Easy Mashed Avocado Toast with Fried Egg Recipe

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Fried Egg Avocado Toast Recipe

Ah, it’s time for a breakfast recipe! It feels like I haven’t made one in so long! I think some breakfast inspiration is long overdue, what do you think?

Let me tell you how this recipe came to be. There are two (well, three technically!) sources that inspired me to make this toast.

Hello, my name is Anadi if you didn’t know that yet! This fun toast combo was inspired from an exciting YouTube collaboration called #firstinitialfood2021, hosted by Sarah from the channel Home Sweet Holmes! The idea behind the collaboration is to create a dish with as many ingredients that start with the same letter of your first name. Actually, if you’re following along on the blog, my latest recipe before this one is Aloo Baingan Sabji, and this was an entry for the collaboration too! Aloo Baingan Sabji is a potato & eggplant curry, and the ingredients that start with the letter A are “aloo,” for potatoes, “asafoetida,” which is hing, “aubergine,” also known as eggplant!, and “ajwain” - carom seeds - which I’ve included as a special touch I added to my paratha bread recipe to serve with the curry. I highly recommend you check out my aloo baingan recipe if you want to know what to make for a healthy Indian vegetarian dinner tonight! But I know right now you’re here for breakfast!

Avocado is obviously the main ingredient for this delicious breakfast. But, we’re going to top our toast with agave syrup and some toasted almonds. Furthermore, if you want to get granular, in Hindi “egg” is “anda,” so another ingredient with the letter “A”! I was originally going to put an apple too, but I didn’t think the apple would go with all the other toppings over the egg.

Where did the idea of the fried egg come from? About a week before creating this recipe, my sister proudly called me and shared her latest favorite breakfast combo - avocado toast with a fried egg, topped with honey. I was going to call her to ask exactly how she makes it right before preparing my variation on it just so I could get the inspiration from her method and make it my own, but she told me it was actually her friend’s recipe! Well, her friend sure is a genius! So, the mashing of the avocado and the crispy fried egg comes from my sister’s friend, thank her for those elements of this Mashed Avocado Toast with Fried Egg! I’m just going to switch it up by using agave syrup for the sweetener, and adding the toasted almonds for a bit of texture.

Why Make Fried Egg Avocado Toast?

This combo is honestly amazing! I made two toasts - one for dinner (yup, breakfast for dinner!), and one for the next morning. Actually, I made two because the egg for one broke while I was filming the recipe, so I had to do another one. But I’m glad I got to relive it the next morning after filming! While I don’t quite recommend you make this avocado toast ahead of time, it did reheat decently and it was good the next morning! If you really want to meal prep it, you could for a day ahead of time!

You may find that the agave syrup over the egg is a bit of an odd combination. But it’s not at all! I’m going to sprinkle some chili flakes on top to balance the sweetness, and the toasted almonds add some texture to our toast.

If you love savory breakfasts then I definitely recommend this! It shouldn’t take longer than 10 minutes to prepare, so if you’re in a hurry, you can still treat yourself to a satisfying and nutritious breakfast!

Picking the Perfect Avocado!

Avocados are the heart of any avocado toast, of course! You don’t want a bad avocado or else the whole toast will be ruined! That’s no good! You want to have a perfectly ripe avocado to make your avocado toast. Here’s how to select the perfect avocado at the grocery store:

• Pick avocados that are black and not green, although in some cases the greenish-black ones are ripe as well
• Press the avocado lightly, it should give in but also offer some resistance. If it doesn’t press in at all, or presses in too quickly/easily, stay away.
• If you are purchasing avocados in bulk, it’s not a bad idea to pick some unripe ones.

If you’re planning on making your avocado toast for breakfast this morning, then make sure you have your avocado ready to eat. If you’re going to have the avocado toast in a couple of days, then you can purchase an avocado as described in the second bullet.

How Not to Cut an Avocado

Oh my, I’ve seen some really cringe-worthy ways of cutting an avocado! For the sake of your fingers, please DON’T do these!

• Cut the avocado straight through, down to the pit/seed
• Strike the pit with a sharp knife but striking your thumb instead.. ouch!

Tips for the Best Fried Egg Avocado Toast

• Use the freshest, ripest avocado on a wholesome toast.
• Cook the fried egg until the yolk is runny and creamy.
• Season evenly with salt, pepper, chili flakes and agave nectar.
• Freshly toast your almonds and roughly chop to sprinkle.

Tools Needed

• Nonstick pan
• Toaster
• Fork
• Cutting board
• Spatula

Ingredients for Mashed Avocado Toast with Fried Egg

As we’ve seen, about half the ingredients for this Fried Egg with Avocado Toast are simple pantry staples. Perhaps you already have everything on hand at home, which would be amazing!

• Bread: I recommend a bread that’s thick and crusty with a wide surface area. Here I’m using rye bread, but you could also use Italian bread or Sourdough is a bit thin and small, so your toppings may not hold well.
• Avocado: Well, I hope an avocado is going to be a part of avocado toast! Your avocado should be perfectly ripe and ready to eat. The avocado makes an amazing creamy base on our toast, and will be the bed for our fried egg.
• Egg: I’ll be frying the egg here, and this will be on top of our mashed avocado. This is no ordinary fried egg though! I’m actually going to make it crispy! Trust me, you’ll love it!
• Chili flakes: Chili flakes are added here to balance out the sweetness from the agave syrup and a little touch of heat.
• Agave syrup: A little drizzle over the egg will really go a long way!
• Almonds: Some toasted almonds will give some texture to our toast. With the avocado and egg alone, I find that it’ll be creaminess on creaminess. The almonds add a great little crunch that will balance out the smooth textures of the egg and avocado.
• Salt and pepper: To taste.

How to Make an Amazing Fried Egg Avocado Toast

How to Make the Toasted Almonds

1. Toss the almonds in an oven heating at 425°F for 5-8 minutes
2. Otherwise, place almonds in a pan and sauté on medium heat for 5-10 minutes
3. Toast almonds until they are roasted.

How to Fry the Egg

1. In a pan on medium heat, add butter and let it melt.
2. Crack an egg and cook on medium heat until the eggs are lightly browned at the top. Season with salt and pepper
3. Make sure the yolk is rich and creamy and runny.

Assembling the Avocado Toast

1. Place bread in a toaster and toast to your liking.
2. Using a quarter of an avocado for each slice of bread, mash with a fork and spread generously.
3. Season with salt and chili flakes, drizzle with agave nectar (or honey).
4. Roughly chop the toasted almonds and sprinkle on top
5. Top with fried egg and enjoy!

Savory Breakfast Ideas: Where This Avocado Toast Fits In

“Savory breakfast ideas” is a wide net, so it helps to say plainly what people usually mean by it — and which one this recipe is. Broadly there are five camps. There are egg plates: fried, scrambled, or an omelette like our fluffy classic French omelette or the creamy breakfast mushroom omelette. There are sandwiches and bagels, from a homemade breakfast sandwich to a bacon, egg and guacamole breakfast bagel or a veggie pizza bagel. There are wraps and burritos, like meal prep breakfast burritos. There is savory oatmeal and other grain bowls — oats, quinoa, or congee cooked with stock instead of milk and finished with an egg. And then there are toasts, which is where this recipe sits.

The dividing line most people are actually looking for is savory versus sweet breakfasts. Pastries, muffins, pancakes and waffles sit on the sweet side; eggs, whole grains, beans, tofu, cottage cheese, cream cheese and cured meats like bacon, ham, turkey or smoked salmon sit on the savory side. Vegetables belong there too — spinach, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, carrots, sweet potato and other root vegetables all roast or sauté into a savory breakfast without much work.

This toast is a slightly unusual entry on that list, because it does not sit cleanly in either camp. The base is savory — mashed avocado, salt, pepper, chili flakes and a fried egg — but there is a drizzle of agave syrup over the top. That is deliberate. If you have been hunting savory breakfast recipes and you want one that still has a little sweetness to it, this is the one to try. If you want it fully savory, leave the agave off; nothing else in the recipe depends on it.

Is Avocado Toast With a Fried Egg a Healthy Breakfast?

For two servings this recipe uses two slices of bread, half a medium avocado, two eggs, twelve almonds, a little butter for the pan, salt, pepper, chili flakes and a drizzle of agave syrup. That is a short list, and most of it is whole food rather than anything processed.

The avocado and the almonds are the healthy fats here, and they are the reason the toast keeps you full far longer than the same slice of bread with jam. If you are counting grams of protein, the two eggs do most of that work, with a little help from the almonds — which is exactly why the egg is not optional in this recipe. Use whole grains for the bread if that matters to you: the recipe calls for a thick, crusty slice with a wide surface area, and a seeded whole grain loaf, rye or sourdough all fit that description. If you avoid gluten, a sturdy gluten-free loaf works too, though you may want to toast it a shade darker so it holds the mashed avocado without going soft.

There is no dairy in this beyond the knob of butter used to fry the egg, and you can swap that for olive oil if you need to keep it dairy-free. For kids, leave the chili flakes off and keep the agave — the sweet-salty combination tends to go over well with children who will not touch a plain avocado toast.

Make-Ahead, Big Batch and Leftover Notes

Avocado toast is not a make-ahead breakfast in the way overnight oats are — mashed avocado browns and toast goes soft — but two parts of this recipe do batch well, and they are the two that take the longest.

The almonds are the obvious one. Toasting twelve almonds is the same amount of effort as toasting a cupful, whether you do it in a 425°F oven for 5 to 8 minutes or in a dry pan over medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes. Toast a big batch, cool them completely, and keep them in a sealed jar; then the toast comes together in the time it takes to fry an egg. The eggs themselves are quick enough that they are not worth prepping, and a fried egg does not survive the microwave gracefully — the yolk in this recipe is meant to stay rich and creamy, and reheating sets it hard.