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5 Easy Avocado Toast Ideas for YOU

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Yum yum yum. Avocado toast. I love to make it! Because I am a millennial and never want to be able to buy a house! I’d rather spend my time creating easy avocado toasts so you can have some easy avocado toast ideas on hand.

Lol. All jokes aside, people who rip on avocado toast can shove it. Sure, it can be overpriced on brunch menus, but isn’t everything? Like people pay $8-20 for an omelet. And eggs are CHEAP AF.

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Anyways, here are a few avocado toast ideas for you. I hope you enjoy for a snack or breakfast or for lunch or for whatever!

Avocado Toast with Pomegranate Seeds

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An old favorite! And so cute and festive for the holidays. The recipe exists on my site here, but basically it’s just bread + avo + pomegranate perils. You can add red pepper flakes if you want too. Add S&P and: Yum!

Avocado Toast with Nutritional Yeast

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Yes. Simple and delicious. The nutritional yeast truly kicks it up a major notch. Try it. Trust me. Cheesy, umami goodness. Add S&P, of course. Yum. #vegan

Avocado Toast with Preserved Lemons and Radish

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This was better than expected. I had a jar of perserved lemons I had no idea what to do with. Honestly, I’d never even had them before. I opened them up and they tasted like olives. But lemon. It’s weird and wonderful at once.

They are super salty, so naturally they go well on avocado toast. I added radish. You could also do tomatoes. Whatever you want!…

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Christmas Avocado Toast [with Pomegranate Seeds + Red Pepper Flakes]

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Avocado toast is the epitome of what’s #trendy for food. I remember being surprised when I first moved to NYC, seeing it on cafe menus. I thought for some reason that I was a genius and had invented this snack. I didn’t. lol. It’s been around 5ever.

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I also remember being a little surprised by how much it cost. It’s like, $8 in a lot of cool cafes. And now it’s like a thing. Who has the best avocado toast? Is your bread homemade? What’s on top of it? The finest sea salt? The highest quality cracked pepper? Single origin olive oil?

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The one I had at LPQ this summer was amazing with some pickled vegetables and Tuscan olive oil and such. Other than that, I usually make avocado toast at home. Because it’s easy, fast, and costs about $7 less than when it’s purchased at a cafe.

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The other day I happened to be eating a pomegranate while making avocado toast. I decided adding some pomegranate seeds would make a nice color pop. My toast already had crushed red pepper flakes and sea salt on it, because that’s my go-to for avocado toast, so I kept all those babies in place with the pomegranate.

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I was a bit shocked at how delicious the tangy sweet pomegranate seeds played off the spicy pepper flakes and the creamy avocado. The sea salt, per usual, tied it all together, making the avocado flavor pop a bit. The first bite was like a discovery journey: “What’s happening in my mouth right now? so many different flavors and textures, but somehow they all work!! THIS IS AMAZING. MUST EAT MORE.” 

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So I did. This was my go-to lunch and/or snack all weekend long. I ate like 6 pieces of this exact. Toast. I then realized how festive and beautiful it looks for the holiday season and realized this would make a lovely and gorgeous appetizer on a party spread. It comes together quite quickly and with minimal prep, and who doesn’t love avocado toast? It’s such a win for the appetizer world. Just cut it into fancy triangles or something and you’d be good to go.

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Otherwise just make it like a holiday party every day in your mouth and make a slice for yourself. You will not regret this toast. Plus, think of how cool it’ll look on Instagram. #justsayin. Enjoy this energizing, nutrient packed toast for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and/or a snack. Eat up homies!

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Avocado Toast with Pomegranate Seeds

Prep Time: 1 minute

Cook Time: 1 minute (to toast bread)

Level: easy

Yield: one piece of avocado toast, can easily be doubled, tripled, or multiplied by 10 and cut into triangles for a party

Ingredients:

  • one slice whole grain bread or bread of choice
  • 1/4th medium avocado
  • 1/2  teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (a shake or two straight out of the shaker will do the trick)
  • 2 tablespoons fresh pomegranate seeds
  • dash sea salt

Directions:

1. Place bread in toaster. Allow to toast until desired toastiness is achieved.

2. Meanwhile, mash 1/4th avocado in a small bowl with a fork.

3. Remove toast from toaster. Sprinkle red chili pepper flakes and sea salt. Sprinkle and/or artistically decorate with pomegranate seeds.

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4. EAT. 🙂

Salted Maple Vanilla Cashew Coconut Butter

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….the name says it all. Basically everything luscious and wonderful all in one glorious place: a homemade jar of nut butter and very soon your mouth.

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Cashews have been my thing lately. Well, truly, they’ve always been up there on my top 5 fav nuts (along with walnut, pecans, pistachios, almonds, peanuts) for snacking and as a flavoring agent, but lately I’ve recently discovered just how ridiculously versatile they are from a culinary prospective. I’m very excited to start using them in new ways ~ ! Unfortunately for me, my pantry/fridge are almond empty and so I couldn’t make several of the things I’ve been itchin’ to try. So I took what I had once again, and created this concoction.

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The name makes it sound all fancy-smancy because I used the word “salted” but really this is a pretty basic nut butter. I made cashew butter, and instead of adding vegetable oil for viscosity the way many peanut butter recipes call for, I added coconut oil for smoothness, and for the additional flavor and nutritional boost. I thought vanilla would compliment the *~*tropical*~* flavors nicely, and decided to go with maple syrup for a touch of sweetness instead of sugar, and added salt because I really love a good sea salt. (I’m all about the pink Himalayan, hbu?). All of these flavors together was like a really great group bonding session. Everyone brought out the best in one another, and the result was a mild, smooth, sweet-salty, rich nutty delight, with a coconut after-kick.

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Homemade nut butters are fun and truly not very complicated to make. I like them because you can personalize them to your own tastes (I like things crunchy and a little bit salty, and not too sweet) but you can tweak them however you please and see exactly what goes in them (no hydrogenated palm kernel oil for me plz!). All you need is a few basic ingredients, a food processor or blender, and like 10 minutes. 60-80 if you’re highly distractible and have needy dogs and want to take photos for your blog and are having hopeful breakthroughs in what you should do with your life, like I did. Hello friends, I’m crazy.

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Anyways, I’d like to warn you: this stuff is addictive. I made it a lil crunchy because that’s my style. If you ask me, when it comes to nut butters once you go crunchy you never go back. This particular nut butt is absolutely magnificent on top of toast and bananas and on toast between bananas and smeared on chunks of chocolate or with pretzels or crackers or straight from the jar on a spoon or on my fingers (let’s be honest). No matter how you consume it, it’s pretty wonderful. It shall take you from the humid tropics of your backyard in Wisconsin or your tiny studio East Village apartment to a warm yet breezy climate controlled beach in the middle of paradise. Get out the drink umbrellas for your smoothies, children, today’s gonna be a good day 8-).

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