Best Avocado Toast with Egg
Best Avocado Toast with Egg – Take avocado toast to the next level by adding an egg and your favorite toppings! You’ll love these easy tips and ideas to brighten your breakfast routine.
The Best Avocado Toast with Egg Recipe
Chances are good, that if you’ve been on social media in the last couple of years, you’ve heard about (or tasted) Avocado Toast.
This wonderfully #basic dish is made by lightly toasting slices of bread and loading them with sliced, or mashed, avocado. But why stop there??
There are so many ways to make this recipe. We love to add an egg and zesty toppings to make what’s typically a simple meal seem special. In this post, we share two unique topping suggestions to prepare avocado toast at home for a fresh and filling breakfast, brunch, lunch, or afternoon snack.
These easy recipes are not only delicious, but Avocado Toast with Egg is also a great way to start your day with a balanced hearty meal. Give them a try the next time you need a tasty morning boost!
Ingredient List That You Need
For standard avocado toast with egg you only need 3 basic ingredients:
- Bread – the best bread for avocado toast is a variety that is sliced thick, such as country bread, sourdough, or potato bread
- Avocado – fresh and ripe
- Eggs – your choice of hard-boiled, scrambled, or fried
Additional Suggested Toppings
Top your Avocado Toast with Egg however you like! Here are the ingredients you need to prepare our two favorite varieties:
- Fresh and healthy: Microgreens, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper
- Tex-Mex spicy: Diced tomatoes, Cholula hot sauce, and crumbled queso fresco
How to Make Avocado Toast with Egg
This light yet filling breakfast, brunch, or protein-rich snack is ready in only 15 minutes.
First, slice the bread and toast according to your preferences: You can use a toaster, toaster oven, or standard oven set at 400 degrees F.
Meanwhile, cook your eggs however you like: hard-boiled, scrambled, poached, fried, or sunny-side-up in a pan or skillet.
Next, cut the avocado in half and remove the pit. Then cut each half in half, to create 4 equal sections. Use a fork to smash each avocado section, and then smear the avocado mash flesh over each piece of toast.
Top each piece of toast with a cooked egg.
Then add your preferred toppings and spices (salt and everything but the bagel seasoning are popular). Enjoy the toast right away.
Get the Complete (Printable) Recipe Below. Enjoy!
Frequently Asked Questions
What other toppings can I add?
Feel free to add just about any other toppings you like! Some other goodies we like are shredded or grated cheeses, crumbled blue cheese, chopped onion, crumbled cooked bacon, salmon lox, Greek yogurt, radishes, red pepper flakes, honey, Everything Bagel Seasoning – even Canadian bacon and pineapple. Play around with other fresh herbs, too, like chopped cilantro, dill, or scallions.
Can I use guacamole to make this recipe?
Sure! You can top your toast with homemade guacamole or your favorite store-bought brand.
How do I make vegan Avocado Toast with plant-based eggs?
This recipe is easy to make vegan-friendly simply by using your preferred eggless “scrambled egg” mix.
Can avocado toast be made ahead?
Nope. Avocado starts to brown as it sits out, so it’s best to eat it soon after preparing this recipe.
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- How to Make French Toast
- Mexican Breakfast Casserole
- Ultimate Breakfast BLT
Check out the printable recipe card below for the nutrition facts including calories, protein, saturated fat, and fiber.
The Best Avocado Toast with Egg
Ingredients
For the Avocado Toast with Egg –
- 4 thick slices bread country bread, sourdough, potato bread
- 1 ripe avocado
- 4 large eggs hard-boiled, scrambled, or fried
Avocado Toast Toppings Option 1 –
- Micros greens
- Lemon pepper
- Cayenne pepper
Avocado Toast Toppings Option 2 –
- Diced tomato
- Cholula hot sauce
- Queso fresco crumbled
Instructions
- Slice the bread and toast according to your preferences, using a toaster, toaster oven, or standard oven set at 400 degrees F.
- Cook you eggs according to preference: hard-boiled, scrambled, poached, fried, or sunny-side-up.
- Cut the avocado in half. Remove the pit. Then cut each half in half, to create 4 equal sections. Use a fork to smash each avocado section, then smear the smashed avocado over each piece of toast.
- Top each piece of toast with a cooked egg. Then add your preferred toppings. Serve immediately.
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Notes
- Bacon and blue cheese
- Radishes and Everything Bagel seasoning
- Canadian bacon and pineapple
So sweet!
thank you, I prefer with egg, even before avo toast was a big deal I liked egg on toast and now especially for balance of some protein with the avo and bread
Try feta cheese topping with balsamic vinegar glaze; can also top with an egg. Very yummy. :-)