What’s better than a fry up on a morning? This is my favourite breakfast to have on a Sunday after a nice lie in!
A full English breakfast is one of those breakfasts that I would usually have either on holiday or if I fancied something really naughty for breakfast.
When starting my slimming journey, I found most of my inspiration for meals on Instagram. Something that I saw time and time again was full English fry ups! I wasn’t sure how they were managing it, so looked into it a little further, as I couldn’t believe that eating this would help me lose weight.
As it turns out, with a little fry light and careful choice of brands, you can have everything for your breakfast in the picture above and have plenty of calories left for the rest of the day!
Who’s idea was it?
So who’s amazing idea was it to put all of these delicious foods onto one plate?
The traditional full English breakfast tradition started way back in the early 1300’s. It started initially with the Gentry, who were of a distinct social class made up of the ‘noble and distinguished’, landowners and families of long decent. The Gentry served their breakfast in their county houses using ingredients and recipes from Anglo Saxon methods. This is where the tradition began.
It later then became adopted by the Victorians, who demonstrated their wealth, good taste and social upbringing. The Victorians took it upon themselves to try and source the most exotic and traditional ingredients.
The breakfast then made its way through time, being adapted along the way and is now enjoyed all over the country and in other holiday destinations where the English can be found. It is not always served at breakfast time either, some traditionally have it around lunch time as a main meal.
If you are vegetarian, you can switch out the meat for Quorn or plant-based products! For example in the photo above I used Quorn sausages and Quorn bacon!
Make your own hash browns
Making your own hash browns is surprisingly easy. All you do really is grate potatoes and onion into a clean tea towel, and squeeze out any excess liquid. You then add egg, salt and pepper and form them into the shape you want before frying them! As I always have loads of potatoes in the house, this is something I might try myself so that I don’t need to syn my hash browns, making this dish even less syns than it already is!
Nutrition
If you’re concerned about calories and other nutritional facts, I can tell you that you don’t need to worry for this recipe. If you look at a full greasy fry-up, you’re probably expecting to be consuming around over 1000 calories. This recipe is only approximately 589 calories, and 3.1g of saturated fat. Not so bad for a ‘naughty’ breakfast huh?
Other breakfast ideas:
If you make this recipe, be sure to leave me a comment below letting me know what you think! Why not take a snap and tag me on Instagram? @thesliceofjess
*Calorific value may change depending on brands of food used*
Details
1 Serving
2 minutes
30 minutes
589
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Ingredients
2 Low Fat Pork Sausages
1 Hash Brown
1 Egg
2 Reduced Fat Bacon medallions
100g Mushrooms
1/2 tin Low Salt, Low Fat Baked beans
2 slices of wholemeal bread (Hovis Nimble is a great low calorie bread!)
Low Calorie Oil Spray
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees.
- Put your sausages and hash brown in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Slice the mushrooms into fairly thin slices.
- Spray a frying pan with spray oil and cook the bacon on a high heat, flipping occasionally until cooked.
- Add your mushrooms to the pan and fry until soft.
- Crack the egg into the frying pan and fry the egg sunny side up. I turn the heat right down and leave the egg to cook slowly. This is how I get the perfect fried egg!
- Put the baked beans into the microwave for 1 minute 30 seconds.
- Toast your bread and cut half.
- Assemble all the cooked ingredients onto a plate and enjoy this delicious classic!
Last updated: 20th October 2021
