Avocado Kimchi Toast

By Minnie Luong, Chef, Culinary Educator and Founder of Chi Kitchen

Elevate your every-day avocado toast by adding some Chi Kitchen Kimchi to it! Savory, crunchy, and packed with probiotics, this easy-to-make dish is a healthy and delicious addition to any breakfast or snack plate.

Method

1. In a large Dutch oven or soup pot, sauté onion and garlic in olive oil or butter. Sprinkle with cayenne, 1 tsp of sage, and salt. Sauté about 5 mins.

2. Add squash, sweet potato, broth, water, coconut milk. Bring to a boil, then cover and lower to simmer about 15 mins, or until squash and sweet potato are soft.

3. Purée contents of soup pot in batches using a food processor, until smooth. Pour back into soup pot and bring to a simmer. Or use an immersion blender and keep everything right in your pot.

4. In a medium sauté pan, brown the sausage and break up in small crumbles. Add to soup pot.

5. Stir spinach into soup.

6. In the same pan used for the sausage, brown the remaining sage in olive oil. Sort of fry it until crispy (you may need to add a little more olive oil to the pan to do this, depending on the type of sausage you used). Then add to the soup. Grind in some fresh pepper and enjoy!

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Ingredients

• 2 tbsp Chi Kitchen Kimchi (Napa or Vegan) juice

• 1 cup drained Chi Kitchen Kimchi, chopped finely

• 2 tbsp mayo or plain yogurt. If vegan, use tahini

• Pinch of kosher salt

• 1 ripe avocado

• 4 large slices of toasted country bread

• 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds

• 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped

Instructions

1. Whisk together kimchi juice and mayo/yogurt/tahini in a small bowl. Taste and add salt if need be.

2. Place 1/4 of avocado on pieces of toast, mash with a fork and sprinkle salt on each piece.

3. Spoon Chi Kitchen kimchi onto the toast, and drizzle kimchi sauce over each piece. Add sesame seeds and cilantro on top. Top with salt or pepper if you’d like. Enjoy!

About Chi Kitchen

Our mission at Chi Kitchen is to create flavorful, hand-crafted Asian foods for the Well-being & Vitality of our customers. Our products are loaded with billions of beneficial probiotics using only the best ingredients and free of preservatives.