Avocado toast with eggs gribiche

This recipe is based on Equinox Nutrition Pillar Ten — Eat Healthy Fats Daily — and was created by the culinary minds at the Tasting Table Test Kitchen.

Avocado Toast with Eggs Gribiche
(Serves 2)
Recipe adapted from Jordan Toft, Everleigh, Los Angeles

Eggs Gribiche Ingredients
4 large eggs
4 small shallots, finely chopped
1½ tsp. Dijon mustard
1½ tsp. salt-cured capers, rinsed and finely chopped
1 tbsp. finely chopped cornichons (or gherkins)
1 tbsp. sherry vinegar
¼ c. extra-virgin olive oil
¼ tsp. sea salt
⅛ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
1½ tsp. tarragon, chopped
1 tbsp. chives, finely chopped
1 tbsp. chervil, finely chopped
Squeeze of lemon juice

Avocado Spread Ingredients
2 avocados
Juice of ½ lemon
1/8 tsp. Tabasco
½ tsp. fine sea salt
¼ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
4 slices bread (preferably country loaf), toasted
¼ tsp. espelette pepper

Directions
1. Fill a small bowl with ice and water and set aside. Bring a small saucepan filled with water to a boil over high heat. Use a slotted spoon to slowly lower the eggs, one at a time, into the water. Cook for 7 minutes, turn off the heat, and use the slotted spoon to transfer the cooked eggs to the ice water. Once the eggs are cool enough to handle, gently roll them on a counter to crack the shell, then peel it away (be careful, as the egg yolks are still semisoft in the center).

2. To a small bowl, add the shallots, mustard, capers, cornichon, vinegar and olive oil and whisk to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Add the tarragon, chives, chervil and lemon juice and stir to combine. Quarter the eggs and gently add to the gribiche. Divide the eggs gribiche between two small bowls.

3. In a small bowl, mash the avocado with the lemon juice, Tabasco, salt and black pepper. Spread the avocado mixture over the toast and sprinkle with espelette pepper. Divide two pieces of avocado toast between four plates and serve with the bowls of eggs gribiche on the side.