Avocado Toast

Avocado toast is the perfect heart-healthy breakfast or snack, and ours may have you swearing off jam and hazelnut spread forever
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Avocado toast is the perfect heart-healthy breakfast or snack, and ours — garnished with fresh cucumber, radish and watercress — may have you swearing off jam and hazelnut spread forever.  

Ingredients

Tomato salsa:

  • 1 tablespoon mint, fresh, stemmed, finely chopped
  • 1/4 lemon, zested and juiced
  • 1 tomato, finely diced
  • 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar

Avocado spread:

  • 1 avocado
  • 2 tablespoons lowfat yogurt
  • 1/4 lemon, juiced

Garnish:

  • 30 pieces toasted crostini or melba toast
  • Pinch of cayenne pepper
  • 1/4 cucumber, ribboned with a veg peeler
  • 1 radish, thinly sliced
  • 1/2 cup watercress (optional)

Directions

  1. In a small bowl, mix together mint, juice and zest from 1/4 lemon, tomato and white wine vinegar. Set aside.
  2. Halve the avocado, remove the stone and scoop the flesh into a bowl. Add the yogurt and the remaining lemon juice. Mash everything with a fork.
  3. Spread avocado mixture evenly between the toasts (about 1 teaspoon each). Sprinkle with a little cayenne pepper. Top with 1 cucumber ribbon and 1 radish slice. Spoon tomato salsa on top.

Nutrition Information

Serving size: 3 toasts

Amount Per Serving

  • Calories: 71
  • Fat: 2g
    • Saturated Fat: 0g
  • Protein: 2g
  • Carbohydrate: 11g
    • Dietary fiber: 1g
  • Sodium: 82mg
  • Cholesterol: 0mg
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