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An Avocado Toast That’s Absolutely Smashing

Level up your avocado toast with bacon, lettuce, flaky sea salt, lime juice, and soft-boiled eggs for a delicious breakfast!

Jason Stahl

Feb 19, 2022

Californians think they created avocado toast, but it's the Aussies. Australian restaurateur Bill Granger, referred to as the “Godfather" of the avocado toast, is credited with starting this global phenomenon when he served his first one at his Sydney café in the early 1990s.


This is an image of smashed avocado toast. Harry & David ad for pantry products.

You can put anything you want on avocado toast (as long as it has avocado… and toast). This creamy and delicious version has all the right ratios of salt, fat, and acid. It combines two of the three BLT requirements — bacon and lettuce (though no harm done for adding the tomato) — with flaky sea salt, lime juice, and soft-boiled eggs on top of a Wolferman's English muffin. Radishes are added for some bitterness and that's countered with a sprinkling of Aleppo pepper, named for the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. It's more flavorful than red chile flakes and half as hot.

With avocado being the main ingredient for avocado toast, you must have a ripe one. To pick a ripe avocado, look for ones that have darker skins and when you gently press it, the avocado should give oh so slightly.

The avocado mash on a lightly toasted English muffin, along with the soft-boiled egg, makes for a quick, healthy meal that you may want to eat every morning.

Smashed Avocado Toast
Smashed Avocado Toast
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PREP TIME: 10 minutesCOOK TIME: 8 minutesTOTAL TIME: 18 minutes
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Ingredients

Instructions
    1
  • In a medium saucepan of boiling water, submerge whole eggs and cook for 7 minutes.
  • 2
  • Using a slotted spoon, transfer eggs to an ice bath.
  • 3
  • When cold, carefully peel eggs, cut into quarters, and set aside.
  • 4
  • Egg whites should be set and yolks should be thick and creamy.
  • 5
  • Meanwhile, in a medium frying pan over medium heat, cook bacon, flipping occasionally, for 5 minutes, or until crisp. Drain, reserving crisped bacon.
  • 6
  • In a medium bowl, combine avocados and lime juice.
  • 7
  • Using potato masher or fork, mash avocados to an even consistency.
  • 8
  • Season with salt.
  • 9
  • Spoon avocado mixture evenly over each toasted Wolferman’s English Muffin half, top with two quarters of soft-boiled egg, bacon, 3 radish slices, and some frisée.
  • 10
  • Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, and Aleppo pepper and serve.

Notes

Make-Ahead: Soft-boiled eggs can be cooked and peeled up to one day ahead, covered and refrigerated.

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