Avocado toast may be everyone’s favorite brunch item, but this recipe for pumpkin toast will change your mind. Like avocado toast, pumpkin toast has its health benefits. Pumpkin is full of fiber that will help keep you full until your next meal (because tbh, that's all we're really thinking about). It is also packed with vitamins A and C, which are essential for eye health and strengthening your immune system. Not to mention, the beta-carotene also found in pumpkin has been linked cancer prevention. 

Even better, this recipe takes hardly any time to make and is relatively inexpensive. Using a bag of frozen pumpkin, you can whip up pumpkin toast for yourself in just three steps. While you may feel guilty about buying expensive avocados, there's no need to worry about going broke buying frozen or canned pumpkin. Heck, you can eat pumpkin toast every day. 

Pumpkin Toast

  • Prep Time:0
  • Cook Time:3 mins
  • Total Time:3 mins
  • Servings:1
  • Easy

    Ingredients

  • 1 slice bread
  • 1 serving frozen pumpkin
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • Optional olive oil or milk
  • Optional cinnamon and currants
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  • Step 1

    Lightly butter and toast your choice of bread.

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  • Step 2

    Microwave one serving of frozen pumpkin with a tablespoon of butter. You can add a couple teaspoons of olive oil or milk if the pumpkin isn't soft enough.

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  • Step 3

    Top toast with pumpkin, sprinkle on cinnamon and currants, and enjoy.

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With this easy recipe, pumpkin toast will reign over the world of toasts. Customize it any way you like by adding cinnamon and currants (like this recipe) for a sweet take, or melted cheese for a more savory take. Make it look pretty, take pictures, and post on Instagram. Pumpkin toast will surely blow up on social media as the next king of toasts.