Your typical avocado toast is going to be loaded with sodium. Most avocado toast recipes are made with high sodium bread, and then they add a ton of sodium to the avocado mash that goes on top. In this recipe, we use a lower sodium bread and a variety of spices to add flavor without going overboard on the sodium.
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Is avocado toast high in potassium?
Yes, since avocados are a high potassium fruit, avocado toast is also going to be high in potassium. However, you can probably still include higher potassium fruits and vegetables into your meal plan if you want to. There are many strategies you can use to help control your potassium levels that don’t involve avoiding every single high potassium food.
Avocado Toast Ingredients
The part that makes this recipe easy is that there are only 4 ingredients (at least once you have the seasoning pre-made and on hand), and you’re not spending a bunch of time tediously chopping. The fours ingredients are:
- Kidney Friendly Bread – the first step to ensuring your avocado toast is lower in sodium is to select a lower sodium bread. Bread is the number on source of sodium in the American diet, so finding a good low sodium bread is a great first step in lowering your sodium intake in a day. We have several recommendations here. For our recipe, we are using one from Pepperidge Farm.
- Avocado – Avocado is obviously the star of this recipe. One of my favorite thing about avocado is that it is high in fiber and healthy fats (not to mention packed full of antioxidants). When using avocados in recipes (especially in one where you need to mash it up), it is really important to get one that is ripe. You’ll want an avocado that has dark green skin that is almost black. When you give it a gentle squeeze, it should yield a bit to that pressure and feel a bit soft, but not mushy. Black, mushy avocados are overripe. Slightly soft and dark green, almost black are perfect. I like to buy several avocados at a time of varying degrees of darkness so that they don’t all ripen at the same time.
- Lime Juice – In many recipes involving avocados, lime juice is added to help prevent the avocado from oxidizing, or turning brown over time. However, you’ll be eating this immediately, so I’m using the lime juice just to add some flavor!
- Avocado Seasoning Blend – this is technically 7 ingredients, but I consider it one ingredient because once you’ve whipped up a batch of this seasoning, you are all set for a couple of weeks!
Avocado Toast Seasoning Ingredients
The key to making this recipe easy and flavorful is the seasoning. I make my seasoning in a big batch ahead of time, so it is ready whenever I need it. I include the following spices:
- Salt – yes, I actually include salt. A kidney friendly diet is not a “no sodium” diet. You can still include salt in your diet, we just want to make sure to use an appropriate amount. Most people find that if the use other spices to add flavor tot heir food that they can use less salt and still enjoy the flavor. This is what I have found with my guac seasoning. If all I use is salt to season the avocado, then I need A LOT of salt. But if I use other seasonings, then I can use much less.
- Garlic Powder – garlic is a great flavor, and using the powder is a convenient way to get the flavor of garlic without having to actually chop one up. Just be sure that you are using garlic POWDER and not garlic SALT. Garlic salt will be very high in sodium.
- Onion Powder – just like garlic powder, we are able to get the flavor of onions without having to chop one up. And once again, just be sure you are not using onion SALT, which will be high in sodium.
- Cumin – cumin is a popular spice in taco seasoning and has a bit of a warm, earthy flavor (but in a good way!)
- Coriander – Coriander comes from the seeds of the cilantro plant (but don’t taste like cilantro). They have a warm, nutty, and slightly spicy taste.
- Cayenne Pepper – cayenne peppers are a type of chili pepper known for their fiery and intense heat. We don’t use much in this spice blend, so if you enjoy more heat, feel free to add more!
- Chili Powder – This spice is made from dried chili peppers that have been ground into a powder. It can have a bit of a smoky flavor, with just a bit of heat
Recipe
Easy Low Sodium Avocado Toast
Nutrition:
Nutrition:
1
servings5
minutes0
minutes462
kcalAn easy and more kidney friendly avocado toast
Ingredients
1 slice large kidney friendly bread (or two slices of smaller bread)
1 medium avocado, size 70
1/2 tsp avocado toast seasoning
1/2 Tbl lime juice
- Avocado Toast Seasoning Blend
1 tsp salt
8 tsp onion powder
3 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cayenne pepper
2 tsp chili powder
Directions
- Toast bread until golden or desired toastiness.
- Cut open avocado, remove pit, and scrape green flesh into a bowl. Do not try to mix directly on top of the bread or it will get mushed up.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of seasoning and life juice, then mash with a fork until evenly mixed and there are no large chunks (a little lumpy is fine!)
- Spread onto toast and enjoy!
