Smashed Avocado Recipe

Smashed Avocado recipe with gooey egg is lifechanging!  How good are easy avocado recipes like our Simple Avocado Toast. The combo of avocado and egg on toast works to get you leaping out of bed!! 

If you love a breakfast recipe with eggs, you will enjoy the Zucchini Slice Muffins or Zucchini Frittata. For a freezer friendly breakfast that you can have either hot or cold try the Zucchini Slice or Zucchini and Bacon Slice.

This is an easy breakfast recipe that works for brunch or lunch. Healthy avocado breakfast ideas are THE BEST!!

If you are an avocado fan, you will also enjoy the Salmon Avocado Toast recipe! Hearty breakfast fans, try the Chipolatas with Baked Beans.

How long does smashed avocado last?

Smashed Avocado is  fragile recipe and is best made at the time of serving.

In my experience whilst the lemon juice does extend the life of the avocado and the old wives tail of squeezing more lemon juice onto our avo preserves it, I think it is best made and eaten on the same day. 

Guacamole is a little bit different as there are a few more ingredients in there. Not to worry though as when you make this, you won't have any left over to keep in the fridge as it is so delicious!!

Avocado toast toppings

The egg is a delicious way to top your avocado toast with a little something extra. 

A few other toppings you can consider are:

• bacon
• tomatoes
• haloumi
• mushrooms
• chilli
• feta

It is up to you to decide if you want to stick to a vegetarian breakfast or go the full big breakfast with loads of sides that we all know and love!

Smashed Avocado recipe that uses easy ingredients!

We use simple, basic ingredients to make our egg on avocado toast. 

The aim is for an easy to follow recipe that takes avocado, eggs, sourdough and creates deliciousness on toast.

Smashing the avocado and getting some flavour in there from the lemon is the perfect way to have an ultra delicious breakfast. 

The crunchy toasted topping of the seeds provides texture and the eggs provide an ooey gooey delight.

Ingredients

The ingredients for our smashed avocado recipe are basic, tasty and healthy. You can see each ingredient you will need in the photo below:

Ingredients needed are:

• avocado
• eggs
• sourdough
• lemon
• sunflower seeds
• sesame seeds
• butter
• sriarcha (optional - hot stuff baby!) 
• salt
• pepper

You can use any bread you like. My favourite is multigrain sourdough, what is yours?

How do you make Smashed Avocado

Making Smashed Avocado is EASY (it is also pretty fun)  Think healthy and nourishing. 

To begin with, we need to prepare our avocado.

Australians call Avocado 'Avo' generally! Similar to Australians being 'Aussies!! We shorten everything.

The photo below shows you the 16 simple steps we take to make this recipe.

The steps are quick and easy, but I wanted to show you each of them so your Smashed Avocado can be the bomb diggity!

Here is how to make Smashed Avocado recipe steps:

1. Cut your avos or avocado in halves (shown in photos1 )
2. Cut your lemon into wedges (shown in photo 2) 
3. Avocado into a mixing bowl and smash with a fork (shown in photos 3 and 4)
4. Add salt, pepper and freshly squeezed lemon juice to your avo (shown in photos 5, 6 and 7)
5. Smash your avo again to mix it all in (shown in photo 8) 
6. Butter your bread (shown in photo 9) 
7. Toast your bread (shown in photo 10) 
8. Scoop smashed avocado onto toast (shown in photo 11)
9. Spread smashed avocado onto toast (shown in photo 12)
10. Sprinkle toasted seeds onto avocado toast (photo 13 and 14)
11. Boil eggs and place on smashed avocado toast (shown in photo 15)
12. Drizzle sriarcha on smashed avocado toast (shown in photo 16)

Seriously guys, this is such simple and tasty recipe! Plus it takes less than 15 mins to make.

Before we move on, I just want to draw your attention to something I know you will be curious about in the photo above. Photo 10 is where to look. On the left is a piece of sourdough that I sprayed with cooking oil and on the right is a piece of sourdough that I spread butter on. I did this to show you the difference in using either of these 2 methods.

My favourite is the butter as I find it toasts the bread to a point of deliciousness that the spray oil doesn't get to (albeit not as healthy, but is more buttery and crispy, ie more 'YUM!')

Smashed Avocado recipe with 2 essential steps

The photo with the 16 steps to make this recipe above is a summary from start to finish. Of those 16 steps there are 2 essential steps that are where the method makes the deliciousness of the dish.

I have highlighted these in the photo below.

You can see on the left I am squeezing fresh lemon juice onto the avocado. This gives it a zesty freshness that works. On the right I am showing you our smashed avocado. Taking a fork and continually smashing or mashing the avocado changes the texture of it and it becomes smooth and buttery. Otherwise known as darn tasty too!

Whilst all of the steps are necessary, these are the 2 that I implore you focus on as that time well spent, delivers on the plate.

Instructions to make smashed avocado sourdough

As you can see we:

• prepare our avocado and lemon
• season the avocado
• smash the avocado flesh
• toast our sourdough
• load our sourdough with smashed avocado
• pop our egg onto our toast 
• drizzle sriracha and toasted seeds on top

You will end up with smashed avocado toast that is better than you can buy at your local cafe.

Don't be suprised if your every weekend 'to-do list' starts with 1. Make Smashed Avocado Toast after you try this recipe for the 1st time.

FAQs to make your Smashed Avocado Toast 

1. The sourdough is toasted
2. The avocado is smashed in a separate bowl and spooned on top
3. if any lemon seeds fall into the avocado, scoop them out
4. Butter only one side of each bread slice

Smashed Avocado Toast quick info:

About the recipe:

• this is a vegetarian recipe
• the sriarcha is optional (it is a hot sauce)
• toasting the seeds makes their flavour shine
• you can add some herbs on top for colour and texture

Your quick questions answered:

1. Smashed Avocado Toast has crispy bread and buttery avocado
2. You can use spray oil if you prefer
3. Fried eggs also work well
4. This is an EASY recipe

Expert smashed avocado cooking tips:

These are my best tips for this recipe:

• choose ripe avocados
• use freshly squeezed lemons
• runny egg yolk gets absorbed by the toasted bread
• keep an eye on the seeds as they toast quickly

📖 Recipe

Published 2nd October 2019, updated 26th April 2020 with additional tips!

Inspiring Egg recipes

Avocado recipes are tasty and delicious, but they are not always in season. I find that I make heaps of avocado recipes when they are in season and then make more egg recipes for breakfast when they are not. Eggs are always available so it gives me reliable go to recipes. 

The best thing is you can mix it up. You can serve this smashed avocado recipe with egg, without egg or egg on the side.

Sometimes you might want to make it with sourdough and sometimes rye bread, go for it, whatever floats your boat at the time will work.

Avocado and scrambled egg is another popular option and one to use if this becomes your go to weekend breakfast, but you still want to spice it up a bit every now and then. You might like avocado toast with hard boiled egg instead of runny every once in a while. Changing the way the eggs are cooked will achieve that.

As always, give me a shout if you want me to expand on anything. I am here, in my kitchen and together, we have got this.

Adrianne xx