Dinner · 10 min · Amounts not specified
Avocado eggs
Toast hard, because everything going on top of it is soft. A fried egg with crisp white edges turns it from a snack into a breakfast.
The sheet · 1 plate · 10 min
easyWhy tonight. Toast hard, because everything going on top of it is soft. A fried egg with crisp white edges turns it from a snack into a breakfast.
What it needs
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- avocado
- eggs
- bread
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.
Method
- Toast first and toast hard. Everything going on top of it is soft, and soft on soft is not a breakfast.
- Avocado mashed with salt and lemon in a bowl before it touches the bread.
- Eggs however you like them, but fried in a little too much butter with the whites crisped at the edge is the best version of this.
- Chili flakes and flaky salt at the end. Break the yolk on the plate, not in the pan.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 1 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishThe foundations — how pan heat and timing decide whether a scramble is custard or rubber.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughNO KNEAD Tartine Sourdough BreadBrian LagerstromA Tartine-style loaf from mixing to bake, with the timings a home oven actually needs.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- avocado
- Fat with no cooking required — it does what butter or cream would do in a dish that has neither.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- bread
- Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
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