This delicious Fried Egg Breakfast Sandwich Recipe combines eggs, American cheese, and smoked ham layered between buttered slices of bread grilled to perfection. You can whip one together in just a few minutes, and it tastes like heaven!
You can easily customize these to suit your taste by swapping cheese or adding ham, crispy bacon, or cooked sausage patties. My family and I are huge breakfast nuts. We love eggs. We love them scrambled, easy over, hard-boiled, poached, and sunny side up. This breakfast sandwich is so quick and simple. If you like this recipe, try ham and cheese quiche, Denver omelet, and egg frittata.
Ingredient Notes and Substitutions
See the complete list of ingredients below on the recipe card.
- Bread: Use good quality bread. It does make a difference. Try it on hearty multi-grain bread, sourdough, whole wheat bread, bagels, or split English Muffins.
- Cheese: Don’t skip the cheese. It brings everything together and makes it taste even better. Try cheeses like cheddar, white American, Swiss, Havarti, Pepper Jack, Colby, or Monterey Jack.
- Ham: You can substitute bacon or sausage.
- Butter: Melted butter or mayonnaise makes the bread brown nicely and adds fabulous flavor. You can use salted or unsalted butter.
How to Make an Egg Sandwich
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- Assemble the bread, ham, and cheese.
- Cook the eggs over easy or sunny-side up, then add the cooked eggs to the sandwiches.
- Grill the sandwiches in a skillet until the cheese is melted and the bread is golden brown.
Perfect Pairings
- Potatoes: potatoes O’Brien, home fries, or potato croquettes.
- Salad: green goddess salad, rocket salad, or beet salad.
- Fruit: fried apples, summer fruit salad, or baked pears.
Preparation Tips for Success
- For a change of pace, top that sandwich with lettuce, arugula, tomato, onion, or mayo.
- If you like runny yolks, don’t push down on the sandwich. It will all come together as everything melts and browns like an egg in a grilled cheese sandwich.
- Cover the skillet loosely with foil so the cheese melts around the egg and is ready when the bread browns.
Recipe Variations
- Bacon and Monterey Jack
- Pepperoni and Mozzarella
- Brisket and Swiss
- Ham and Cheddar
- Leftover Meatloaf and Gruyere
- Sausage Patties and Gouda
Enough said. These sandwiches are a shoo-in with your family and perfect for school days. You can prepare them in minutes. You and yours will love them!
More Breakfast Recipes
Fried Egg Sandwich
Ingredients
- 2 slices white bread
- 1 slice white American cheese slices
- 1 slice yellow American cheese slices
- 2 slices thinly sliced deli ham
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Place one slice of white American on one side of the bread and one slice of yellow American on the other. Top each side with a thin piece of honey ham. Assemble the sandwiches so that, as you remove the eggs from the pan, you are ready to go.
- Cook one egg over easy per sandwich. Sprinkle with a pinch of kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Remove the eggs from the pan without overcooking and gently add one to each white American side of the bread. Add a pinch of salt and black pepper. Bring both sides of the sandwich together. Do not press down, or you will break the yolk.
- Heat skillet over medium-low heat. Brush each sandwich with melted butter. Place butter side down in skillet. Brush the top with melted butter. Cover loosely with aluminum foil. Cook until the bottom is browned. Flip and cook until the other side is browned and the cheese is gooey and melted.
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Notes
- For a change of pace, top that sandwich with lettuce, arugula, tomato, onion, or mayo.
- If you like runny yolks, don’t push down on the sandwich. It will all come together as everything melts and browns like an egg in a grilled cheese sandwich.
- Cover the skillet loosely with foil so the cheese melts around the egg and is ready when the bread browns.
Nutrition
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Jennifer
This is my kind of comfort food. I could eat this sandwich every day!
Jen
Sounds & looks good! My first husband taught me this in the 1970s. Before that, my Mom made a a different fried egg sandwich for lunch: white bread with mayonnaise and lettuce, topped with a hard fried egg, salt and pepper, and not grilled. It’s good, although not as glamorous!
Beth Pierce
Yes we eat those kind of egg sandwiches too. They are delicious with crisp bacon.
Matthew
Looks like a delicious sandwich. If I may make a suggestion . .
When I make a fried egg sandwich, I spread the yolks onto both pieces of bread with a knife. That allows the yolks to soak into the bread a little, so it does not run out of the sandwich.
Beth Pierce
Thank you! Thanks for the tip Matthew! That is a good one!!
Barb
I have been making this for many years now. And I add mango peach jelly to it for a topping. So good.
Beth Pierce
Sounds delicious!!
Natalie
Now, this is a sandwich I could eat & not get sick of!! Love the eggs oozing out!
Lily
Ohh this was a phenomenal breakfast, I love runny eggs in sandwiches, I think I will be having these for breakfast a lot more often now.
Katherine
Ooozy, gooey breakfast yumminess. Breakfast perfection.
Amy
Yum this looks like the perfect breakfast, I love how cheesy it is!
Shinta Simon
This is definitely going to be a favorite! I know it simply by looking at the image. And we have all the ingredients on hand at all times too. Thank you for sharing!
Gina
Love the runny egg in this breakfast sandwich – the best!