7 Keto Diet Breakfast Ideas – Best Easy Low Carb & Ketogenic Diet friendly quick breakfast recipes – including quick breakfast bowl, casserole, fry up & scramble.
7 Keto Diet Breakfast Ideas
Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. I just love mixing and matching low carb, keto diet friendly breakfast foods, that are loaded with healthy fats, to create a variety of delicious breakfast dishes. In the past I’ve shared a couple of weeks of keto diet breakfast ideas. Including with and without eggs.
For these easy Keto Diet Breakfast Ideas, I’ve included my absolute favourite keto breakfasts to date. These are the indulgent breakfasts which I look forward to, week in and week out that are low in grams of carbs.
Keto Diet Breakfast Must Haves
For most of the meals in this list of keto breakfast ideas, you’ll need a frying pan. My go to is my red spot frying pan. (Find it here!) I love that the red spot changes colour as it heats up and lets me know when is the perfect time to get cooking.
For even more breakfast inspiration to help you on your weight loss journey than I share in this post, check out Breakfast in 5. You’ll get 30 Easy Keto Breakfast Ideas – all with 5 ingredients, 5 net carbs and 5 simple steps with each recipe. (Click here to learn more.)
1. Cauliflower Rice Breakfast Bowl
This breakfast is a real comfort food. A bowl of cauliflower rice, sauted with mushrooms and topped with a fried egg or two. When chopped and mixed through together you completely forget that it’s a “healthy” breakfast for your most important meal of the day.
To make this easy keto breakfast, first you’ll need cauliflower rice. You can buy already riced cauliflower or you can easily make your own by grating cauliflower or using your food processor to rice the cauliflower.
Then, choose other ingredients for your breakfast bowl. In this instance I chose chopped mushrooms and garlic, but you could pick any low carb vegetables.
Melt butter in your frying pan and cook the mushrooms, garlic and any other vegetables until almost done. Then, add in the riced cauliflower and more butter. You could also pour in some cream, cream cheese, cottage cheese, unsweetened almond milk or stock to help the cauliflower along. Cook until the cauliflower is done to your liking.
Move the cauliflower into a bowl and then quickly fry up an egg or two. Top the cauliflower with the egg and then watch as the magic happens – break the egg yolk and mix through the cauliflower rice for breakfast perfection.
2. Three Cheese Omelette
Why make an ordinary cheese omelette when you can make a three cheese omelette? Mix and match whatever cheese you have in your fridge, or you could seek out 3 of your favourite cheese options to combine together in your dream omelette for a great way to start your day.
In this instance I went for Mozarella, Parmesan and Emmental. But in the past I’ve also included smoked cheese, cheddar and feta.
To make the three cheese omelette, simply whisk together 2 to 3 eggs per person, along with a splash of milk or cream.
Then, heat butter, olive oil or coconut oil in a frying pan. When hot, pour in the whisked eggs. Cook the omelette until ready to fill and then fill with a couple of teaspoons or tablespoons each of your grated or chopped cheese options of choice.
Fold over and cook until done to your liking. Move to a plate and enjoy as is, or I like to have a side of a couple of handfuls of spinach to balance the richness of all the cheese!
3. Steak & Eggs
As you’ll see from this week of breakfasts, I’m not usually a huge meat eater in the morning. That is, with the exception of this steak and eggs breakfast that’s low carb diet approved and high in grams of protein. The huge portion of meat makes up for the other missed meat mornings.
Mushrooms are an essential side with steak and eggs, in my opinion, so I usually start by frying a portion of sliced mushrooms in butter.
You can swap the mushrooms for chopped onion, garlic, bell peppers, broccoli or other non-starchy vegetables that won’t affect your carb intake.
While the mushrooms (or your vegetable sides of choice) are cooking, remove the steak from the fridge, salt generously and allow to come up to room temperature.
Once the mushrooms are golden, remove to a bowl and cover with a plate to keep warm. Then, cook the steaks. I cook mine for 5 minutes a side, them move them off to a plate to rest.
Finally, fry a couple of eggs to complete the breakfast. Assemble the breakfast plate with a portion of mushrooms, a perfectly cooked steak and a couple of fried eggs.
4. Breakfast Casserole
A breakfast casserole is a versatile dish that you can adapt to include any vegetable or even meaty breakfast ingredients. The breakfast casserole can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge to grab and go by the slice for an easy breakfast for busy mornings.
In this instance there’s zucchini, onion and feta with a creamy, eggy surroundings.
To make this Keto Breakfast Casserole, preheat the oven to 180C/350F and get out a well greased baking dish.
Saute your vegetables of choice in plenty of butter. Once softened, move to the prepared baking dish, add feta or any other cheese and then top with 6 eggs, whisked with a third of a cup of cream. You can swap the cream for coconut milk for a dairy free healthy breakfast.
You can top your casserole with more cheese, such as grated cheddar cheese, if you like and then bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden and cooked to your liking. (Here’s the full recipe for you.)
5. Tuna Breakfast Scramble
A tuna melt is one of my old favourite carb staples. So, this tuna breakfast scramble is like a keto friendly version of that.
To make the low carb breakfast recipe, start by cooking your vegetables of choice. When almost done to your liking, add a small tin of tuna. Heat through and then add a couple of whisked eggs and cream.
Scramble briefly and then you can add spinach and grated cheese and cook until you have a cheesy, tuna breakfast scramble.
6. Halloumi Fry Up
Halloumi Cheese is one of those divisive ingredients – either you adore the unique salty, cheesy flavour or you’re not a fan of the texture and squeakiness. (It’s a thing!)
I’m a HUGE fan, my Husband – not so much. So I make this Halloumi fry up for one from time to time and I LOVE it! You can of course swap the halloumi for keto sausage, crispy bacon or your breakfast time meat of choice.
To make the low-carb diet breakfast, start by chopping the Halloumi cheese into strips and then fry until golden on all sides.
Then, cook up some vegetables to go in your fry up. My preference is usually for tomatoes and spinach, which perfectly balance the rich, salty Halloumi. You could fry up whatever vegetables you like.
Finally, fry a couple of eggs to complete your Halloumi fry up. You can season your morning meal with salt, black pepper or your seasonings of choice.
7. Irish Scrambled Eggs
I’ve been living in Ireland for almost a year and these Irish Scrambled Eggs were the first recipe I experimented with when arriving.
They are THE BEST scrambled eggs you’ll ever experience and are perfect with a simple side of smoked salmon.
To make Irish scrambled eggs, melt butter and a couple of tablespoons of cream in your frying pan.
When hot, pour in 2-3 whisked eggs per person and cook, scrambling along the way, until done to your liking.
So, those are my favorite, indulgent easy Keto Diet Breakfast ideas. I hope you’ve found tons of inspiration to fill your week with delicious dishes.
Easy Keto Breakfast Recipes Video
Here’s the video where you can watch the easy keto recipes being prepared, step by step. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
More Best Keto Breakfast Recipes:
Fluffy Pancakes With Almond Flour
Keto Breakfast Ideas For Beginners
Keto Waffles With Coconut Flour
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