Avocado Toast
Ingredients
- 1 slice toasted sourdough
- 1/2 avocado
- Kale pesto (recipe below)
- Thinly sliced cucumber OR radish
- Fresh herbs like basil, mind, dill, chives or cilantro
- Everything spice
Instructions
- Roughly smash avocado, then pile onto toast
- Top with cucumber or radish slices, then chopped fresh herbs and everything spice
- Add a drizzle of olive oil if desired
Kale Pesto
Ingredients
- 3 cups of kale, torn and ribs discarded
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- Kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast (or sub 2 tablespoons parmesan if not making vegan)
- 1/4 cup toasted walnuts
- Juice of 1 lemon or lime
- Squeeze of honey
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- In a large pot of boiling salted water, blanch the kale and garlic cloves for 3 minutes
- Remove to ice water bath and let cool
- Use your hands to squeeze some of the water from the kale, then add kale and garlic to blender, along with nutritional yeast, walnuts, lemon juice, honey, and olive oil
- Pulse until smooth, adding some of the kale water as needed to thin
- Add kosher salt to taste