Avocado Toast with Kale Pesto and Crunchy Veggies

Serves 1

An elevated avocado toast recipe with lots of veggies and herbs.

By Camille Styles

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

  1. Roughly smash avocado, then pile onto toast
  2. Top with cucumber or radish slices, then chopped fresh herbs and everything spice
  3. 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

  1. In a large pot of boiling salted water, blanch the kale and garlic cloves for 3 minutes
  2. Remove to ice water bath and let cool
  3. 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
  4. Pulse until smooth, adding some of the kale water as needed to thin
  5. Add kosher salt to taste