Sweet Ricotta Toast
Golden toast, whipped ricotta, honey drizzle and lemon zest.
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Olive oil and flaky salt over honeyed ricotta sounds odd until you try it. The salt sharpens the sweetness, the olive oil adds fruity depth, and suddenly a 3-ingredient breakfast tastes like something a chef built. Don't skip them. Use the good olive oil here - this is one of the recipes where it actually shows.
Ingredients
Everything below makes 2 servings.
- 4 slicessourdough breadthick slices, 1/2-inch
- ¾ cupwhole-milk ricotta
- 2 tbsphoneyfor drizzling
- 1 tsplemon zestfrom 1 lemon, finely zested
- ¼ tspvanilla extract
- 2 tspextra-virgin olive oilthe good stuff - for finishing
- 1 pinchflaky sea saltfor finishing
In the app these rescale to however many people you're feeding.
Nutrition
Per serving, as written.
- 450calories
- 17gprotein
- 56gcarbs
- 17gfat
Swaps move these numbers. A different protein or base changes them.
Instructions
Knife work first, then the stove. Nothing below asks you to chop while something burns.
- Zest the lemon (just the yellow - the white pith underneath is bitter).
- In a small bowl, whisk the ricotta with vanilla until it loosens and turns slightly fluffy, 30 sec - this is the whip move that makes it spreadable not gloopy.
Toast bread
Toast the bread slices until deep golden - toaster on high, or 400°F oven 5 min, or under the broiler 2 min watching closely. You want crisp edges, not just warm bread. Soft toast under ricotta turns sad fast.
4 min · hands onSpread ricotta
Spread a generous whipped ricotta over each warm toast, all the way to the edges. The toast should disappear under a soft cloud.
1 min · hands onFinish
Drizzle honey across each toast in lazy zig-zags. Shower with lemon zest. Drizzle olive oil. Pinch of flaky salt over the top - the salt and honey and olive oil is the move that makes this taste like a restaurant instead of a snack. Eat immediately.
1 min · hands onMake it yours
Every swap here is one Maui already knows how to make, including what it does to the timing.
Lower 2 eggs into boiling water 6.5 min, ice bath, peel, halve over the plate. Adds about 8 minutes.
Scatter a handful of strawberries or raspberries over the top - extra sweetness and color. Adds about 2 minutes.
1 tbsp toasted crushed pistachios - adds tree-nuts allergen, only if no nut allergy. Adds about 1 minutes.
Plant ricotta whips similarly - looser texture, sweeten same way.
What keeps
Toast goes soggy under ricotta within 10 min. This is the kind of breakfast you make 5 min before you eat.
The ricotta whip CAN be made ahead (3 days fridge) and spread day-of.
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