14 Green Breakfast Recipes to Start Your Day off Right

This breakfast is hearty and keeps us fueled and energized until lunch.

It’s amazing what a few flavorful ingredients can do when it comes to getting out of a breakfast rut. Greek yogurt, garlic, and greens come together to give these scrambled eggs a tasty (and healthy) makeover.

It’s pretty flexible recipe.

A tartine is really just a fancy name for an open-faced sandwich.

This hits all the crucial flavor points — savory eggs and spinach, sweetly acidic tomatoes, and salty feta cheese — while staying nutritionally well-rounded. One of these wraps plus a hot cup of coffee, and I’m set until at least noon.

Warm eggs cooked over a bed of garlicky leeks and greens with tangy feta cheese, all served with crusty bread.

This is tangles of tender collards cooked with bacon (and yes, oh yes, bacon fat), sharing a plate with soft polenta and a perfectly fried egg.

Fresh parsley, cilantro, chives, and dill are the stars of this recipe, though you can substitute leeks, scallions, tarragon, spinach, or other tender greens that you have on hand.

A no-stir, practically hands-off way to make a hearty breakfast that will last you all week.

With leftovers from a lovely dinner – asparagus, zucchini, dinner rolls, and Havarti cheese – and other ingredients I had on hand, I put together this simple-but-satisfying breakfast strata for our host and fellow guests.

This recipe for mini breakfast quiches with their easy flax crust is the perfect example.

Super-Power Morning Smoothie makes you feel balanced and graceful. May your days be productive and peaceful, and may you bring great energy and magic to whatever your work might be.

Green smoothies get a lot of attention for “detox” or “cleanse” purposes, but I offer this recipe simply because it’s delicious. Packed with immune-boosting ingredients — like spinach, pear, and ginger — it’s bright and invigorating, yet not teeth-chatteringly cold.

Kale and quinoa are two of the trendiest pieces of the modern stereotypically healthy diet, but that really isn’t their fault.