Avocado Toast with Marinated Tomatoes and a Soft Boiled Egg

Cook's Notes: Start your day healthy with avocado toast, marinated tomatoes, and an egg. Elevate your avocado toast game with this casual but super-gourmet open-faced sandwich! It features fresh sliced avocado, marinated and roasted cherry tomatoes with a drizzle of balsamic, and a soft-boiled egg.
Another option is to scramble the egg instead of making a soft boiled one.  

Avocado Toast with Marinated Tomatoes and a Soft-Boiled Egg

Ingredients: 

• Avocados
• Slices of sourdough bread
• Olive oil 
• Small lemon  
• Cherry tomatoes
• Balsamic vinegar
• Honey
• Optional Shirracha 
• Eggs 
• Sea salt nd pepper

Directions: 

• Dice avocados into slices and squeeze lemon juice over them. 
• Fill an 8-inch fry pan halfway with water and set it on the stove on low heat.  
• Set oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Slice bread and lightly brush both sides of the bread with olive oil.
• Toast for 3 minutes in the oven and then turn over to toast the other side.  
• Remove the bread from the oven and set it aside.
• Halve cherry tomatoes on a paper towel. Add tomatoes, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and hot honey to a bowl. Mix well. 
• Place the tomato mixture on a parchment-lined baking sheet and roast in the oven at 400 degrees. Smash the tomatoes when they are done. 
• While the tomato mixture is cooking, increase the heat to medium-low. When the water is almost boiling, crack the egg/eggs into the water and cover.

On a plate, place in the following order:

bread slice, avocado slices, roasted tomato mixture, and an egg 

WARNING: Use a metal spatula or a slotted spoon to carefully remove the egg from the water and place it on top of the tomato mixture. LOL, I used a Teflon spatula, and the egg slid off onto the counter before it even got to a plate!! 

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