Fifteen vegan breakfasts, ordered by how long they take. Two minutes at the top, overnight at the bottom.
Most of them are savory, which is the part usually missing from breakfast lists.
Six are ours. Where a recipe uses oil or shop-bought mayonnaise we have said so.
1. Avocado Toast
Five ingredients and five minutes. Toast, avocado, lemon, salt and chili flakes.
272 calories for two slices. There are two teaspoons of olive oil in the original and the avocado already covers that job.
Get the recipe from The Forked Spoon.
2. Quick and Creamy Vegan Egg Salad
Silken tofu mashed with mustard, turmeric and kala namak, the black salt that does the eggy flavor.
Five minutes and it keeps three or four days, so it doubles as tomorrow’s sandwich. A quarter cup of vegan mayonnaise carries it, or blend more silken tofu instead.
Get the recipe from Plant n’ Spice.
3. Quick Creamy Chocolate Oatmeal
Ours. Cocoa stirred through oatmeal on the stove, done in about six minutes.
The one for mornings when you want breakfast to feel like a treat and have no time to arrange one.
4. Savory Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
Cooked quinoa with raw carrot, zucchini and red cabbage, avocado and a spoon of hummus. Nothing gets cooked in the morning.
Ten minutes if the quinoa is waiting in the fridge, and plain quinoa keeps five days. 350 calories.
Get the recipe from Cooking Compass.
5. Healthy Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
Also ours, and the sweet version of the one above. Quinoa instead of oats gives it more chew and more protein for the same effort.
Cook a batch of quinoa on Sunday and both bowls become five minute jobs.
6. Vegan Tofu Scramble with Miso
Miso and soy sauce rather than the usual turmeric and black salt, with shiitake and green pepper through it.
Fifteen minutes, serves four, 137 calories a portion. It asks for a tablespoon of oil and a splash of water in a hot pan does the same work.
Get the recipe from Chef JA Cooks.
7. Quick Curried Tofu Scramble
Ours too, and the spiced one. Curry powder takes tofu somewhere quite different from the usual turmeric route.
On toast it is about ten minutes from fridge to plate.
8. Mini Chickpea Flour Frittata Bites
Chickpea flour, nutritional yeast, mushrooms and peppers baked in a muffin pan. No eggs and no soy.
Twenty minutes and it makes twenty-two, which is the whole point. Bake once and breakfast is settled for most of the week.
Get the recipe from Strength and Sunshine.
9. Banana Breakfast Oatmeal Cookies
Ours. Banana, oats, dates, cocoa and a spoon of peanut butter. Five ingredients that matter.
Twenty minutes and it makes nine. Cookies you can eat standing up on the way out, with nothing in them you would not put in oatmeal.
10. Chickpea Tuna Salad
Also ours, and the most read recipe on the site. Mashed chickpeas with nori stirred through for the flavor of the sea.
Make it once and it covers breakfast on toast, then lunch in a sandwich, for three days.
11. Baked Oats, No Banana
Applesauce instead of banana, which matters if you are one of the people who cannot stand banana in oats.
Thirty minutes at 256 calories. Blend, pour into a ramekin, bake. There are five flavor variations on the original.
Get the recipe from The Fruity Jem.
12. Scrambled Tofu Breakfast Burrito
Tofu scrambled with chili powder, turmeric and nutritional yeast, with kale and onion, rolled into tortillas.
Thirty minutes for four, and they freeze wrapped. Make the batch on Sunday and reheat one on a Tuesday.
Get the recipe from Plant-Based on a Budget.
13. 3-Ingredient Coconut Cookies
Ours as well, and about as short as a recipe gets.
Not really a breakfast on their own, but they sit next to a coffee on the mornings when nothing else is going to happen.
14. Flax Seed Pudding
Ground flax rather than chia, which sets thicker and costs less. Three flavor variations on the original page.
An hour, nearly all of it setting in the fridge. 302 calories for the jar.
Get the recipe from The Fruity Jem.
15. Easy Overnight Oats with Strawberries
The last of ours, and the one that requires no morning at all. Oats, plant milk, chia and strawberries in a jar the night before.
No sweetener beyond the fruit. The busiest mornings are the ones you decided about yesterday.
The thing that actually saves the morning
A pot of cooked quinoa, a tray of frittata bites or a batch of burritos in the freezer turns four of these into two minute jobs.
We wrote about why breakfast is the easiest meal to get right, if you want the longer version.
And, always, seek health consciously.
