Avocado Toast with Honey Chipotle Sauce

Start your day with this bold and flavorful twist on a classic - avocado toast with fried egg, honey chipotle sauce, and pickled bell pepper. It's fresh, healthy, and delicious!

Avocado Toast

I'm always team avocado toast.

The buttery texture of the avocado paired with the crunch of well-toasted bread is sheer perfection.

And this version adds a little bit of heat and some pickled veg for good measure.

This recipe makes a lot of pickled bell peppers and green onions, more than you need for one slice of avocado toast. That's because it lasts in the fridge for two weeks and tastes amazing on tacos!

Key Ingredients

• Sourdough bread - My favorite type for avocado toast! You can use any kind of bread you like. Just make sure it's sturdy and you toast it real good. It should have a crispy, golden brown exterior when toasted.
• Avocado - This may be a given, but you want a ripe, Hass avocado. Florida avocados have a lower fat content and watery consistency. Look for an avocado that gives when you press into it, but isn't mushy!
• Lime - Don't skip the lime. It prevents the avocado from tasting flat.
• Egg - A fried egg adds protein and an instant sauce from the runny yolk.
• Chipotle sauce - This is the sauce in a can of chipotles in adobo.
• Honey - A little sweet heat, coming at ya!
• Pickled veg - For this version, I pickled yellow bell pepper and green onions!

How to Make the Pickled Veg

Pickling isn't just for cucumbers! You can pickle any vegetable - carrots, asparagus, beets, green beans, etc.

For this recipe, I pickled yellow bell pepper and green onion. This combo tastes great on avocado toast (and tacos!).

• Combine the pepper and green onions in a medium bowl.
• Heat the vinegar, water, salt, and sugar in a saucepan. You don't want it to boil. You just want it to get hot enough to dissolve the sugar and salt.
• Pour the mixture over the bell peppers and green onions. That's it!

Instructions

Once the veggies are pickled, you can set them aside and start your avocado toast.

• Mash the avocado with the lime juice and salt. Set aside.
• Make chipotle honey by whisking the chipotle sauce and honey together.

• Toast the sourdough. Don't be shy! The toast should be nice and crispy.
• Fry the egg in a hot skillet with a little bit of oil. Ideally the white should be cooked and the yolk runny. If you don't like a runny yolk, you can cook it longer, but you won't get that creamy sauce.

• Assemble the avocado toast. Spread the mashed avocado on the toast. Add the fried egg, the honey chipotle sauce, and a spoonful of pickled veggies.
• Enjoy immediately! You don't want the toast to get saggy.

Expert Tips

• Pick good avocados! They should be ripe but not mushy. Underripe avocados are chalky. On the flip side, overripe avocados are stringy and watery. It should yield when you give it a gentle squeeze but it shouldn't be soft or cave in.
• Don't be shy when you toast it. The crispy contrast is what makes it so good!
• Add citrus! When you mash the avocado, add a squeeze of fresh lemon or lime. This prevents the mixture from tasting flat or bland.

Variations

Oh mama, do I have a ton of variations for you! I adore avocado toast so I'm always messing around with toppings. Here's a few good ones to try:

• Avocado egg salad - Mash half an avocado with a boiled egg and some dill, chopped sweet pickles, salt, and lemon juice. Spread on toast.
• Green goddess - Try greens, sliced avocado, pickled red onion, cherry tomatoes, and green goddess dressing.
• Sumac & chickpea - Mash avocado with lemon juice and salt. Spread it on toast, then top with feta, chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, pine nuts, black pepper, and sumac.

Breakfast Recipes

• Blueberry Toast
• Omelette with Avocado and Veggies
• White Cheddar and Zucchini Egg Muffins