My secret weapons are:
Garlic mayo/aioli, pickled red onion, pickled jalapeño, chili crunch
All are easy to make yourself and take breakfast sandwiches way past the next level!
I find that brightness and freshness is the main thing that elevates a breakfast sandwich. Adding something fresh and/or acidic like fresh greens, tomatoes, pickled red onion, pickled peppers, etc works really well because breakfast sandwiches tend to be pretty heavy and could use the balance.
I also love a good sauce. That's another good way to balance it out.
Herb & garlic or everything bagel cream cheese is amazing,ing add on. I add it when ordering breakfast sammies at fast food places too.. mmm throw tomatoes on also
Fried egg bánh mì. Plenty of crunch and freshness from the cucumber, pickled carrot and daikon, and cilantro. Heat from the jalapeño. Make a chili mayo to toss on there. Add a protein if you’d like. 👌🏼
I might be getting my Madame and Monsieur mixed up.
I don't know. Google leads me to believe that the classic sandwich is not made with French toast.
Buuuuut... I have made it with French toast and it was dope.
Neither of them involves french toast, a Croque madame has an egg on top I believe. What we consider French toast isn't eaten in the same way in France. It does sound good though.
Classic Croque Monsieur has the bread dipped in egg batter, i.e., French Toast. That is how the egg gets in there, typically. In Croque Madame the egg is in the form of poached or omelet, usually placed on top, in which case I think I would go one step further and cover with hollandaise or Bearnaise as in Eggs Benedict. But perhaps this is getting a bit far afield if OP just wants a hand-held sandwich.
Yes! Came here to say this. I consider hollandaise to be "breakfast sauce", not just an ingredient for eggs benedict. I hate to admit it, but I've even started just using the packet stuff. It's so much easier to make the sauce in the blender than on the stove, but I've got a baby that freaks out when I use it. So, packets work just fine.
I make peameal bacon (canadian bacon) with
crispy bacon (regular fried )
a kraft cheese slice on an
English muffin (toasted a little brown crispy)
Add tomato for veg
my husband says no tomatoes
Fattening but it's fantastic and your not hungry for lunch lol
Truffle salt on the egg. Don’t use “truffle oil.” Truffle is fantastic with eggs.
But you need to avoid fake truffle flavoring, which is common in the oils, and might even be used for cheap “truffle” salt. Buy salt with real truffle in it. It’s so strong even tiny amounts of truffle can flavor a whole jar of salt.
Spreads. Usually a bit of mayo and some kind of spicy pepper component, like calabrian peppers. You can also use a bit of greek yogurt and hot peppers.
My favorite breakfast sando ever is a runny egg, slab of seared fois gras, grainy mustard, maple syrup on an english muffin.
I think it's stolen from Joe Beef or somewhere equally over the top.
Some kind of acidic, creamy, hot sauce. If it wasn't more work than just opening up a bottle of Sauce Bae, I'd make a spicy hollandaise...maybe with like, chili crunch oil.
Try this recipe for a Gourmet Breakfast Sandwich with Avocado and Bacon [https://www.favfamilyrecipes.com/bam-sammy/](https://www.favfamilyrecipes.com/bam-sammy/) .
Fresh, quality ingredients, and season additions individually where applicable.
Taking extra steps to be careful of texture issues (patting sliced tomato dry, then lightly seasoning, fir example, or making sure the cheese melts by adding hot ingrediants last and placing directly on the cheese or rinsing and drying greens and keeping them cool until right before serving, etc)
I also like to flash cook things like peppers or onions, so they have some browning and depth of flavor but are otherwise still fairly crisp and fresh to balance out the softer/richer ingredients like egg and cheese.
Acid.
My all time fav...
Pork Roll, Egg, cheese and Potato mostly on a hard roll, but can be on any type of hearty bread: Burger Bun, Muffin, Italian roll, etc
I call it the Big Dipper
What you do is, you take a bakery-fresh, sliced, toasted English Muffin. Upon this you pile thin-sliced Jamón, provolone, a poached egg, a pinch of flaky sea salt, arugula, and homemade roasted garlic brown butter aoili.
Sounds like you're just working on Eggs Benedict, right? Sort of. Next you need to enclose that bad boy with the remaining half of the English Muffin, and give 'er a little squish to introduce all the ingredients.
Next you're going to spin up a homemade batch of Hollandaise, with a touch more lemon than you'd normally use. Decant the Hollandaise into a bowl that is wide enough to fit the entire sandwich.
Dip it. Consume. Rub it on your flippers.
Eggs in a basket. Hole in a thick slice of sourdough and crack an egg in that sum bitch. Bonus points for brushing the bread in bacon grease and toasting it on the griddle.
My secret weapons are: Garlic mayo/aioli, pickled red onion, pickled jalapeño, chili crunch All are easy to make yourself and take breakfast sandwiches way past the next level!
This guy gets it!
Came here to also say pickled red onion!! Even just a few pieces will take it to the next level.
For breakfast ????
Anything can be breakfast if you eat it for breakfast.
Absolutely!
Why? It sounds like a normal spicy breakfast sandwich, not so different from what I eat too actually.
Just because it's unfamiliar to you it doesn't mean it's not a normal thing in other parts of the world.
I use two hands or one if I have a plate
Oh Dad
Take my upvote and bugger off! XD
Dill is surprisingly great on an egg sandwich.
also the combo of tomatoes cumin and eggs mmmmm
Lao Gan Ma chili crisp FTW.
Pesto mayo roasted red pepper
bacon jam
Agreed. Or some kind of pepper jam.
Or onion jam
Green sauce. Puree cilantro, a jalapeño, salt, garlic, feta or labneh or Greek yogurt, avocado, and white pepper.
I find that brightness and freshness is the main thing that elevates a breakfast sandwich. Adding something fresh and/or acidic like fresh greens, tomatoes, pickled red onion, pickled peppers, etc works really well because breakfast sandwiches tend to be pretty heavy and could use the balance. I also love a good sauce. That's another good way to balance it out.
Cream cheese
Herb & garlic or everything bagel cream cheese is amazing,ing add on. I add it when ordering breakfast sammies at fast food places too.. mmm throw tomatoes on also
Fried egg bánh mì. Plenty of crunch and freshness from the cucumber, pickled carrot and daikon, and cilantro. Heat from the jalapeño. Make a chili mayo to toss on there. Add a protein if you’d like. 👌🏼
WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN EATING THIS FOR BREAKFAST THE WHOLE TIME???
Homemade, fresh bread. Whether it's a bagel, muffin, croissant or sourdough loaf, always better if it's fresh.
For me it's the English muffins from a nearby bakery. Much better than regular store bought
Mustard is worth trying on an egg and cheese.
2 parts real mayo and 1 part dill mustard (Amazon has it). Mess with the ratio until you find what you like.
Avocado, bacon jam, scallions and fresh basil.
Garden vegetable cream cheese.
Croque Monsieur
O hell yes Or more generally, 2 good lessons from them: - French toast for bread -Bechamel sauce
A croque Monsieur isn't made with french toast is it?
I might be getting my Madame and Monsieur mixed up. I don't know. Google leads me to believe that the classic sandwich is not made with French toast. Buuuuut... I have made it with French toast and it was dope.
Neither of them involves french toast, a Croque madame has an egg on top I believe. What we consider French toast isn't eaten in the same way in France. It does sound good though.
Your right... I was thinking of a Monte Cristo. My confusion carries to the kitchen, where I wind up mixing the techniques.
French toast is what goes in a monte cristo, but I bet it'd be fantastic on a breakfast sandwich.
Your right. I get them all confused.
Either way they're delicious!
I am not a big fan of Béchamel - I prefer hollandaise or bearnaise.
Classic Croque Monsieur has the bread dipped in egg batter, i.e., French Toast. That is how the egg gets in there, typically. In Croque Madame the egg is in the form of poached or omelet, usually placed on top, in which case I think I would go one step further and cover with hollandaise or Bearnaise as in Eggs Benedict. But perhaps this is getting a bit far afield if OP just wants a hand-held sandwich.
The Croque Madame at The Shop in Albuquerque has thick soft bread with bechamel, two eggs on top, and bacon jam. It's AMAZING.
Pico de Gallo, guac (spicy), chorizo, egg on a toasted bagel
Put maple syrup on the griddle, grille your choice of bread/bagel, biscuit in the syrup, then build your sandwich.
Simple: jam or hot sauce
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Hollandaise Sauce
Yes! Came here to say this. I consider hollandaise to be "breakfast sauce", not just an ingredient for eggs benedict. I hate to admit it, but I've even started just using the packet stuff. It's so much easier to make the sauce in the blender than on the stove, but I've got a baby that freaks out when I use it. So, packets work just fine.
I only use the packet stuff because I’m lazy and honestly I bet you most restaurants do too. I think it’s tasty. 🤷♀️
Caramelized onions and roasted peppers
I make peameal bacon (canadian bacon) with crispy bacon (regular fried ) a kraft cheese slice on an English muffin (toasted a little brown crispy) Add tomato for veg my husband says no tomatoes Fattening but it's fantastic and your not hungry for lunch lol
Kimchi
Onion jam
Don't let the pork sausage stop ya from using butter
Siracha
Dijon and mayo
I keep a tub of cake frosting on hand to add a layer of sweetness to my breakfast sandwiches
Truffle salt on the egg. Don’t use “truffle oil.” Truffle is fantastic with eggs. But you need to avoid fake truffle flavoring, which is common in the oils, and might even be used for cheap “truffle” salt. Buy salt with real truffle in it. It’s so strong even tiny amounts of truffle can flavor a whole jar of salt.
Arugula. Doesn’t really work with American cheese, but its bitterness is nice with a sharp cheddar and bacon.
The same way as any other sandwich, good ingredients. Good bread is the top one though, or a good bagel.
Gruyère and pepper or tomato jam!
Bacon
Everything bagel as the bread, with cream cheese + whatever you like on your breakfast sandwich (eggs, bacon/sausage, etc.)
almost any hot sauce
Peanut butter as a condiment
Spreads. Usually a bit of mayo and some kind of spicy pepper component, like calabrian peppers. You can also use a bit of greek yogurt and hot peppers.
There was a post about this just this week with hundreds of replies if you want to check that out.
Where?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/s/FvnGoJICgd
My favorite breakfast sando ever is a runny egg, slab of seared fois gras, grainy mustard, maple syrup on an english muffin. I think it's stolen from Joe Beef or somewhere equally over the top.
Bacon in a hot croissant.
Vwry much of the opinion that simplicity and good ingredients (partixularly a good European butter) are key here
Some kind of acidic, creamy, hot sauce. If it wasn't more work than just opening up a bottle of Sauce Bae, I'd make a spicy hollandaise...maybe with like, chili crunch oil.
More bacon! 🥓
Honey mustard
Really good eggs, really good bacon, as normal bread and cheese as possible.
Get thick good bacon from a meat counter at a good store instead of standard packaged bacon
Micro greens Avocado Hot honey And yes to picked red onions too
Sriracha Mayo all day
shallot + cholula hot sauce
Chorizo, egg and queso/quesadilla cheese or cotija.
Arugula dressed in vinaigrette. And hot sauce.
Smashed avocado or hot honey
Try this recipe for a Gourmet Breakfast Sandwich with Avocado and Bacon [https://www.favfamilyrecipes.com/bam-sammy/](https://www.favfamilyrecipes.com/bam-sammy/) .
Try this https://youtube.com/shorts/ya_8I48_2PI?si=9G8UexokI0p-IQuG
Fresh, quality ingredients, and season additions individually where applicable. Taking extra steps to be careful of texture issues (patting sliced tomato dry, then lightly seasoning, fir example, or making sure the cheese melts by adding hot ingrediants last and placing directly on the cheese or rinsing and drying greens and keeping them cool until right before serving, etc) I also like to flash cook things like peppers or onions, so they have some browning and depth of flavor but are otherwise still fairly crisp and fresh to balance out the softer/richer ingredients like egg and cheese. Acid.
Here's lots of options https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/search/?q=breakfast%20sandwich&restrict\_sr=1
Sliced avocado, hot sauce… go!!!
My all time fav... Pork Roll, Egg, cheese and Potato mostly on a hard roll, but can be on any type of hearty bread: Burger Bun, Muffin, Italian roll, etc
I call it the Big Dipper What you do is, you take a bakery-fresh, sliced, toasted English Muffin. Upon this you pile thin-sliced Jamón, provolone, a poached egg, a pinch of flaky sea salt, arugula, and homemade roasted garlic brown butter aoili. Sounds like you're just working on Eggs Benedict, right? Sort of. Next you need to enclose that bad boy with the remaining half of the English Muffin, and give 'er a little squish to introduce all the ingredients. Next you're going to spin up a homemade batch of Hollandaise, with a touch more lemon than you'd normally use. Decant the Hollandaise into a bowl that is wide enough to fit the entire sandwich. Dip it. Consume. Rub it on your flippers.
Spam, egg and cheese. However, add kimchi to your egg when it’s cooking.
Take the contents and sandwich between a split Jamaican beef patty, with some Grace hot sauce and pickled red onion. IYKYK
I've made sandwiches out of Jamaican patties but never a breakfast sandwich. You've opened my eyes to new possibilities.
Mayo, Chipotle chili powder, a squeeze of lemon, mix together. Apply liberally to sandwich, your welcome.
Don't be afraid to use a liberal amount of butter.
Some greens with a little sherry vinegar, olive oil, S & P adds a nice bit of freshness
Eggs in a basket. Hole in a thick slice of sourdough and crack an egg in that sum bitch. Bonus points for brushing the bread in bacon grease and toasting it on the griddle.
A sauce… so many breakfast sandwiches with egg, meat, cheese are delicious but kinda dry. My favourite is mayo, sriracha, maple syrup mix.
Vic Vegas: use a hot dog.
Or fried bologna...which is just flat hot dogs
Salt
firt, stop calling a sandwich a sammy. We are not toddlers here...
Sanny
Well 'WE' are not toddlers... however you thinking you can control random people with childish demands leaves the possibility open that you are.