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Breakfast Club: Leftovers for the Win

June 4, 2012 · By Monica Shaw

Poached Egg with Fagioli All Uccelletto

“Breakfast Club: Because breakfast should be more interesting than tea and toast or coffee and cereal.”

If you follow me on Twitter, Flickr or SmarterFitter Daily then you know I’m all about awesome breakfasts. People have wondered how I have so much time for some of my early morning creations. My answer: leftovers. I’m always turning leftovers into breakfasts. Add a poached egg here, or a tortilla there, and boom: last night’s dinner become an easy but wonderful breakfast.

So why am I talking breakfast leftovers? This month I am hosting the Breakfast Club for my friend Helen at Fuss Free Flavours. The theme for this month is – you guessed it – LEFTOVERS. I want to hear all about your amazing ideas for turning leftovers into awesome breakfasts.

Breakfast Club logo

To kick things off, here’s a few of my ideas for turning leftovers into great breakfasts:

  • Take leftover lentils, chilli, or any kind of bean dish and add a poached egg on top. Fagioli all Uccelletto (pictured above) is perfect for this. Add a bit of good crusty bread and you really have it made.
  • Poached eggs also work nicely on any leftover vegetables, particularly roasted vegetables or, my current favourite, braised carrots.

Braised carrots with cumin, broad bean tops and poached egg. #dinner

  • When I’m cooking a lunch or dinner that involves sauteed veggies, I always sauté extras and use this in the morning for a quick omelet, or added to scrambled eggs (or tofu, or fish) for breakfast tacos. Case in point: vegan breakfast tacos, awesome with good salsa and avocado.

Vegan Breakfast Taco

  • Indian food is a favourite, particularly dal, to which you can easily add whatever veggie you like while you’re heating up the veggie. I like to think of this as savoury breakfast porridge. This yellow pea dal is one of my favourites for this purpose, and it’s a real treat if I have chapattis and pickles on hand to go with it.

Yellow Pea Dahl

  • Lately I’m cuckoo for Kadhi, a spicy, yogurt-based soup that’s super adaptable to any and all matter of additions – be it vegetables, rice, potatoes, paneer, and so on. The yogurt factor makes it feel especially breakfast-like. That and its inherent yumminess.

Kadhi with Pak Choi

  • Keep boiled potatoes around. They’re super handy, sauteed with onions and eggs (or tofu!) for a quick breakfast hash.
  • I also like to use leftover boiled potatoes and fish for a quick breakfast salad.

Salad with Sea Trout, Potatos and Argan Oil

  • Another recent favourite is using leftover rice or other grain to make a quick salad with fruits, nuts, herbs and anything else I feel like.

Basmati Rice Salad with Olives & Raisins

  • Add those leftover grains to some leftover roasted veggies and you have something pretty special. Case in point: this butternut, cranberry and bulgur salad.

Roast Butternut & Cranberry Salad with Bulgar

For me, one of the keys to making leftovers exciting is to serve them a bit differently than I did for dinner, so as to create a whole new meal rather than something that sounds as boring as “leftovers”. So if I had chilli the night before with cornbread, I’ll have it in the morning with tortilla and avocado. Or if I had grilled fish and boiled potatoes for dinner, I’ll put the leftovers in a salad to create an entirely different dish.

As you can see, the leftover thing does tend to be best suited for savoury breakfasts. But you can sweeten the deal with the dessert course. For example, these grilled peaches, served with panna cotta for dessert this weekend, were also terrific in the morning with yogurt and muesli.

Grilling peaches

Please let the world know of your breakfast leftover ideas by blogging about your recipes and sharing them with the Breakfast Club.

Here are a few rules:

  • Please indicate in your post that it is a Breakfast Club event, and add a link to the main Breakfast Club page.
  • All entrants must (1) link to this post on SmarterFitter, (2) link to Helen’s Breakfast Club at Fuss Free Flavours and (3) include the Breakfast Club logo (click here to download).
  • Entries can be sent to other events but must include the links detailed above.
  • Recipes that you have blogged before are fine, but they must be republished and the logo and links above added.
  • If you use Twitter please use #blogbreakfastclub and tweet your entry.
  • Be mindful of copyright if using recipes which are not your own.
  • Closing date will be 30th June and I shall post the roundup shortly after that.

When you have written your post and have linked to it as mentioned above, please add your post below so everyone can see your recipes. I look forward to being inspired by your clever ideas for breakfast leftovers.

About Monica Shaw

Veg lover, dog owner, hill walker, wild camper, avocado addict, nerd. I write about how to be awesome through a "smarter fitter" approach to eating, drinking, living and working.
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  1. Dhiren says

    June 6, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    Do you know where I can get spelt/buckwheat tortillas?

    Reply
    • Monica says

      June 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm

      No, but we can learn to make them together when you come to visit. 🙂 I have heaps of spelt and buckwheat flower, and am ready to experiment!

      Reply
  2. Jes says

    June 8, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    Your leftovers breakfasts always kill me with deliciousness! I wish I had the time to make breakfast more than 2-3 times per month. Le sigh, the modern life.

    Reply
    • Monica says

      June 11, 2012 at 2:06 pm

      Modern life is one of the reasons I’m so keen on leftovers for breakfast. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Ren Behan says

    June 14, 2012 at 11:40 am

    Lovely ideas here, Monica. I’ve blogged my leftover breakfast here –

    http://www.renbehan.com/2012/06/meli-melo-tomato-and-parmesan-scramble.html

    Look forward to the round up and thank you for hosting xx

    Reply
  4. Toddy says

    June 29, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    I took your anvil-heavy hint and wrote up the “recipe” to submit just in time!

    http://creditcrunchkitchen.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/by-special-request-daal-parathas.html

    Hope you do try it out – let me know how it goes!
    T
    xx

    Reply
  5. Anonymous says

    July 20, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    These are great ideas for breakfast. I love leftovers. I don’t get too creative with mine because I am always rushing. I usually stir-fry leftovers with rice and egg. I am bookmarking these ideas to get me a little inspired.

    Reply
  6. Rose says

    August 9, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    I loved this post, and I wanted to tell you that I’ve done this a few times since you published this post in June. I love having quinoa leftovers, but I’ve done it with some other leftovers too. Thanks for the great advice! It really helped to expand my breakfast options without demanding a lot of extra time.

    Reply
    • Monica says

      August 10, 2012 at 4:57 am

      Rose, thank you so much for the feedback and it’s wonderful to hear you’ve been rocking the quinoa leftovers. When you have time you must tell me some of your tastiest concoctions!

      Reply
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