Smashed avocado and poached eggs on muffins is the perfect healthy breakfast or brunch recipe. Not only that it's super quick and made completely from scratch!
Folks, I think you're going to love this smashed avocado and poached eggs on muffins recipe!
This delicious meal is packed with protein, healthy fats from the avocado and accompanied with juicy little roasted cherry tomatoes that burst in your mouth. Not only that this will definitely fill you up for longer too!
I've seen a few variations of this recipe around the internet but what makes this one totally different is that it's made with muffins, AND those are made from scratch!
There's nothing quite like or as satisfying as making a meal (but still a quick healthy one!) from scratch is there?
So, for the muffins we're going to be using my easy quick English muffins recipe.
If you don't have time to make those, you can of course buy some good quality shop bought muffins.
I just can't guarantee that they'll be as healthy or as tasty though!
I'm so looking forward to making this smashed avocado recipe at the weekend again.
It's kind of becoming a bit of a staple at the moment for my other half and I.
It fits rather nicely into our post Saturday gym routine as an excellent brunch.
I make the muffins before we both go so it's just 30 minutes to get everything on the table when we get back!
Anyway, I've broken the recipe down into an easy step by step guide for you below.
How To Make Smashed Avocado And Poached Eggs On Muffins
- Follow the step by step guide in the quick English muffins recipe to make those first. The recipe makes 6 muffins. The muffins don’t need any proving, making them ideal to put together quickly in just over 30 minutes and you can freeze the ones you don't need for next time.
- The cherry tomatoes just need long enough in the oven for their skins to shrivel and them to be just about ready to burst. Keep them warm until ready to be served though.
- To poach the eggs boil the kettle and pour the water into a small pan. You just want the water about to start simmering, so the heat will be really low under the pan. Crack the eggs into 4 cups first before you put them in the water as that means you won't break the yolk when the egg enters the water.
- When preparing the avocados, cut them in half, remove the stone and scoop out the flesh. Mash with a fork adding the lime juice.
- Rub the muffins cut surface with a little oil which helps to crisp them when grilling and when crisp top with the avocado mash and poached egg.
- Serve on plates with the roasted cherry tomatoes and serve immediately to keep everything warm.
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Smashed Avocado And Poached Eggs On Muffins Recipe
This smashed avocado and poached eggs recipe is quick and easy to make.
It may well become one of your favourite things to eat for breakfast as it is for us!
I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Smashed Avocado And Poached Eggs On Muffins Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 Muffins halved
- 220 g cherry tomatoes
- 2 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 2 avocados ripened
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 eggs
- Freshly ground salt and pepper
Instructions
- Make Muffins
- Preheat oven to 180C fan.
- Place tomatoes in a small roasting tin and roast in the oven for about 15 minutes so they are just beginning to split.
- Boil a kettle and fill a large pan with the boiled water, bring back to the boil and add the vinegar.
- Cut the avocados in half and scoop out the insides.
- Place avocado in a bowl with the lime juice and mash together, but leave slightly chunky.
- Turn on your grill, drizzle the olive oil over the four slices of muffin and toast until lightly browned under the grill.
- Whilst keeping an eye on your toasting muffins poach the eggs in the pan of boiling water for about 3 minutes, (you want the yolks to still be slightly runny). Remove with a slotted spoon onto a plate.
- Spread the toasted muffin halves with the smashed avocado, place the poached eggs on top and divide the cherry tomatoes between the two plates.
- Season and serve.
Shashi at Savory Spin
Smashed avocado and poached eggs make up one of my daughter's favorite breakfasts ever! She usually just uses bread - but, am betting those homemade English muffins are so much better! Here's to safe travels back - and looking forward to that Cheesecake recipe! Happy Weekend to you and Lady Lynne, Neil!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Shashi. 🙂
I think the thick chunk of each piece of muffin that goes with each mouthful of this delicous breakfast / brunch recipe just seems to go so well.
Yep, I'm on the "home straight" now and just working through my last day in Edinburgh. Looking foward to the weekend. Hope you have a good one too! 😀
David @ Spiced
Now this sounds like my kind of breakfast! I go back and forth between sweet and savory breakfasts, but this one fits the bill perfectly for a savory breakfast kinda day. Plus, I love English muffins! I sometimes make a huge batch and store 'em in the freezer, but lately we've just been buying them at the store. A certain little toddler in the house has made shortcuts like that a necessity lately. Haha! (Plus, they make seasonal flavors for English muffins here in the States. Like pumpkin spice muffins. Yum!) That poached egg looks perfect, by the way! Enjoy the rest of your days in Edinburgh...I'm sure you can't wait to get back home! 🙂
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I like to have a batch of home-made English muffins stored in the freezer too David, as you never know when they're going to come in handy do you? But I can totally understand that having the wee one about means you don't always get the chance to make them yourself. Pumpkins spice muffins sound intriguing by the way. There's so many flavours I'd love to try there! 😀
Susie @ Suzlyfe
No lie this is my mom's favorite thing to order for brunch at restaurants (recently). If you want to get REALLY fancy, add crab 😀
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Oooh adding crab sounds amazing. A kind of salty combination to compliment the savoury. I like it! 🙂
Ben | Havocinthekitchen
Although I like to have a sweet kind of breakfast/brunch once in a while, still I'm a savory kind guy. This english muffin with avocado and egg is exactly the meal I could easily eat almost every day (But I won't). Indeed, a few years back I was having a kick on eating English muffins with avocado, egg, and maple bacon (Yes, I know, unhealthy. My excuse is that I was using chicken/turkey bacon). But English muffins from scratch? Neil, we need to collaborate! I mean, you'll send me some homemade muffins, and I'll do the remaining part including the best - eating:) Have a nice weekend!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Ben. You will need to send me some of your maple bacon, I can't recall having ever tasted that, and I don't think I can get that here in the UK either (although I will have to investigate!) 🙂
GiGi Eats
Avocado + ANYTHING = HAVENNNNNN! I have YET to mix it with egg yolk but HOT DAMN I know that will be a GOOD GOOD GOOD time!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I'm only a recent convert to the Avocado, but they sure are delicious, healthy and versatile too!
I mean I've even made healthier chocolate muffins from Avocado. I wonder what I'll do next with them...... 😉
Ashika | Gardening Foodie
OH WOW... looks great. I looove avos and this recipe looks wonderful Neil. I also love that you make your own english muffins, I have been looking for a good recipe, so thanks for sharing.
Looking forward to the cheesecake recipe next week too!!!
Have a great week!!!?
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Ashika. I'm lucky that muffins were a big thing in our family when I was younger so we've always made our own. They're remarkably simple to make too!
Just putting the final finishing touches to the cheesecake recipe for tomorrow. 😀