Best Breakfast Sandwich Recipes

This simple and satisfying breakfast sandwich recipe calls for using American cheese, but it's equally as delicious with Gruyere or sharp cheddar cheese. Feel free to use your favorite toast if you don't have English muffins. A dash of vinegary hot sauce is a great addition here.

A giant step up from a fast-food breakfast sandwich, this biscuit is topped with eggs, cheese and country ham, jam optional. These tender biscuits have a salty edge. If you prefer, decrease the amount of salt in the recipe to 1 1/2 tablespoons.

At Bica, his daytime cafe and takeout window in New York City, chef George Mendes serves this Portuguese take on the classic egg and cheese sandwich. In place of breakfast sausage, he uses a smoky pork variety called Linguica. If you can't find it, look for a smoky sausage like fresh chorizo.

"These were a staple of my Sunday brunch when I was a line cook at the Admiral Risty restaurant in Rancho Palos Verdes, in Southern California," says Greg Lindgren, who now co-owns some of San Francisco's best bars, including Rye and 15 Romolo. The decadent take on eggs Benedict includes scrambled eggs "with anything and everything," Greg says: Canadian bacon, cheese and jalapenos, all covered with hollandaise sauce.

Chef Jamie Bissonnette's scallion-and-tomato sauce, made with the Middle Eastern spice blend baharat, adds quick flavor to a soft scrambled egg sandwich. The sauce is also delicious on grilled fish, poultry and steak, or as a topping for mashed potatoes. It can be served warm or at room temperature.

F&W's Justin Chapple poaches a dozen eggs at once in a muffin pan in the oven, making his cute and tasty breakfast sliders extraordinarily easy to prepare for entertaining.

This outstanding Vietnamese banh mi includes duck pate and spicy pickles along with, less conventionally, five-spice-flavored bacon and a fried egg.

This irresistible breakfast is a hybrid of an egg salad sandwich and an Egg McMuffin. It combines spicy, pickle-laced egg salad on a toasted English muffin with warm smoky ham and crispy frisee.

These next-level breakfast sandwiches get their perfect salty-sweet balance from the addition of peach jam. If you don't have ripe peaches, try the recipe with plums or apricots.

This version of the classic breakfast sandwich--topped with bacon, a fried egg and cheddar cheese--is quick and easy to make.