Avocado Toast with Poached Egg

Avocado Toast with Poached Egg

Michael

A healthy and delicious breakfast featuring creamy avocado on toasted sourdough, topped with a perfectly poached egg. This nutrient-rich meal is packed with healthy fats, protein, and fiber to start your day right.

Nutrition

10 minutes
2 servings servings
320 calories
Fat 18.50g
Carbs 28.00g
Protein 14.00g

Ingredients

4 slicessourdough bread
2 largeavocado
4 largeeggs
2 teaspoonslemon juice
1 teaspoonsalt
1 teaspoonblack pepper
1 pinchred pepper flakes (optional)

Equipment

Toaster
Large pot
Mixing bowl
Slotted spoon

16:8 Diet

This balanced breakfast is perfect for breaking your 16-hour fast, providing sustained energy from healthy fats, protein, and complex carbs to keep you satisfied throughout your 8-hour eating window.

80/20 Diet

This recipe exemplifies the 80/20 principle with nutrient-dense whole foods—fresh avocados, eggs, and quality sourdough—comprising well over 80% of the ingredients, with simple seasonings making up the remainder.

Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Avocados provide anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants, while eggs offer quality protein and nutrients. The lemon juice adds vitamin C and additional anti-inflammatory properties to support overall health.

Clean Eating

This recipe uses whole, minimally processed ingredients including fresh avocados, eggs, and quality sourdough bread with simple seasonings, avoiding refined sugars, artificial additives, and processed components.

Flexible Dieting

This nutrient-dense breakfast fits flexible dieting principles with whole food ingredients that provide balanced macros from eggs, avocado, and sourdough, allowing for easy tracking and portion adjustments.

Flexitarian Diet

This predominantly plant-based meal features avocado as the star ingredient with eggs as a supporting protein source, perfectly embodying flexitarian principles of emphasizing plants while including modest amounts of animal products.

Heart-Healthy Diet

This heart-healthy recipe features avocados rich in monounsaturated fats that help lower bad cholesterol, eggs for lean protein, and whole grain sourdough for fiber, all prepared without added saturated fats or excessive sodium.

High-Protein Diet

With four eggs providing approximately 24-28g of high-quality protein across four servings, this recipe can be modified to increase protein content by adding extra eggs or egg whites to meet high-protein diet requirements.

IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros)

This balanced meal provides trackable macros with approximately 15-20g protein from eggs, 15-20g healthy fats from avocado, and 25-30g carbs from sourdough, making it easy to fit into personalized macro targets.

Intermittent Fasting

This nutrient-dense breakfast is ideal for breaking a fast, providing sustained energy from healthy fats in avocado, quality protein from eggs, and complex carbohydrates from sourdough to keep you satisfied throughout your eating window.

Intuitive Eating

This satisfying breakfast honors both nutrition and pleasure, combining creamy avocado, perfectly poached eggs, and toasted sourdough for a balanced meal that provides nourishment without restriction or food rules.

Macro Diet

With clear portions and whole food ingredients, this recipe offers easily trackable macros: protein from eggs, healthy fats from avocado, and carbohydrates from sourdough bread for balanced flexible dieting.

Mediterranean Diet

This recipe aligns with Mediterranean principles by featuring healthy fats from avocado, eggs for moderate protein, and whole grain sourdough bread. To make it more authentically Mediterranean, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and add fresh herbs.

Mindful Eating

This recipe encourages mindful eating with varied textures from creamy avocado, crispy toast, and silky poached egg, along with vibrant colors and fresh flavors that engage multiple senses for a conscious eating experience.

Vegetarian Diet

This vegetarian-friendly recipe provides complete nutrition with protein from eggs, healthy fats from avocado, and whole grains from sourdough bread, making it a satisfying meat-free breakfast option.

Weight Watchers

This recipe emphasizes whole foods with eggs as lean protein and avocado providing healthy fats, though portion control on the avocado and bread would help manage points while maintaining satisfaction and nutritional value.

Instructions

1
3 min

Toast the sourdough bread slices until golden brown.

2
4 min

While bread toasts, bring a pot of water to a gentle simmer. Add a splash of vinegar.

3

Mash the avocados with lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a bowl.

2 min
4

Crack each egg into a small cup. Create a gentle whirlpool in the water and slide eggs in one at a time.

1 min
5
4 min

Poach eggs for 3-4 minutes until whites are set but yolks are still runny.

6

Spread mashed avocado generously on toasted bread.

1 min
7

Top each toast with a poached egg, season with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes if desired.

1 min

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