips.
- Home fries : they are fried potatoes in a pan or baked but cut into cubes (often previously boiled or steamed), in a rustic way, often inclusive of peel.
- Kolach : is a Slovenian and Czechoslovak recipe, more precisely a dessert, consisting of a circular base of pastry covered with chocolate or jam.
- Monkey bread : literally "monkey bread", it is a soft, sweet and sticky African-like recipe. It consists of a mass of blocks of dough covered with cinnamon, sugar, honey, etc. baked in the oven.
- American muffins : they are typical American sweets made from flour, eggs and butter, often also cocoa or chocolate chips.
- Omelette : is a typical French recipe based on beaten egg, salt, pepper and cheese, sometimes enriched with other ingredients, cooked in a pan with a particular system that keeps the heart tender.
- Pancakes : they are a kind of thin and round "pancake" cooked in the special mold, prepared from a batter made from flour, eggs, milk and butter. In North America they are leavened. They are mostly eaten with maple syrup, canned fruit, honey, fresh fruit, peanut butter, etc.
- Pigs in blankets : puff pastry rolls stuffed with whole frankfurters.
- Gravy sausage : is a dish consisting of stewed sausage whose fat is lengthened with milk, tied with flour and flavored with spices.
- Steak and eggs : beef steak with fried eggs on toast.
- Sticky bun : they are a cake made from pieces of leavened dough, sometimes containing cane sugar and cinnamon, which are then pressed together to form a kind of flat loaf corresponding to the size of the pan. Before the pasta is placed in the pan, the latter is lined with "sticky" ingredients such as maple syrup, honey (or both), nuts, sugar and butter. when cooked they are turned out of the way, so that the caramel acts as a topping.
- Strata : that of stratta is a family of dishes similar to quiche with a base of bread and appareil of eggs and cheese. It can also include meat or vegetables.
- Strudel : is a typical recipe of the Alpine area between northern Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Hungary. Today it is also widespread in America. It consists of a sweet pastry (specific or puff) filled with cooked apples, pine nuts, raisins, cinnamon and other ingredients.
- Toaster strudel : has little to do with traditional strudel. It is a packaged food, frozen, made with pasta stuffed with topping or fruit and cheese jelly.
- Turnover : is a type of food similar to a calzone, made with puff pastry stuffed with various ingredients and baked.
- Waffle : it is a wafer batter cooked between two molded plates to give a characteristic shape. Typical Belgian dish, it is often served with topping, maple syrup, honey or fruit.
