Simple, delicious heart-healthy avocado toast that the whole family will love. It does not get much easier than this!
Heart-Healthy Avocado Toast
- Yield: 2
- Prep Time: 15 min
Ingredients
- 2 slices of your favorite seedy whole grain bread, lightly toasted
- 1 small avocado, cut in half, pit removed
- 1 beefsteak tomato, sliced
- 2 Persian cucumbers, skin on, ends trimmed, long thin ribbons made by a vegetable peeler
- ¼ red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Extra Virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- salt and pepper to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
- Place the toasted bread on a cutting board. Using a butter knife, scoop out some avocado flesh and spread evenly on each toast, covering the whole area. Drizzle ½ teaspoon lemon juice on each toast.
- Place 1-2 two tomato slices on top of avocado.
- Place sliced onion on top of the tomato.
- Gently weave the cucumber ribbons on top making a lattice pattern.
- Drizzle lightly with olive oil. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
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