Breakfast

Breakfast (literally meaning breaking the fast of the night) is the first meal taken after rising from a nights sleep, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking the days work. Breakfast foods vary widely from place to place, but often include a carbohydrate such as grains or cereals, fruit and/or vegetable, a protein food such as eggs, meat or fish, and a beverage such as tea, coffee or fruit juice. Breakfast should be light and easily digestible. The dishes of breakfast depend upon the custom, habit and season.

Types of Breakfast
1. Continental breakfast It is the breakfast of choice in most of the Continental European countries, where, apparently, they do not consider breakfast to be the most important meal of the day. A Continental breakfast consists of croissants, rolls, or bread, with preserves like butter, jam, and/or marmalade, and coffee, tea, or, hot chocolate. Choice of fresh or canned juice can also be given in continental breakfast. Continental breakfast menu can be divided into two parts Cafe' Simple: It is very simple version of breakfast which consists of the service of coffee only. If instead of coffee only tea is served then it is named as The Simple. Cafe' Complete: It is more elaborated than a cafe' simple and consists the service of Choices of juice, bread basket containing bread items likeToast, Rolls, Danish, Sticks etc with tea and coffee.

Choice of Breads
1. Croissants

2. Muffins

3. Rolls

4. Doughnuts

5. Danish Pastry

6. Brioche

2. American Breakfast A breakfast that includes most or all of the following: two eggs (fried or poached), sliced ham, bacon or sausages, choice of bread or toast with jam /marmalade /butter, pancakes with syrup, cornflakes or other cereal, choice of hot beverage like coffee/tea, and choice of fruit juices.

Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon (also known as green bacon). Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months in cold air, boiled, or smoked. Fresh and dried bacon must be cooked before eating. Boiled bacon is ready to eat, as is some smoked bacon, but may be cooked further before eating. Bacon is prepared from several different cuts of meat. It is usually made from side and back cuts of pork. A sausage is a food usually made from ground meat (normally pork or beef), mixed with salt, herbs, and other spices with a tough skin around it, although vegetarian sausages are available. The word sausage is derived from Old French saussiche, from the Latin word salsus, meaning salted. Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes synthetic. Some sausages are cooked during processing and the casing may be removed after. Ham is a cut of meat from the thigh of the hind leg of an animal, especially pigs.

Sausages

Ham

3. English Breakfast Traditional English breakfast (also called full breakfast, and served in inns or restaurants) may include choice of fruit juices, choice of cereals, porridge, stewed fruits, yogurt, boiled eggs or bacon and eggs, grilled fish, sausages, grilled or fried mushrooms or tomatoes with fried bread, followed by choice of breads with preserves and tea or coffee. 4. Indian Breakfast Indian breakfast is varied and consists of steamed, roasted as well as fried foods. Generally Indian Breakfast is divided into two categories i.e. North Indian and South Indian. The north Indian breakfast food differs a little from the south Indian food. Many South Indian recipes are made using rice whereas the north Indians uses wheat more. South Indian breakfast consists of Idli ,Dosa, Uttappa, Vade. All these are served with chutney, mostly coconut chutney and sambhar North Indian breakfasts are parathas served with butter, curd or different kinds of pickles or curries, Poori Baji, Chole Bhature etc.