Smoky Avocado Toast
Prep 5 mins Grill 5 mins Eat 10 mins
Welcome your summer parties with this Smoky Avocado Toast we loved in our 2018 Barbecue Cooking Class. Smoke seems to make everything taste better. Think of grilled avocado halves, warm blistered cherry tomatoes and charred and caramelized slices of country bread. The best thing is this beautiful and delicious culinary artwork can be made in a flash!
I was introduced to the Smoky Avocado Toast by Laura Bashar in her Camp & Cabin Cookbook, which will inspire you to eat unique and delicious food around the campfire. Her experience cooking in the real outdoors with a campfire and camp stove is the real deal, but you can have fun in your own backyard with Laura’s recipes using your gas or barbecue grill with incredible results. She has a whole section of Morning Meals like French Toast with berries that you make in a foil pouch on top of the coals. Her favorite tools are a cast iron pan or Dutch oven along with lots of goodies cooked in foil.
Smoky Avocado Toast is the perfect addition to any outdoor party!
Smoky Avocado Toast is the perfect addition to any outdoor party. It’s festive, healthy and delicious plus you can make it totally last minute by grilling the components right in front of your guests. The beautiful baby heirloom tomatoes from Melissa’s Produce are like shiny jewels on the Smoky Avocado Toast.
Grilling the Smoky Avocado Toast for a crowd at our Barbecue Cooking Class.
Heat up the grill. Brush olive oil on avocado halves and skewers of cherry tomatoes, then place on the grill. Watch until you get grill marks. Rotate the tomatoes to get all sides. Place the country bread on the grill just until you get some grill marks. It will take only a minute or less per side, so watch carefully. 
Grill avocados, cherry tomatoes and country bread. Place the grilled items on a tray, slice some radishes and begin to assemble.
The Smoky Avocado Toast is ready to devour at our party.
Brush olive oil on the bread, scoop out the avocado with a spoon and slice. Place or spread it on the bread. Continue with the radish slices, the blistered tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Top with sprouts, micro greens or fresh herbs (I used snipped basil from the garden) and drizzle with olive oil and a splash of wine vinegar. Heck, add some garlic to the olive oil to ramp up the flavor, if you just can’t stand to leave it out!
I love to host parties by the pool!
Enjoy your summer parties like you never partied before!
Smoky Avocado Toast
This is a delicious method for making what’s becoming everyone’s favorite…Avocado Toast. My friend Laura Bashar featured this delicious and simple recipe in her Camp & Cabin Cookbook. I think it’s a perfect appetizer for an outdoor or backyard party during the summer. But it would be great any time of the day.
4 bamboo skewers
2 avocados
4 radishes, thinly sliced
32 small cherry tomatoes
3 Tablespoons olive oil (divided)
8 slices country French bread
2 Tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 pinch salt and pepper to taste
sprouts, micro greens or snipped herbs for garnish
1. Soak the bamboo skewers in water for 15 minutes to prevent them from burning. Thinly slice the radishes. Slice open the avocado and remove the pits. Prepare the grill for medium heat and thread the cherry tomatoes on the skewers.
2. Brush the avocado halves and the tomato skewers with a drizzle of olive oil.
3. Place the avocado halves face down on the grill until you get grill marks. Rotate the tomato skewers to get all sides. Place the country bread on the grill just until you get some grill marks. It will take only a minute or less per side, so watch carefully.
4. Assemble the Smoky Avocado Toasts. Brush olive oil on the bread, scoop out the avocado with a spoon and slice. Place or spread it on the bread. Continue with the radish slices, the blistered tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Top with sprouts, micro greens or fresh herbs (I used snipped basil from the garden) and drizzle with olive oil and a splash of wine vinegar.
Servings: 4 – 468 calories per serving
Smoky Avocado Toast
Ingredients
- 4 bamboo skewers
- 2 avocados
- 4 radishes thinly sliced
- 32 small cherry tomatoes
- 3 Tablespoons olive oil divided
- 8 slices country French bread
- 2 Tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 pinch salt and pepper to taste
- sprouts micro greens or snipped herbs for garnish
Instructions
- Soak the bamboo skewers in water for 15 minutes to prevent them from burning. Thinly slice the radishes. Slice open the avocado and remove the pits. Prepare the grill for medium heat and thread the cherry tomatoes on the skewers.
- Brush the avocado halves and the tomato skewers with a drizzle of olive oil.
- Place the avocado halves face down on the grill until you get grill marks. Rotate the tomato skewers to get all sides. Place the country bread on the grill just until you get some grill marks. It will take only a minute or less per side, so watch carefully.
- Assemble the Smoky Avocado Toasts. Brush olive oil on the bread, scoop out the avocado with a spoon and slice. Place or spread it on the bread. Continue with the radish slices, the blistered tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Top with sprouts, micro greens or fresh herbs (I used snipped basil from the garden) and drizzle with olive oil and a splash of wine vinegar.
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Y U M. Sounds like a nice change for tomorrow. 🙂
Mark, hope you had a nice Memorial Day weekend in your small Illinois town. Happy safe return to normalcy to you!!
Thank you Patricia. You have made many tummies happy at my house. XOXOXO
What a great idea! I have grilled each of the ingredients separately, but never thought of putting them all together. Yum!