# Avocado Toast with Jammy Eggs

Avocado Toast with Jammy Eggs — a easy recipe with 4 main ingredients, ready in about 15 min and serving 2. Check which of its ingredients are on sale at grocery stores near you.

- **Time:** 15 min
- **Serves:** 2
- **Difficulty:** easy
- **Tags:** breakfast, quick, healthy, vegetarian
- **Source:** https://savingrecipes.com/recipes/avocado-toast-eggs

## Ingredients

- 2 ripe avocados
- 4 slices sourdough
- 2 eggs
- 1 lemon
- Red pepper flakes _(pantry staple)_
- Salt & pepper _(pantry staple)_

## Instructions

1. Boil eggs 7 min; peel and halve.
2. Toast bread; mash avocado with lemon juice and salt.
3. Spread, top with eggs, and finish with pepper flakes.

## Tips

- 7 minutes exactly, then straight into ice water. That's the window for a jammy yolk — 6 is runny, 9 is chalky.
- Toast the bread darker than you think. Avocado is soft and the egg is soft; without a genuinely crisp base the whole thing is texturally flat.
- Salt the avocado properly and add the lemon before spreading. Unsalted avocado is why avocado toast is so often disappointing.

## Substitutions

- **Sourdough:** Any sturdy bread with a firm crumb. Gluten-free bread works if toasted twice. Soft sandwich bread collapses under the weight.
- **Avocado:** Mashed white beans with olive oil and lemon are a genuine and much cheaper substitute with a similar texture.
- **Eggs:** Poached, fried, or soft-scrambled. Or skip them and add feta or smoked salmon.
- **Red pepper flakes:** Za'atar, everything bagel seasoning, dukkah, or hot sauce — something with texture or heat to finish.

## Storage & reheating

Assemble and eat; avocado browns and toast softens within minutes. Boiled eggs keep a week in their shells, so doing those ahead turns this into a 4-minute breakfast.

## Common questions

### How do I pick a ripe avocado?

It should yield to gentle pressure in your palm, not your fingertips, which bruise it. Flick off the small stem nub — green underneath means ripe, brown means overripe.

### How do I peel soft-boiled eggs without wrecking them?

Ice water immediately, then crack all over and peel under running water. Older eggs peel far more easily than very fresh ones.

### Why does my avocado brown so fast?

Oxidation. Lemon or lime juice slows it considerably, which is why it's in the recipe rather than just for flavour.


_Photo: Sarah Stierch — CC BY 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avocado_toast_at_the_girl_%26_the_fig_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg)_