20 incredibly healthy breakfast recipes and ideas

From rice pudding to sugar-free rhubarb muffins, there’s plenty of healthy breakfast ideas to kickstart your day. Here’s 20 of the best options from Delicious.com.au.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so make it count.

This smashed avo and broad bean bruschetta is the ultimate spring brunch

Avocado on toast gets a Maggie Beer makeover.

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Rice pudding with vanilla citrus

A twist on a Swedish rice pudding served for breakfast at Yuletide, this dish brings the comforting festive flavours forward for a Christmas-in-July breakfast.

Vanilla chia-seed pudding

As versatile as it is healthy, you can customise this recipe however you like. The Nourishing Cook by Leah Itsines is published by Macmillan Australia, RRP $34.99.

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Coconut chia pudding with gluten-free spiced granola

For those of you who love granola and chia as a sweet start to your day, why not combine the two with this super easy recipe. This is an edited extract from Surfing the Menu – Next Generation by Dan Churchill and Hayden Quinn (Published by Simon & Schuster, $49.99), and is available in bookshops nationally.

Seasonal fruit with rosewater dressing and yoghurt

This sweet and nourishing dish proves breakfast is anything but boring.

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Lola Berry’s Paleo and Raspberry Loaf

This one’s a winner. It tastes brill and keeps really well frozen too, though to be honest, when I make a loaf I usually devour it within a day or two! The antioxidant lycopene that is found in raspberries does a great job of helping to protect and repair the skin from sun damage (though you’ll still be wanting to slap on that organic sunscreen!). Recipe extracted from Food to Make You Glow by Lola Berry, published by Pan Macmillan Australia.

Grab and go muesli bars

Lusciously decadent bars of soft fruit and crunchy nuts to give you the energy you need to power through the day.

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Lola Berry’s healthy Paleo Brekkie Loaf

It’s no secret that I love sweet things, especially at brekkie time. This loaf is so good because it really feels like you’re eating cake for breakfast, though it’s actually grain free and just so happens to be paleo too! A slice or two of this will have you all powered up and ready to go, with the eggs giving you a whack of protein and the banana acting as a great source of complex carbohydrate and delivering a big hit of the B vitamins you need to get energy into the body. Recipe extracted from Food to Make You Glow by Lola Berry, published by Pan Macmillan Australia.

Sugar-free rhubarb and almond muffins

Almond meal needs to be used quickly after opening or it can become rancid. These healthier muffins make a great breakfast and are sweetened with rice malt syrup instead of refined sugars.

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Thai breakfast omelettes

This Thai inspired omelette is a great, healthy way to start the day.

Bran and brown rice carrot muffins with ginger icing

These muffins use brown rice and oat bran to pack a healthy punch to your mid-morning snack.

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Blueberry, Chia and Olive Oil Cakes

Silvia Colloca’s health-focused dairy-free cakes are deliciously enhanced with blueberries and chia seeds.

All day pan-cooked breakfast

This quick, easy dish is immensely satisfying at any time of day.

Lola Berry’s antioxidant happiness smoothie

Smoothies are a brilliant way to get loads of nutritional value into one meal while keeping you feeling full and satisfied. I love this one because it’s full of the good stuff, with the blueberries giving you that hit of glucose you need to get yourself powered up and full of energy for the day ahead. They are also a great source of the antioxidants anthocyanins, which give them their blueish purple colour – these guys help to prevent cellular damage and are also anti-ageing! Recipe extracted from Food to Make You Glow by Lola Berry, published by Pan Macmillan Australia.

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Bubble and squeak potato hash omelettes

Putting a modern twist on an old breakfast recipe to make your summer brunch a special one.

Vegan banana bread

A tropical take on the classic banana bread, this vegan version uses desiccated coconut and almond meal to create a lusciously sweet and nutty flavour. It’s also gluten free and egg free, making it perfect for anyone with a food allergy or intolerance. This recipe is an extract from Teresa Cutter’s new cookbook, Healthy Baking - Cakes, Cookies + Raw ($69.95), available now.

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Apple and cinnamon granola with stone fruit skewers

Bring a nicer touch to your breakfast menu with fruit skewers on top of granola. It’s a simple way to dress up a muesli bowl and tastes great.

Plum and olive oil crumble muffins

Oats, nuts, excess spices – the overflowing pantry list goes on. Apart from muffins, I like to use up these items by making granola enriched with maple syrup, says delicious. Food Director, Phoebe Wood.

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Gluten-free choc and raspberry muffins

For those of you who are looking for a guilt-free, gluten-free snack in between meals or pre-exercise, go no further than these choc raspberry muffins. This is an edited extract from Surfing the Menu – Next Generation by Dan Churchill and Hayden Quinn (Published by Simon & Schuster, $49.99), and is available in bookshops nationally.

Banana, apple and blueberry loaf

“Perfect for a lazy Friday – breakfast, lunch and dinner in one,” says Shannon Bennett.

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Baked egg cups with prosciutto, Gruyère and truffle oil

Katie Quinn Davies recommends these egg cups as perfect for entertaining when you want something simple that doesn’t take hours in the kitchen. With a luscious sour cream pastry, they’re great for any time of day.

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