Quick and healthy, the spicy avocado crostini will have you craving more!
Enjoy these crostinis this summer either alone or with good company.
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The spicy avocado crostini bites are completely vegan, nut-free, gluten-free, and lactose-free.
Discover more vegetarian avocado recipes. Avocado lovers will also enjoy my avocado, beet, mango cucumber sushi!
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📕 What are Crostini?
Crostini are small Italian toasted or grilled white bread slices with olive oil.
You can use a french baguette or another thinner white bread.
These are traditional Italian appetizers, which are usually topped with antipasti (cured meats, vegetables, olives etc).
Bruschetta is similar but bruschetti use larger bread slices and they are usually rubbed with fresh or roasted garlic.
💡 Non-Vegan enhancements
If you are not a vegan and you want to add something to it, here is how:
- shrimp
- smoked salmon
- fish roe
- grated parmesan
- prosciutto
💭 FAQs
Sprinkle some lemon juice over your cut open avocado halves. Right after you cut them. The fruit flesh reacts with oxygen and turns brown, acid keeps that from happening.
Prepare the avocado paste and store it in an airtight container in your fridge. Take it out when you need it and toast your bread slices just before serving time.
Skip the cayenne pepper or use milk paprika powder.
Place avocado with bananas together into a fruit bowl in room temperature. The banana skin has properties that help the avocados to ripen faster.
👁️ More Vegan Party Appetizers
- Olive Tapenade
- Vegan Caviar Bites
- Bruschetta with Basil-Infused Olive Oil by thespicetrain.com
Dear reader, what's your favorite Avocado variety?
📖 Recipe
Spicy Avocado Crostini Appetizer
Ingredients
- 1 Large Avocado
- Juice of one Lime or lemon
- Pinch Salt
- Pinch Black Pepper Ground ground
- ½ Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper Ground ground
- 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil + 1 Tbs extra for toasting
- 1 Piece Garlic Clove
- 8 Slices Baguette or ciabatta
- Cilantro Fresh or parsley, chives, basil,...
Instructions
- Cut your avocado in half, discard the seed core and spoon all the fruit flesh into a mixer jar. Quickly add lime juice before the avocado turns brown.
- Add seasoning: Salt, pepper and cayenne pepper powder. As well as 3 Tablespoons of olive oil and 1 garlic pod.
- Blend so a smooth paste.
- Cut bread into thick slices and drizzle olive oil over your slices.
- Place under a griller until the bread is toasted golden brown.
- Spread spicy avocado paste over crunchy grilled bread slices and garnish with fresh cilantro or parsley or chives or basil or gardencress.
Well I am a bread LOVER....like really!! I would make a meal out of this. At least the avocado makes it healthy right??
there is no better way to soothe lunch times during this summer than to enjoy these petite and beautiful crostini along with Caprese salad....we are in for seconds....and third too,thanks so much for sharing 🙂
I really expected your spread to be greener! I love avocados but didn't always until I, like you, began eating them with vinaigrette or blended into spread like yours. Now I eat them (the Hass or the smaller, shiny ones) as often as I can. I love your recipe!
Yeah the kind I used was lighter in color. Thanks jamie!
Hi Helen
You remember me my childhood in Africa, Congo, we also had fruit trees in our garden.
It was so easy to pick them when they were ripe.
I didn't know there were different varieties of avocado.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
Nice recipe,
Chantal
These crostini look beautiful!
Thanks for the link to the avocado types. I've heard of Hass and Mexicola Grande, but none of the others. I love the idea of an avocado spread. This does look quite yummy! Love that kick of chili powder!
This is my kind of eating…I would love to have these lovely crostini to nibble on right now! The avocado mixture sounds delicious!
I don't remember buying avocados in India...or even seeing them. But that was years and years ago. Things have changed since. In any case, avocados are fairly new found love for me. I could live on those crostini.
A lovely crostini, the avocados must make it so rich but very healthy 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I can usually just buy the hass variety. I haven't seen any other on the grocery store here or may be I haven't looked . I will keep an eye out now.
It's so cool that you are growing your own. How chill is that.
This crostini sounds delicious, Helene.
This looks great! Pinning to my apps board and impressed you are growing your own tree.
G'day! I love avocados Helene and could go for one or two of these right now! YUM!
Cheers! Joanne
When I lived in New Zealand we had 5 mature avocado trees in our garden. Two people can't eat that many avocados but it was nice to walk outside and pick a ripe one. We had more than one variety. I've made a similar appetizer to this and the plate went back to the kitchen empty. I bet yours did too.
Great party food! Delicious.
Cheers,
Rosa
I was kinda sorta aware there were different avocado strains out there (just as there are different varieties of apple trees), but never really thought about it. I need to! Interesting stuff. And this is such a great recipe for crostini, too. Don't think I've ever had an avocado crostini before -- love the idea! Thanks.