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Smashed avocado toast is a very common breakfast in Australia, perhaps the most common, and throughout the 2010s, and still today, the rest of the world recognized this is how they should start their day, too.
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.
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.
SERVINGS
- 4 large eggs
- 4 slices thick-cut bacon (cut into small pieces)
- 3 avocados (peeled, pitted)
- 1 lime (juiced)
- 4 Wolferman’s San Francisco-Style Sourdough Super Thick English Muffins (split, toasted)
- 2 red radishes (sliced into thin rounds)
- 1 head frisée lettuce (yellow leaves picked and reserved)
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper
- In a medium saucepan of boiling water, submerge whole eggs and cook for 7 minutes.
- Using a slotted spoon, transfer eggs to an ice bath.
- When cold, carefully peel eggs, cut into quarters, and set aside.
- Egg whites should be set and yolks should be thick and creamy.
- Meanwhile, in a medium frying pan over medium heat, cook bacon, flipping occasionally, for 5 minutes, or until crisp. Drain, reserving crisped bacon.
- In a medium bowl, combine avocados and lime juice.
- Using potato masher or fork, mash avocados to an even consistency.
- Season with salt.
- 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.
- Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, and Aleppo pepper and serve.
Make-Ahead: Soft-boiled eggs can be cooked and peeled up to one day ahead, covered and refrigerated.
AUTHOR
Jason Stahl is an Emmy Award winner who has reported on just about everything from the future of terrorism to North Korean tourism and why Las Vegas is great for kids. He’s interviewed countless personalities from Gene Simmons to Common to Sir Richard Branson. He’s held editorships at WONDERLUST, SPIN, Google, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, MSN News, NBC Sports and Centennial Media. Stahl’s the co-author of 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Everything: Duct Tape, Airport Security, Your Body, Sex in Space… And More. The aspiring deli man lives with his wife and son in Jersey City Heights where he operates Hank Schwartz’s Delicatessen & Appetizing.