It’s always hard to go back to work after a long weekend, made even harder when you take an extra day off and turn it into a 4 day weekend. And even harder when you’ve been having this for breakfast for the last few days and now need to downgrade back to plain old hard boiled eggs at your work desk.
To be fair I suppose I could recreate this on a week day but frankly there’s nothing more important than sleep at 7am. I would seriously do my make up the night before if I knew I could sleep peacefully and wake up with eye liner and mascara in place. Since that’s not the case, to maximize sleep I make my breakfast and lunch the night before and apply my make up the morning of.
And so I wait for the upcoming Saturday when I can have this for breakfast again….
Overall this is easy to make and put together and the combination of flavors is great – toasted bread, smooth avocado, slighty gooey egg, garlicy pesto and fresh alfalfa -hmmm…. delicious.
- 1 english muffin, sliced in half and toasted
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons
- basil pesto
- ¼-1/2 avocado, sliced
- lemon juice
- salt, pepper,
- ½ ounce alfalfa sprouts
- cooking spray
- Heat pan over medium-high heat. When hot add cooking spray and crack eggs into the pan. Cook until almost set, flip eggs over, pushing down on them slightly with a spatula, cook 1-2 minutes and remove from heat (cook longer if you don’t want the yolk runny at all) .
- Spread 1 tablespoon pesto on each english muffin half. Add alfalfa sprouts, egg, avocado slices, squeeze of lemon juice, salt and pepper.
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Looks great! I would get up extra early to have this for breakfast
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It’s always tempting to get up early to start the day off with something like this, but when the alarm clock goes off I always find myself pleading with it for a few extra minutes of sleep!
This looks like my kind of breakfast! Avocado and eggs are the perfect combination and I love pesto.
So good together!
Yum Yum, looks delicious! And your lighting is beautiful, seems like the sun in shining in DC (in London it’s been grey and raining for the last couple of months!).
Thanks for the flattering compliments! It’s been pretty sunny and stays light here until 8ish so it gives me enough time to rush home from work, cook and take photos with some natural light! Too bad it’s been rainy over there – hope the weather clears up soon!
Wonderful breakfast! Definitely making it this week! And such a beautiful photo! Thanks for sharing
Thanks! This really is one of my favorite breakfast meals! And if you’re trying to watch the carbs just omit the bread!
This looks like a great meal for any time of the day, Lovely pictures as well, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks! It is also gluten free if you buy use gluten free english muffins!
I was searching for avocado online and I found this post. This looks amazing! I’m also really hungry right now though. I love that this is a nice twist on a classic breakfast idea. Thanks for the post.
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I found this on pinterest yesterday, made it today, and think Im in LOVE! I put pesto/avocado on almost everything I can, and this is just one more recipe to add to the mix. I’m also very excited to learn a new use for sprouts that I never thought of before – Outstanding! This will forever replace my eggs benedict
Yay so glad you enjoyed this dish!!! Thanks so much!
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