Bacon and Egg Breakfast Toast with Avocado
Crisp bacon, a set fried egg and buttery avocado piled on toasted bread with burst cherry tomatoes. A fast, high-protein breakfast that comes together in one pan.
- Total
- 17 min
- Prep 5 · Cook 12
- Serves
- 1
- Difficulty
- Easy
You'll practice: Rendering fat · Pan-frying
- Savory
- Quick
- Stovetop
- Oven
Instructions
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Toast the 2 slices of bread until golden and crisp, either in a toaster or under a hot oven grill for 2 to 3 minutes per side. Set them on a plate.
~6 min
Toasting drives off moisture and creates a crisp surface that won't turn soggy under the wet toppings.
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Lay the 2 slices of bacon in a cold frying pan and set it over medium heat. Cook until the fat renders and the bacon is browned and crisp, about 4 minutes per side. Lift the bacon onto the toast, leaving the fat in the pan.
~8 min
Starting bacon in a cold pan slowly renders the fat, so the slices cook flat and evenly crisp instead of curling.
Start the bacon in a cold pan: the fat renders slowly and the slices end up flat and evenly crisp instead of curling.
Rendering fat Start bacon in a cold pan over medium heat so the fat renders gradually; if it sizzles hard immediately, the pan is too hot and the bacon will curl and burn.
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While step 2 cooks
While the bacon cooks, halve the 6 cherry tomatoes. Add them cut side down to the hot bacon fat and cook until they soften and char at the edges, about 3 minutes. Spoon them over the toast.
~3 min
Cooking tomatoes cut-side down in hot fat concentrates their sugars and chars the surface for deeper flavor.
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Add the 1 tsp olive oil to the pan. Crack in the 2 eggs, season with half the salt and half the black pepper, and fry until the whites are fully set and the yolks are still soft, about 3 minutes.
~3 min
Adding oil to the bacon fat raises the smoke point and helps the eggs fry without sticking.
Pan-frying Fry eggs in a thin layer of hot fat; tilt the pan and spoon fat over the whites to set them without flipping, and pull them off while the yolks still wobble.
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While step 4 cooks
While the eggs fry, scoop the flesh of the half avocado into a small bowl. Mash it with a fork and stir in the remaining salt and black pepper.
~2 min
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Spread the mashed avocado over the toast, top with the bacon, the blistered cherry tomatoes and the fried eggs. Eat straight away while the yolk is runny.
~1 min