Best Egg Recipes

If there is one thing that I always keep around, it’s eggs. Not only are they inexpensive and easy to cook, but there are so many ways to enjoy them. Scrambled, fried, poached, hard or soft-boiled, on their own, packed with veggies, loaded with melty cheese, or served with meat…the possibilities for eggs are really endless. That’s why they’re one of my favorite refrigerator staples! So grab a carton and check out some of my favorite egg recipes below!

How to Cook Egg Tutorials

First, let’s cover the basics! These step-by-step tutorials show you how to soft-boil, hard-boil, fry, poach, and even air fry eggs using easy methods anyone can master (promise!). 🍳

1. How to Soft Boil Eggs

Want to learn how to make the silkiest, creamiest soft-boiled eggs of all time? You’re in the right place. My soft-boiled eggs recipe is a super simple, 10-minute method for the perfect boiled egg EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I like to serve these soft-boiled eggs on their own, on toast, added to breakfast bowls, in soup, as a salad topping, you name it and I love it.

2. How to Hard Boil Eggs

Making perfect hard-boiled eggs is easy, once you get the formula right! My simple hot-water bath method gently finishes cooking the eggs off the heat, giving you more wiggle room before the yolks overcook (or develop that dreaded green ring!!). Keep a batch in the fridge for easy snacking, egg salad, and more!

3. How to Fry An Egg

Fried eggs are a breakfast time staple! But they’re also a fast and easy way to add protein to any meal. This simple tutorial covers sunny side up, over easy, and over hard, so you can cook the yolks exactly how you like them.

4. Poached Eggs

Poached eggs might look fancy, but they’re so much easier to make than you’d think. This simple 8-minute method uses a splash of vinegar and a gentle vortex to help the whites stay together as they cook. You’ll get firm whites and a soft, runny yolk that’s perfect for avocado toast, Eggs Benedict, or a quick breakfast!

5. Air Fryer Hard Boiled Eggs

Don’t feel like waiting for a pot of water to boil? These air fryer hard-boiled eggs cook in 17 minutes with almost no hands-on work. Finish them in an ice bath to stop the cooking and make peeling easier.

Scrambled Egg Recipes

When the grocery budget is tight, scrambled eggs make an inexpensive and filling starting point for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. They’re delicious as they are, of course, but I’m always looking for ways to stretch them a little further! Keep scrolling for some of my favorite ways to bulk them out into a full meal.

6. Scrambled Eggs

Let’s start with THE classic scrambled eggs. I love scrambling eggs because it’s just so easy. You just crack a few eggs into a skillet, push them around for a few minutes, and they’re good to go. The most difficult part is deciding what to serve them with because there are so many options! 

7. Cottage Cheese Eggs

If you haven’t tried cottage cheese eggs yet, this is your sign! A couple spoonfuls of cottage cheese make the scrambled eggs extra soft and creamy while bumping up the protein. They’re made with four simple ingredients, ready in 15 minutes, and pack about 11 grams of protein per serving!

8. Vegetable Breakfast Scrambles

This vegetable breakfast scramble is a great way to use up leftovers and an easy way to pack some vegetables into your day. It’s really just scrambled eggs loaded with pepper, spinach, tomatoes, avocado, and is SO delicious. Bonus: it’s ready in a total of 10 minutes!

9. Freezer Breakfast Burritos

These freezer-friendly breakfast burritos are both delicious and easy to make. I think they make the perfect reheat, grab, and go breakfast or easy weeknight dinner. Plus, they’re also super customizable. Load them up with your favorite meat, veggies, and cheeses, pop them in the freezer, and breakfast is handled.

10. Scrambled Eggs with Spinach and Feta

This scrambled eggs with spinach and feta recipe turns four simple ingredients into one seriously delicious breakfast! They’re buttery, savory, and ready in only 10 minutes. Enjoy these eggs as-is, with a side of toast, wrap them in a tortilla, stuff them into a pita, or sandwich them onto a toasted bagel.

11. Menemen (Turkish Scrambled Eggs)

Menemen is a Turkish scrambled egg dish filled with tomatoes, bell pepper, onion, and a subtle touch of heat. The eggs are cooked until barely set, so they stay soft and mingle with the tomato juices. Serve it with crusty bread for scooping!

12. Hummus Breakfast Tacos

If you know anything about me, you know that eggs and hummus are one of my favorite combinations. Not only do the two taste delicious together, but they pack a serious punch of nutrition. These hummus breakfast tacos are a great 15-minute breakfast that is packed with flavor.

13. Country Breakfast Bowls

These country breakfast bowls are one of the first meal prep breakfast recipes I ever made, and still one of my all-time favorites. They’re loaded with potatoes, eggs, cheese, and salsa for a super flavorful AND filling make-ahead breakfast. I love to prep these bowls on Sunday, so breakfast is ready to go all week long.

14. Green Chile Migas

Take your scrambled eggs to a whole new level of deliciousness with this green chile migas recipe. This recipe is super inexpensive to make and absolutely loaded with delicious Tex-Mex flavor. This easy breakfast is creamy, cheesy, perfectly spicy, and will definitely be your new favorite way to enjoy scrambled eggs!

Baked Egg Recipes

Baked eggs are an easy, hands-off way to enjoy your morning eggs. There’s no standing over a skillet babysitting your eggs, just pop them in the oven until they’re rich, creamy, and oh so delicious. These recipes are a few of my all-time favorite ways to serve baked eggs.

15. Baked Eggs

These baked eggs are the ultimate clean-out-the-fridge breakfast! Eggs bake over fresh spinach and juicy tomatoes with a splash of cream to keep them soft, then crumbled feta adds a salty finish. They’re ready in 25 minutes and those runny yolks are practically begging for a piece of toast!

16. Easy Crustless Quiche

This spinach and mushroom crustless quiche is the perfect addition to breakfast or brunch. It’s loaded with protein and veggies and packed with flavor. While it looks, tastes, and sounds fancy, this crustless quiche is surprisingly simple, made mostly of pantry staples, and takes just 15 minutes to prep.

17. Egg Muffins

Egg muffins are the grab-and-go breakfast you’ll be SO glad you prepped ahead! Blending cottage cheese into the eggs helps them bake up soft and tender instead of rubbery, and you can customize each one with leftover veggies, cheese, or cooked meat. One batch makes 12, so breakfast is ready for days!

18. Southwest Tortilla Baked Eggs

My Southwest tortilla baked egg recipe is a delicious mashup of a breakfast quesadilla and a breakfast pizza. I make it with a tortilla crust that’s topped with eggs, cheese, veggies, and more. It takes just 10 minutes to prep and can be easily customized to your liking.

19. Creamed Spinach Baked Eggs

I love any recipe that I can whip up with ingredients I already have lying around. And these creamed spinach baked eggs are one of those recipes. This delicious breakfast is quick to prep and is packed with eggs, frozen spinach, two types of cheese, and the perfect blend of seasonings.

Egg Recipes for Dinner

While eggs are a classic for breakfast, no one said you can’t enjoy them all day long. And who doesn’t love a good breakfast for dinner option? These recipes are just a few of my favorite ways to eat eggs for dinner.

20. Quiche Lorraine

Quiche without all the fuss? Yes, please! This easy Quiche Lorraine uses puff pastry for a light, flaky crust and only takes 10 minutes to prep. Par-baking the pastry helps prevent a soggy bottom beneath the silky egg custard loaded with smoky bacon and Swiss cheese. Serve it hot or cold for a filling dinner (I love it hot, personally!)

21. Shakshuka

This shakshuka gently poaches eggs in a smoky tomato and red pepper sauce loaded with cumin, paprika, cardamom, and a little heat. It only takes five minutes to prep, cooks in one pan, and is filling enough for breakfast OR dinner. Don’t forget some pita to scoop up all that sauce and runny yolk!

22. Ratatouille Frittata

This colorful ratatouille frittata is packed with roasted eggplant, zucchini, onion, and juicy grape tomatoes. Roasting the vegetables first concentrates their flavor and cooks off excess moisture, so the eggs bake up tender instead of watery. Add a little Parmesan on top, and dinner is served!

23. Black Beans with Eggs

These black beans with eggs are my kind of budget dinner. They’re warm, saucy, filling, and ready in 20 minutes. Garlic and jalapeño give the beans plenty of flavor, then the eggs poach right in the skillet until the whites are set and the yolks are still soft. Spoon everything over rice and break the yolks into the beans to make the sauce even richer. 😋

24. Bacon Broccoli Cheddar Crustless Quiche

Broccoli and cheddar is a combination we all know and love. Pair that combo with bacon and bake it into a creamy quiche and I’m not sure you will ever come across anything more perfect. This cheesy broccoli bacon recipe is made up of basic refrigerator staples and uses frozen broccoli for extra easy prep.

25. Chorizo Breakfast Hash

Just because it has “breakfast” in the name doesn’t mean that it’s not also perfect for dinner. 😉 This chorizo hash is loaded with tender potatoes, veggies, spicy chorizo, and perfectly fried eggs. This tasty plate is hearty enough for even the biggest dinner appetites.

Egg Sandwich Recipes

I lived off of egg sandwiches pretty much all through college, and I still love them. If that’s not a testament to how awesome egg sandwiches are, I don’t know what is. But if you want to explore beyond the basic egg sandwich, these five egg sandwich recipes are anything but boring.

26. Brown Sugar Bacon Breakfast Sandwiches

These brown sugar bacon breakfast sandwiches take sweet and spicy to another level. They pack a serious flavor punch with smoky and sweet brown sugar bacon, spicy homemade chipotle mayo, fried egg, lettuce, and tomato all layered on a buttery brioche bun. These sandos also make the best sweet and savory breakfast, lunch, or dinner option!

27. Freezer Breakfast Sandwiches

I love these egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches because I can prep them ahead of time for quick weekday breakfasts. Plus, I can pack them with tons of veggies. I opted for roasted red peppers and frozen spinach in this recipe here, but you can load these up with whatever veggies you like. So easy, so customizable, and so delicious.

28. Breakfast Quesadillas

Let’s just set aside the argument about whether a quesadilla is a type of sandwich and agree that they’re the best thing ever. Especially when stuffed with egg and cheese. These sausage and egg breakfast quesadillas are stuffed with flavorful country sausage, perfectly cooked eggs, melty cheddar, salt, and pepper. YUM.

29. Sriracha Egg Salad

I’m a major egg salad fan. I am also a major Sriracha fan. And this Sriracha egg salad is exactly what I want packed between two slices of hearty, toasted bread. Or you can spread onto some salty crackers, or maybe just loaded up onto the biggest spoon I own. This recipe is packed with flavor, requires just 7 ingredients, and takes a quick 10 minutes to prep.

30. Chili Garlic Breakfast Quesadillas

These chili garlic breakfast quesadillas are the epitome of Budget Bytes (and not just because I was eating them every day when I started the blog). They’re super inexpensive to make but still incredibly delicious. You’ve got rich eggs, melty cheddar cheese, spicy chili garlic sauce, and good-for-you spinach sandwiched between a toasty tortilla, making one of the best breakfast combos ever. Bonus: this meal is ready in a total of 10 minutes!

Easy Egg Recipes

Most egg recipes aren’t overly complicated in general, but these recipes are the easiest of easy. I’m talking ready in less than 30 minutes, made in the microwave, and/or consisting of refrigerator and pantry staples!

31. Deviled Eggs

These deviled eggs are about as easy as party food gets! The creamy filling combines mayo, Dijon, dill relish, and seasoned salt for plenty of tangy flavor. They only need five ingredients, are easy to prepare ahead, and ALWAYS disappear fast at parties, potlucks, and holiday gatherings.

32. Easy Egg Salad

It really doesn’t get any easier than this super basic egg salad that only requires a few simple ingredients. When you’re hungry and need something cheap, egg salad is always there to save the day! Serve it as a sandwich or wrap, scoop it up with crackers, or even pile it onto a big green salad.

33. Microwave Breakfast Scrambles

What if I told you that you could meal prep a protein and veggie-packed breakfast in the microwave in just 10 minutes? These make-ahead microwave breakfast scrambles are a super quick, easy, and nutritious breakfast that take only 10 minutes to prep and 1 minute to warm in the microwave! 

34. Savory Microwave Breakfast Mug

This 5-minute savory microwave breakfast mug is the perfect way to use up leftover bread, meat, and veggies…and yes, it really does take just 5 minutes to make! This breakfast is packed with eggs, bread, sausage, cheese, and your choice of veggies. Follow the recipe as-is or customize it to your liking.

35. Chinese Steamed Eggs

Have you ever heard of Chinese steamed eggs? They’re silky, delicate, EASY, and made with just eggs, salt, and water! They’re ready in 15 minutes and so, so good topped with soy sauce, scallions, sesame oil, or chili crunch.

So what about you? What is your favorite way to eat eggs? Tell me about your favorite meal with eggs in the comments below. 👇