Quick and Easy Guacamole and Tomato on Farmhouse Toast

Homemade guacamole is spread on toast and topped with sliced tomato and chopped herbs

Lunch is a meal that we often have considerably less time to prepare than dinner. When we can find a recipe idea, therefore, that takes no more than ten minutes to prepare from start to finish, yet is both nutritious and delicious, it is surely worth giving it a try. This incredibly simple idea meets all of these requirements and these quantities will provide two people with a light but tasty lunch.

Ingredients

1 hass avocado
1 medium tomato
Juice of half a lemon
1 clove of garlic
1 tsp dried chilli flakes
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 thick slices of farmhouse (or similar) bread
Chopped coriander leaf/cilantro to garnish

The stone actually fell out of this perfectly ripened hass avocado

Directions

Guacamole in a literal sense means simply, "Avocado sauce." That is why the recipes for it can be and are so varied. If you have a particular guacamole recipe that you wish to substitute for this one, by all means do so. The overall dish will work just as well.

The first step is to peel and stone the avocado. If you are very lucky (as I was in this instance) and your avocado is at that perfect state of ripeness, the stone will simply fall out when you make the required cut around the circumference. Use a teaspoon to scoop out the flesh from both halves and add it to a small glass or stone bowl.

Avocado flesh is scooped in to a bowl for mashing

Add the lemon juice to the avocado only before you mash it to a smooth consistency with a fork. Afterwards, add the chilli flakes, the peeled and grated garlic cloves and seasoning of salt and pepper. Stir well and set aside.

Mashed avocado is seasoned

Cut the bread slices nice and thick, round about an inch. You can use any kind of bread but this farmhouse loaf works extremely well.

Slicing the bread thickly for toast

Toast the slices of bread until golden on both sides. There is no need to butter them as the guacamole will add all the moisture you need.

Bread is toasted until golden on both sides

Divide the guacamole between the two slices of toast and spread it out evenly with a knife.

Guacamole is spread thickly on the hot toast

Slice the tomato fairly thinly and lay on top of the guacamole. Season with a little more salt and pepper. Very roughly chop the coriander/cilantro and scatter as a final garnish before immediate service.

Tomato slices are laid on the guacamole