Inspired by Tasty, this week I asked my friends to submit their recipes for their avocado toast. Thank you to everyone who submitted a recipe! I ended up only selecting 3 recipes to try out and review because a lot of them were quite similar to each other. I feel like avocado toast is very personal to each individual because of their spice tolerance and flavour preferences. Prior to this taste test, I felt very proud of my recipe. Now, I have copied one of these recipes and am using it as my own. It’s just so good!
In this taste test, I judged each toast based on the following criteria:
Taste
Balance of Ingredients
How hard it is to make
I asked each contestant to describe what their avocado toast tasted like in three words or under, as well as explain how to make it with the quantities and ingredients.
Recipe #1 Made by Rachel
Description of this avocado toast: Creamy, tasty, crunchy
Ingredients:
1 mashed avocado
Salt and pepper to taste
¼ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp cumin
Tomato
Paprika
Steps:
Mash all the ingredients together
Place them on top of two pieces of toast
Add sliced tomato, more salt and pepper and extra paprika on top
My Review:
This recipe was definitely tasty. It lived up to its description.
Taste: ⅘
Balance of Ingredients: 3.7/5
Complexity: Medium
Comments: Cumin is a wonderful spice to add to this recipe but I felt that it was a bit overpowering. That is honestly to preference and the amount of cumin you add can be to taste as well. In general, I thoroughly enjoyed the uniqueness of this recipe!
Recipe #2: Made by Miranda
Description of the avocado toast: Simple, tasty, messy
Ingredients:
1 or 2 prices of Toast (any white or whole grain bread)
1 or half of an Avocado
Garlic powder
Chilli powder
Pepper
Steps:
Toast the bread in toaster
Smush avocado
Add the seasonings to smushed avocado
Put the avocado on the toast
My Review:
Taste: 3.8/5
Balance of Ingredients: 3.5/5
Complexity: Easy
Comments: I personally liked the touch of chilli powder in the recipe. My family uses chilli powder in almost every recipe and I love the flavour it brings to it. In the recipe though, there was no mention of salt and for that reason, I felt like there could have been more flavour with it. I thought that this was an easy to make recipe and enjoyed eating it!
Recipe #3: Made by Iris
Description of the avocado toast: Flavourful, filling, simple
Ingredients:
½ Avocado
⅛ - ¼ tsp of:
Garlic powder
Paprika
Cayenne pepper
Chilli flakes
Lemon or lime juice
Salt and pepper to taste
One egg
Butter
Steps:
Mash avocado in bowl and season
Crack an egg on to a buttered pan and cook until medium (slightly undercooked on the inside)
Cover with a lid to make it cook more evenly
Put a little but of salt and pepper on the egg
Put avocado spread on toast and top with the egg
My Review:
Taste: 5/5
Balance of Ingredients: 4.5/5
Complexity: Hard
Comments: I absolutely loved this recipe. In fact, I made it for both my brother and I for breakfast and he requested that I make it again on the same day because he was craving it so much. This is the most similar to the recipe that I previously used but I enjoy this one better. The lime juice adds so much flavour and the egg, although not necessary, balances out the flavour so well and makes for a nice addition.
I hope you enjoyed the first edition of Food Wars, an article series that I want to continue! Below are two google forms I have attached that I would love for you to fill out so you can: a) tell me which recipes you would like to see reviewed in the future and b) to submit your recipe for the iced coffee recipe edition!
Suggestions Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPe99Rh8jTu2OObnSqGMBf1XO_0hQOTqAq5E65Vv3LwaNjrw/viewform
Iced Coffee:
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