Tomato Avocado Toast is a great option if you are running out of things to make for breakfast or lunch. Made with vine ripe tomatoes, ripe avocado and your favorite sourdough bread make it the perfect meal or snack.

Avocado Toast with Tomato can be made with mashed avocado or sliced avocado. Top your avocados with tomatoes drizzled in extra virgin olive oil with a sprinkle of salt, black pepper and seasoning on toasted bread. Some also add red pepper flakes to their avocado toast.

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How do you store Avocados?

Is the brown part of an avocado bad?
What is the easiest way to cut avocados and remove the pit from avocados?
Ingredients Needed to make Avocado Toast with Tomato

Instructions on How to Make Tomato Avocado Toast
Top Tips
Substitutions and Variations

Equipment
Storage
Food Safety

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You can add tuna protein to tomato avocado toast or substitute other protein. Keep reading or skip to the variations section to find out more.

This avocado toast with tomato can be made at any time of the year. Whether you harvest the tomatoes from your garden or your local grocer, the tomatoes definitely give this toast the "wow" factor.

If you struggle with breakfast, my egg casserole or chia seed pudding are great protein filled options to start your day.

Sometimes trying to figure out what to eat on a plant based diet is difficult too. Try a grain bowl or a mushroom risotto.

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How do you store Avocados?

You may have seen the TikTok craze where people store their avocados in a container filled with water. While this does keep avocados from getting brown, it is not safe and may cause harmful pathogens that could be living on the avocado to multiply in water. Moral of the story? Don't believe everything you hear, do your research.

The best way to store avocados is to place them in the fridge when they are ripe. If you have cut avocado you can brush it with lemon juice or olive oil to slow down the browning process and wrap it in plastic wrap. If you don't mind the brown color on avocados, simply store it wrapped.

Is the brown part of an avocado bad?

If you just recently cut an avocado and placed the cut pieces in the fridge, it's likely they will turn brown. Avocados turn brown as part of a chemical reaction to reaching oxygen. The brown part of an avocado doesn't mean that it's gone bad.

What is the easiest way to cut avocados and remove the pit from avocados?

The easiest way to cut avocados is the cut it lengthwise around the pit and all around the avocado. Twist the avocado to open it, then take a knife and slap it against the pit to wedge the knife into the bone. No lift the knife and the bone will come out with it.

Once you have removed the pit, you can scoop the avocado meat out and eat it or you can cut it again in half lengthwise. Then slice it.

Ingredients Needed to make Avocado Toast with Tomato

For this avocado toast recipe you will need the following ingredients:

Avocado
Sour Dough Bread

Vine Ripened Tomato
Dried Oregano
Salt

Ground Pepper
Olive Oil
Arugula or Leafy Greens

Vinegar

See recipe card for quantities.

Instructions on How to Make Tomato Avocado Toast

Avocado toast is so easy to make. Start by mashing up or slicing your avocado.

Slice your tomatoes vertically while you toast your bread in the toaster.

Lay the avocado slices over one slice of sourdough bread and then lay the tomato on top.

Spray olive oil on top of the tomato and season. Lightly dress your leafy greens and arrange them on top of your tomato.

Top with other slice of bread. Cut in half and enjoy. Serve and eat immediately.

Top Tips

Let the freshly toasted bread stand in the toaster and slightly cool to a crisp. You won't burn your fingers.

When seasoning the tomatoes with salt, let stand for a minute or two while the salt draws out extra water and flavor molecules. The result is a flavorful avocado toast bite.

For tomatoes, vine ripened tomatoes are the best choice rather than a tomato that is not ripe or was picked prematurely and ripened during transportation.

If you are not sure, leave your tomatoes out by a window for a day or two before storing them in the fridge.

Substitutions and Variations

Most often I use sour dough bread for my avocado toast because that's what I have sitting in the fridge. But you can use any type of bread that is sitting in the fridge. Here are some options:

Bread - you can use sourdough, pumpernickel, fortified bread, keto bread or any other favorite bread.
Additional Ingredients - add onion, garlic, or diced peppers to your avocado mixture.
Avocado - substitute hummus for the avocado

Protein - add chicken or mash up tuna with avocado or even a fried egg.
Spicy - add red pepper flakes to add a little heat
Topping - add a drizzle of reduced balsamic vinegar or any other type of glaze for some added flavor

Kid friendly - add a side of potato chips (ketchup chips!)
Gluten Free - use sweet potato as the toast and make it gluten free.

Add in your favorite ingredient even if it isn't listed above.

Like any other recipe, you can customize this toast to add a personal touch.

Reflection: Cooking is like science, you need to experiment with different combinations to come up with the perfect result (for you). But, don't worry if it's not perfect. Pat yourself on the back for trying, you deserve it! Just try and figure out what you did wrong and do it different next time.

Equipment

For this toast I used my 4 slice Cuisinart Artisan Toaster. I absolutely love that the toaster can toast 4 slices of bread at one time and comes with options for toasting bagels, frozen bread, reheat option and a cancel button.

Good knives are a must for slicing your tomatoes. Always remember to slice your tomatoes vertically. If you slice them horizontally, all the tomato pulp will fall out of the tomato and make a big mess.

A good cutting board is also a must for the kitchen. Stay away from wooden cutting boards though as they are harder to sanitize. Plastic cutting boards will not be as smooth as wooden cutting boards but are a lot easier to sanitize and most can be placed in the dishwasher for easy sanitization.

Storage

This avocado toast is best served and eaten immediately. Making this toast ahead of time is not recommended.

So it is no surprise that leftover toast doesn't store well. This avocado toast is no exception.

Try to only make as many servings as you can consume in one sitting. The longer the toast sits, the soggier it will become due to the moisture in the tomatoes.

If you choose not to top with tomatoes, the toast will get hard and stale which also doesn't make for good storage outcomes.

Needless to say, this toast doesn't stand up well to freezing.

Food Safety

Note that the storage guidelines provided on this page and site are estimates from personal experiences. We are all adults and as an adult you are responsible to ensure that the food you eat is safe to eat. Since, I'm not a food safety expert, you are responsible to review your local guidelines on food storage prior to storing any food left-overs.

Remember to:

Not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
Wash hands after touching raw meat

Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
Never leave cooking food unattended
Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds

Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove

For Canadian Guidelines check Government of Canada's Food and Safety Guidelines, see more guidelines at USDA.gov.

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