Keto Breakfast Ideas
By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 05/24/2023 - Last updated on 01/28/2024
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Starting the day with a healthy breakfast is essential for everyone, but it’s particularly true if you are on a low-carb or keto diet.
These more than 50 delicious keto breakfast ideas will show you that you can eat something good, filling, and low in carbs.
A healthy keto breakfast requires a good balance of ingredient, just like keto dessert recipes, keto side dishes.
What Are Keto Breakfasts?
The best keto breakfast ideas are all these recipes that provide a combination of healthy fat and protein as well as vitamins and minerals.
They are made to keep you full until lunch without bringing too many carbs.
Low-carb breakfast ideas are dishes made with keto-friendly ingredients such as:
- Eggs
- Nuts
- Berries such as blueberries, raspberries, or strawberries.
- Low-carb vegetables such as bell pepper, lettuce, or kale
- Dairy products such as cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, Greek yogurt, or heavy cream.
- Low-carb spread and sauce such as Keto Nutella, Keto Jam Recipe, Peanut Butter, or sugar-free maple syrup.
- Non-dairy milk, like unsweetened almond milk, coconut milk, or oat milk.
Easy Keto breakfast recipes typically avoid:
- Potatoes (hash, hashbrown, puree)
- Classic Cereal (often loaded in sugar)
- Classic Bread
- Jam, Chocolate Spread
How To Make Keto Breakfast Recipes
Most keto breakfast recipes are either quick recipes made in a few minutes in a frying pan or microwave oven, or they are meal-prep recipes that make a large batch and cooked in the oven.
Ingredients
Let’s take the example of a featured keto breakfast recipe: Cottage Cheese Omelette to describe how a keto recipe idea can be made.
- Eggs – Eggs are fantastic for a keto breakfast as they are rich in fat, protein, and very low in carbs.
- Salt and Pepper – Seasoning is essential to enjoy a good breakfast.
- Cottage Cheese – Cottage cheese, like most dairy products is keto friendly as it contains almost no carbs.
- Italian Seasoning
- Butter – Butter is keto-friendly.
- Baby Spinach Leaves – Spinach, like many other keto-friendly vegetables is amazing to bring vitamins and nutrients.
- Garlic Cloves
- Olive Oil
- Parmesan Cheese
- Green Onion
Instructions
Making keto breakfast recipes is, most of the time, something that can be done in a matter of minutes.
This featured omelet, for example, is made by combining the omelette ingredients in a bowl, cooking it on a frying pan with olive oil, and adding the filling ingredients when the omelet is ready.
Storage Instructions
Most keto breakfast ideas can be stored in the fridge for a few days when they are cooked, as long as they are kept in an airtight container.
Some can also be frozen, in particular larger batch options like keto breakfast casseroles or quiches.
50+ Best Keto Breakfast Ideas
Frequently Asked Questions
There are many breakfast you can have on a keto diet, from omelettes to low-carb smoothies, hot drinks, chaffles, keto pancakes, quiches, or casseroles.
In fact, most classic breakfast can either be turned into a keto version or are accidentally keto-friendly.
Oats are very high in carbs, so they tend to be avoided on a keto diet.
You can instead make mock oatmeal like my Keto Oatmeal or Keto Hemp Heart ‘Oatmeal’.
On a keto diet, you want to start the morning with a filling breakfast that brings minimal carbs.
So it should be rich in fat, protein, and vitamins.
Something like a bulletproof coffee and a Cottage Cheese Breakfast is a great combination.
Eggs are a great keto-friendly ingredient, so they can be taken multiple times during a day.
However, keeping a healthy diet generally requires a balance and variety of ingredients.
So on the long run, it’s preferable to vary your sources of protein.
Yes, unless you follow a structured intermittent fasting programme, it’s essential to have a healthy breakfast on a keto diet.
About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.
I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!
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