Bagel breakfast sandwich

Cook the bacon as preferred, and then drain on paper towels. Heat a frying pan over a medium heat with a drizzle of olive oil and, once hot, add the chopped onion. Cook for around 6 minutes until softened. Set aside with the bacon.

Crack the eggs into the frying pan, and cook for around 4 minutes, until they’ve reached your desired consistency. Whilst the eggs are in the pan, toast the bagels until golden and then butter.

Halve your avocado, remove the stone and scoop the flesh out. Slice the avocado into four even slices from each half.

Build your bagel. Add the cheese slices, then the eggs, onion, bacon, and top with the sliced avocado. Season with salt and pepper.

Tips & tricks

For the tastiest bacon and egg bagel sandwich, fried eggs work best. When fried the gooey yolk oozes out into the sandwich and covers the other ingredients. If it’s the weekend, and you fancy building the sandwich completely from scratch, you could make your bagels. It’s actually much easier than you think, try following this video on how to make perfect bagels at home, for an authentic homemade bagel sandwich. Whilst it’s quicker to pop the bagel into the toaster, if you have the time to warm it in the oven instead, you’ll get a better result and ability to control whether you’d like your bagel lightly toasted or crispier.

Recipe variations

If you’re not such a fan of bacon, you could add smoked salmon, or remove the meat entirely if you’d like a plant-based dish to start the day with. Cheddar cheese is optional, or you could mix up your cheese. Cream cheese and bagels are a match made in food heaven, and a bacon egg and cheese bagel with cream cheese is a delicious and indulgent breakfast item. We’ve included avocado in our example above, but you could switch this out for tomato. Equally, if you’re not such a fan of bagels, but still like the idea of a breakfast sandwich, you can swap out the bagels for simple bread rolls; a common British breakfast choice. If you want to explore other breakfasts from around the world, read our pick of 15 top breakfasts from France to China to South Africa.

Storage

Breakfast bagel sandwiches are much better fresh, and you can make as many or as few as you need to suit how many people you’re cooking for, so leftovers should be fairly minimal. If, however, you find your appetite isn’t up to the job that day, you can put the leftovers into an airtight container in the refrigerator, and they’ll keep until the next morning. If you have used avocado in your sandwich, this will brown the quickest and is likely to only last for a day after making.