🥑 Smashed Avocado Toast

Avocado Toast for kids: the whole recipe

Let's smash a whole avocado and pile it on hot crunchy toast! This easy recipe is for ages 6 to 11 (grades 1st–5th), takes about 10 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along, and every hot or sharp step is marked for a grown-up.

Ingredients

• 2 slices of bread (or gluten-free bread)
• 1 avocado
• 2 teaspoons lemon
• a pinch salt

Tools

A toaster (grown-up), A sharp knife (grown-up), A cutting board, A mixing bowl, A big spoon, Measuring spoons, A fork, A butter knife, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Grown-up step: A grown-up toasts 2 slices of bread until golden.
3. Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts the avocado and the lemon in half and takes out the big pit.
4. Scoop the soft green avocado into a bowl with a spoon.
5. Squeeze in 2 teaspoons of lemon juice and add a pinch of salt.
6. Mash it all with a fork, smooth with a few lumps.
7. Spread the green mash on your toast with a butter knife.
8. Put your toast on a plate and take a big crunchy bite!

Safety notes

• Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
• Hot! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.

Kitchen science

Cut avocado turns brown when air touches it; lemon juice's acid slows that down and keeps it green.

Make it your own

• Sprinkle on a little grated cheese or some chopped tomato.
• Make a smiley face on top with cucumber slices.
• Try a tiny shake of chilli flakes if you like it spicy.

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