Sunday 10 May 2015

Healthy toast toppers 1


I've decided to do a series of healthy toast toppers. It's so easy just to reach for the butter, marmite or jam but there are so many amazing foods you can have on top of toast which will transform a slice of toast and make it more into a meal. There are loads of fruit/veggies that go great on top of toast, so I am going to do a few posts with a few ideas in each for some healthy breakfast or lunch ideas!
All recipes below serve 1.

 Avocado and salmon

Ingredients
1 ripe avocado
2 slices of smoked salmon
1 lemon
Salt
Pepper
Fresh coriander
Your favourite bread

Using the back of a fork, mash your avocado up. Squeeze in the juice of 1/2 to 1 lemon depending on preference, add in some salt (ideally pink himalyan salt or a good quality rock salt) and pepper. Finely chop your fresh coriander (or an alternative herb if you wish) and add this in too. Re-mash the avocado to make sure all the new additions are combined.


Spread your avocado mix over your toast and finish with a 1-2 slices of smoked salmon.




Almond butter and banana

Ingredients
1 banana
Almond butter (or any nut butter)
Optional: Cinnamon
Your favourite bread

This one is pretty self explanatory. Chop your banana into discs. Spread your nut butter over your bread and top with your banana! For a little extra flavour, sprinkle with cinnamon.





Tomatoes, garlic and chilli

Ingredients
Olive oil
Approx 15 plum tomatoes
1-2 red chillies
1-2 cloves of garlic
Fresh basil
Your favourite bread

I like to buy mixed colour tomatoes for this one but it's completely not necessary. Use as much or little of both garlic and chilli as you wish, or of course they can be omitted.



Chop up your tomatoes into different sizes, some havles and some quarters. Finely chop your garlic, chilli and basil.


Add a tablespoon of olive oil into your saucepan on a medium heat and add your tomatoes. After 5 minutes, your tomatoes should start going squishy. Add in the garlic, chilli and basil and cook for a further 2-5 minutes.




Look out for the next healthy toast toppers post (that's a bit of a mouthful to say!) and meanwhile, I hope you enjoy experimenting with what you put on top of your morning slice of toast!