Breakfast Muffin Fry-Up
Equipment
- Air fryer tray
- Knife
- Small bowl
- spoon
Ingredients
- 4 English muffins
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- 800 g mushrooms roughly chopped
- Sea salt flakes to taste
- Black pepper freshly ground, to taste
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 4 tomatoes halved horizontally
- 8 sausages
- 8 hash browns
- 4 eggs
- 8 bacon rashers
- 800 g baked beans optional
Instructions
- Preheat the air fryer to 180°C.
- Split the English muffins in half. Take one half of each muffin and use a small round cutter or knife to cut a circle from the centre, leaving a 2 cm thick ring.
- Toast both the whole muffin halves and rings in the air fryer for 5–6 minutes. Remove them and spread butter over the whole muffin halves. Place a toasted ring on top of each one to create a raised border. Set aside.
- Toss the mushrooms with the olive oil and season with sea salt and black pepper.
- Cook the sausages in the air fryer for 4 minutes, until beginning to soften. Add the tomato halves and mushrooms and cook for a further 4 minutes.
- Add the bacon rashers and hash browns and cook for another 4 minutes.
- Place a prepared muffin in a small cup or ramekin. Carefully pour an egg into the centre of the muffin and place it in the air fryer. Repeat with the remaining muffins and eggs.
- Cook for 6 minutes, or until the eggs are cooked to your liking.
- Spoon the mushrooms over the tomatoes. Place the bacon over the sausages and arrange everything in the basket.
- Cook for a final 3 minutes.
- If using baked beans, heat them separately and serve alongside the breakfast.
Notes & Wine Advice
Serving Advice
Serve the Breakfast Muffin Fry-Up immediately while the egg is warm and the muffin is still crisp. Add the optional baked beans for a more substantial meal. It is ideal for a leisurely Breakfast or Brunch.Storage Advice
This dish is best eaten immediately, particularly because of the cooked egg and toasted muffin. Leftover sausages, bacon, mushrooms and hash browns can be cooled and refrigerated separately in airtight containers for up to 2 days. Reheat thoroughly in the air fryer before serving. Find more practical ideas in our Store Food recipes.Wine Advice
If serving this fry-up for brunch, a glass of crisp, sparkling Cava is a surprisingly good match. Its fresh acidity and bubbles cut through the richness of the bacon, sausage and egg while refreshing the palate between bites.Nutrition values
————————————————————————————————–
About this recipe
The Breakfast Muffin Fry-Up takes the familiar ingredients of a hearty cooked breakfast and gives them a clever air fryer twist. Instead of simply serving an egg alongside toast, an English muffin is transformed into a small edible basket that holds the egg while it cooks. Add sausages, bacon, mushrooms, tomato and hash browns and you have a substantial breakfast that brings several classic flavours together on one plate.
This recipe fits naturally into our collection of England recipes. Although it is not a traditional full English breakfast in the strictest sense, many of its most recognisable ingredients are present. Baked beans can also be added for anyone who wants to take the breakfast another step in that direction.
A complete breakfast from the air fryer
One of the advantages of this recipe is that most of the cooking takes place in the Airfryer. The ingredients are added in stages because they require different cooking times. Sausages go in first, followed by the tomatoes and mushrooms. Bacon and hash browns are added later, allowing everything to finish cooking at roughly the same time.
The English muffin is the playful centrepiece. After splitting the muffin, a circle is removed from one half to create a thick ring. Toasting the muffin before assembling it gives it enough structure to support the egg. The ring is placed on top of the buttered muffin base, creating a border that helps keep the raw egg in place during cooking.
For more morning inspiration, browse our Breakfast recipes. The combination of bacon and egg also makes this a good fit alongside our Bacon recipes and Eggs recipes.
Perfect for a relaxed weekend breakfast
This is not really a grab-and-go breakfast. It is much better suited to a weekend morning when there is time for something substantial. Serve each person one egg-filled muffin with sausages, bacon, mushrooms, tomato and hash browns. Warm baked beans can be added on the side if desired.
The recipe is also well suited to Brunch, particularly when breakfast is being served later in the morning. Because several components are involved, preparing the ingredients before starting the air fryer makes the cooking process considerably easier.
The egg can be cooked according to personal preference. A slightly shorter cooking time produces a softer yolk, while leaving it in the air fryer longer gives a firmer result. Always make sure meat products are cooked safely before serving. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides additional information about safe food preparation and handling at home.
With its crisp muffin, warm egg and generous collection of traditional breakfast favourites, the Breakfast Muffin Fry-Up is a fun way to turn a familiar cooked breakfast into something a little different while making excellent use of the air fryer.