15 Upgraded Breakfast Sandwich Recipes

Up your breakfast game with these elevated, updated sandwich recipes—including a grilled cheese "eggsplosion" and a BLT waffle sandwich.

Gillian Osswald

All too often, we let breakfast become a side note to the day—a quick, perfunctory bite grabbed on the run. But not Sunday. The day of rest is the day to take your time and construct the greatest breakfast sandwich of your life.

Unique ingredient combinations and easy DIY twists can help you break out of your bacon, egg, and cheese holding pattern—we found delicious options with mortadella, blue cheese, kale, smoked salmon, avocado and more. In the words of Queen Bey, let us upgrade you…with the best breakfast sandwich recipes out there.

Take your breakfast-sandwich game to the next level with these 15 surefire recipes.

Bacon, Egg, and Blue Cheese Sandwich

Recipe: Smitten Kitchen Why not take a fancy salade Lyonnaise and marry it with an easy, homey egg sandwich? Together, the two dishes make an impressively flavorful mash-up meal—complete with bacon, friseé lettuce, and blue cheese tucked into a ciabatta bun.
Grilled Cheese Eggsplosion

Recipe: Serious Eats This sandwich makes a simple substitution to the run-of-the-mill egg-in-a-hole recipe. But that one change from regular bread to grilled cheese creates an epic combination we can’t believe no one thought of sooner. Cutting into a crispy grilled cheese is awesome, but cutting into one with egg yolks ready to gush out is even better.
Smoked Salmon and Egg Sandwich

Recipe: A Thought for Food Smoked salmon is one of those ingredients that can make any at-home meal feel fancier, even if it’s just an egg sandwich. Add in the pepper, onion, and rosemary and you’re golden for a delicious pescatarian breakfast.
Pork and Eggs Sandwich

Recipe: Food 52 If you’ve got some time—and some leftover pork roast—on your hands, do yourself a favor and put them together to make a breakfast sandwich that says, “treat yo' self.” Pile on homemade tomato jam, herbed mayo, a fried egg, plus a few slices of the roast pork for a sandwich layered with tasty goodness.
Mortadella, Egg, and Brioche Sandwich

Recipe: Wall Street Journal Chefs Josh Habiger and Erik Anderson are the masterminds behind this serious breakfast sandwich. Take fried mortadella, egg, cheese, peppers, and onions and you’ve got a combo that puts a regular BLT or bacon-and-egg sandwich to shame. The mortadella ooze out the sides and make you wonder how you’ve ever made a breakfast sandwich without it.
Bacon, Egg, and Hash Brown Croissant-wich

Recipe: Okie Dokie Artichokie All the classic breakfast players make an appearance in this recipe: bacon, eggs, American cheese, hash browns. Only this time, they’re piled up together with tomato and homemade mayo on a flaky croissant, stacking them into a well-structured two-hander.
Savory Waffle Breakfast Sandwich

Recipe: Cassie Craves Instead of bread, this recipe uses savory waffles. It also uses a trusty bacon, egg, and cheese filling, but the possibilities for waffle-as-bread breakfast sandwiches are endless.
Sausage Hash Sandwich

Recipe: Buns in My Oven Sausage, onion, and red pepper hash, grilled up and thrown into a sourdough bread sandwich? Sounds like hearty breakfast heaven. If you think you can handle it, you can also layer in melted Parmesan to take your breakfast to another level of cheesy goodness.
The Seattle Sandwich

Recipe: Juanita’s Cocina This recipe is adapted from one by Tom Douglas, of the Dahlia Bakery in Seattle. It takes cream cheese, pickled onions, and a fried egg on an English muffin and throws in some homemade lox (though feel free to use the store-bought stuff if you don't have time for all that).
Western Omelet Sandwich

Recipe: Cookin’ Canuck With its layers of ham, peppers, onions, and salsa, a Western omelet is delicious all on its own. But putting it on a whole-wheat English muffin, as this recipe suggests, makes for a compact and hearty sandwich rendition that’s even healthy for you.
Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwich

Recipe: Chasing Delicous Breakfast food for lunch or dinner is always a satisfying switch, so why not try it the other way around? This recipe does just that, turning pulled pork and baked beans into a giant, meaty Texas-style breakfast sandwich.
French Egg and Tomato Tartine

Recipe: Lavender and Lovage This open-faced sandwich totally outclasses plain ol' eggs on toast. It balances the elegance of ingredients like lamb’s lettuce and lovage, with the simplicity of a fried egg and crispy bread.
Mile-High Breakfast Burger

Recipe: The Healthy Foodie The fried egg on top of this mountain of a sandwich qualifies it as a breakfast meal, but this is one sandwich that could easily translate to any meal of the day. With an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach, the recipe employs bacon, egg, jalapeño, kale, tomato, avocado, sauerkraut, and tons of seasoning to create one epic sandwich that looks as stunning as it tastes.
BLT Waffle Sandwich

Recipe: Family Fresh Cooking BLTs: awesome. Waffles: awesome. BLT waffle sandwich? Come on now. It’s a simple mash-up, but one’s that’s guaranteed to deliver in the flavor and fullness departments.
Bacon, Avocado, and Gouda Sandwich

Recipe: Sumptuous Spoonfuls This recipe for an intensified egg sandwich had us at “bacon” and “avocado,” but its greatness doesn’t stop there. Tomato, onion, and creamy Gouda are along for the ride, too—and did we mention this comes on jalepeño cheddar beer bread?

15 Upgraded Breakfast Sandwich Recipes

Bacon, Egg, and Blue Cheese Sandwich

Grilled Cheese Eggsplosion

Smoked Salmon and Egg Sandwich

Pork and Eggs Sandwich

Mortadella, Egg, and Brioche Sandwich

Bacon, Egg, and Hash Brown Croissant-wich

Savory Waffle Breakfast Sandwich

Sausage Hash Sandwich

The Seattle Sandwich

Western Omelet Sandwich

Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwich

French Egg and Tomato Tartine

Mile-High Breakfast Burger

BLT Waffle Sandwich

Bacon, Avocado, and Gouda Sandwich

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