("Dio e Zingaro" by La Municipale Balcanica)
- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone,
and in today's video I'm gonna show you how to make
a baked egg avocado toast.
So if you love avocado toast, if you love eggs,
this is a really easy, sheet pan recipe
that you can just make a bunch of it at once.
Let's get to it.
So this starts out with, well, a sheet pan.
So you're gonna need a quarter size sheet pan,
and you're gonna need four slices,
thick-cut slices, of French bread.
So we're gonna take those slices of French bread,
and we're just gonna take a biscuit cutter
and cut a hole in each one.
Just go ahead and do that for every slice.
The important part is to not tear the bread
while you're doing this.
So we need to prepare the sheet pan,
so we're gonna spray it with some cooking spray,
because we're gonna have these slices of French bread
that have holes in them,
which are gonna host the avocado and the egg.
And so there's a good chance the egg's gonna spill through
and you don't want it to stick to the pan.
So just go ahead and spray that really quick.
(can spraying)
Get all the nooks and crannies,
'cause we don't want the eggs to stick.
Now, just go ahead and set those bread slices,
just evenly spaced on the pan.
Get it a little closer to myself.
So before I go ahead and add the avocado to the French bread
I'm actually gonna butter around the edges of it.
'Cause it's just an opportunity,
it's gonna be in the oven, it's gonna be baking,
that buttered bread is gonna just
be nice and golden brown and super delicious.
So you wanna make sure
that you just take some room temperature butter
and just work it around the edges of each slice of bread,
just around the hole part.
It's kind of like your rim of the bread.
Just spread the butter out evenly.
Doesn't have to be perfect,
it just adds a little bit of flavor.
It is optional, by the way.
If you don't have butter, whatever,
but it will make it a lot, lot better.
Okay, so we cut our holes into the French bread,
so now we're just gonna go ahead and cut open our avocado.
You just want to go ahead and slice it lengthwise.
And just kind of move the knife
around the perimeter of the avocado.
Give it a twist.
And just take your knife
and just go ahead and whack the seed,
and then twist it,
and pop it right out.
I've sliced the avocados lengthwise, and I've pitted them,
now I need to go ahead and remove the skin from the avocado.
So this part is really important.
So you want to use avocados in this recipe
that are firm and ripe,
but you don't want them to be too ripe,
because if they're too soft,
then when you're removing the peel from the avocado,
you're not gonna get a whole,
I should say, you're not that complete half intact.
It's gonna get too mushy
and it's just gonna kind of fall apart.
And if it's not ripe, then the peel won't come off easily.
So you just want to go ahead and remove that peel.
And then you're gonna place the avocado half
inside the hole of the bread.
Now here's the thing.
Depending on the size of the avocados,
and depending on the size of the bread,
and the hole that you cut into it,
it might not all work out nice and evenly.
You might have to make a few adjustments.
One thing that you can do is you can just take a knife
and cut the avocado down the middle, lengthwise.
Just gently cut it.
And then take your thumbs
and just kind of break open the avocado,
so that'll kind of push it against the sides,
making it a bigger cavity where that pit was,
'cause that's where you're gonna want to put the egg.
So just go ahead and do that for every slice of bread,
just go ahead and work the avocado in there.
And if you need to slice it, just go ahead and do that.
Super easy.
So the French bread's prepped, it's buttered.
The avocado is put into that hole.
Now we're just gonna go ahead and take our eggs
and fill each one.
Go ahead and crack that open.
Do the next one.
Everything is ready.
So now we're just gonna carefully transfer our baking sheet
into the oven, which has been set at 425 degrees.
And we're gonna bake it for about 10 minutes.
Something to note is that when you're baking eggs,
the whites will actually continue to set
even after you take the tray out of the oven.
So just something to think about
when you're trying to plan the timing.
So if you think that you want them to be
a little bit more set,
they probably are gonna set a little bit
after you remove it from the oven.
I personally do it under a little bit,
so that way they can set
after I remove the tray from the oven.
So let's go ahead and put this in there.
Like I said, 425 degrees for 10 minutes.
(melodic sting)
Okay, so our baked egg avocado toast is all ready to go.
You have four delicious servings here.
I'm just gonna go ahead and top it off
with a little bit of salt,
some cracked pepper, (pepper grating)
and some crushed red pepper flakes.
And there you go, that's all it takes.
Easy, this is perfect for brunch.
Or if you're trying to feed quite a few people,
it's easily scalable.
This is four slices of bread,
but you could easily make it 16 slices of bread
if you wanted to.
Super, super simple recipe.
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