Breakfast Ideas to Make in Your Pizza Oven

As the colder weather approaches, hosting a pizza party might not be on your to-do list. But does that mean you should tuck your Igneus Pizza Oven up over winter? We certainly don’t think so. Instead, why not think of new, innovative ways to use it? Cooking breakfast in your pizza oven in one such way. In this blog we’ll give you our favourite breakfast pizza oven ideas. Let’s dive in.

Classic Wood-Fired Full English Breakfast

Let’s start with a classic, shall we? Who doesn’t love a full English breakfast, especially on a cold, crisp Autumn morning. In fact, scrap that, a full English breakfast doesn’t even have to be for breakfast – it’s a thing to behold at any time of the day! Grab yourself all your favourite fry up ingredients, and a quality cast iron pan to cook it all in. We recommend starting with the meat, i.e. the bacon and the sausages. Once they’re cooking away, you can start to add the mushrooms, fresh tomatoes, and eggs to the pan. Don’t be worried about using the same pan here. Not only does it make your life easier and creates less washing up, it also means the wonderful flavour of the bacon fat is used to cook the other ingredients – meaning your breakfast is even more tasty! If you’re making toast to go alongside your full English, check out this Toast Iron here.

The ideal oven temperature for this one is around 180°C.

What you’ll need

• Olive oil
• Quality pork sausages
• Rashers Good quality bacon
• Eggs
• Tin baked beans
• Tomatoes
• Mushrooms
• Bread (for fried bread or toast)

Wood Fired French Toast

Who doesn’t love a bit of French Toast? Yes, it’s an indulgent treat, but hell, if you’re going to fire up the pizza oven to make breakfast, you might as well make it naughty, hadn’t you? This one’s also great for getting the kids involved too as they love to get their hands in the mix and dipping in the bread. We always recommend you use good quality fresh bread for this, cut into half inch slices. Whole wheat bread works well, but if you like yours to be extra sweet you could also use brioche.

For the batter mix whisk together eggs, milk, maple syrup, vanilla extract, salt, sugar & cinnamon. Submerge each slice of bread into the mix, and let the slices soak up the mixture for 5 minutes or so. The idea is you leave it just enough time for the bread to soak up the mixture without it going so soggy that you can’t handle it.

Add butter to as cast-iron pan and heat through in the oven. You’ll want the oven temperature to be around 180°C. Top the soaked bread with berries of your choice. We like to use blueberries. Then add to the pan and bake until golden brown.

What you’ll need

• Bread
• Eggs (2 large)
• 120ml Milk
• 40ml Maple syrup
• Vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)
• Ground cinnamon (1/4 teaspoon, optional)
• Sugar (1 tablespoon, optional for added sweetness)
• Butter (for frying)
• Salt (a pinch)
• Fresh berries of your choice

Wood Fired Waffles

Before we start, it has to be said you’ll need a waffle pan for this one. Luckily, we sell them! So, you can check them out here.

Waffles look way more impressive than they actually are, so if you’re after impressing your friends and family with a show stopping breakfast that looks like you’ve put in way more effort than you have – this is one for you!

To make the mix, simply whisk all the ingredients together and leave to stand at room temperature for around an hour. Then pop the mixture in the fridge. A nice little tip is to make the batter mix the day before you need it and keep it in the fridge overnight. It makes for a better flavour and lighter texture to your waffles.

Bring the batter mix out of the fridge before you fire up the oven. This will give it enough time to come up to room temperature. When your pizza oven is up to temperature, lightly oil the waffle pan, and heat it up in the oven. Add a ladle of batter mix to the preheated pan, then close it and add it back to the oven. The waffles will take around 3-4 minutes to cook through.

The beauty of waffles is they can be served with either sweet or savoury toppings. If you’re making your waffles savoury, just omit the sugar from the mix. We like to serve our waffles with Greek yogurt and fresh fruit. Nutella and whipped cream goes down a treat with the kids though!

What you’ll need

• 250g plain flour
• 15g sugar
• 10g baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 450ml whole milk
• Melted butter
• 5ml vanilla extract

Final Thoughts

We hope you give one of our breakfast pizza oven ideas ago. As ever, we’d love to see your breakfast creations, so tag us in on socials! Watch our ovens in action on our YouTube Channel.If you require any information about any oven in the Igneus range, or any accessories that we’ve mentioned throughout this, you can contact us on 01423 575885 or browse our full range of products here.