Avocado tostadas are quick and easy to prepare. Keep them simple with sliced avocado or guacamole or dress them up with a variety of delicious toppings! Try one of these easy avocado tostadas on your busiest days.

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Step aside avocado toast, try avocado tostadas instead! Tostadas are great for summertime since they require minimal, if any, heating up of the stove or oven.

They're also a hit when entertaining. Spread a tostada buffet of toppings and let everyone make their own!

🧄 Very useful ingredient notes

Tostada shells - Tostada shells are corn tortillas that have been fried or baked. You can find them in well-stocked grocery stores that carry tortillas. If you're avoiding oils when buying store-bought tostada shells, look for baked tostada shells, which are prepared with no or very little oil or make your own baked tostada shells without oil in the air fryer or oven.
Avocados - Wanna know my secret for beautiful avocados 90% of the time? I buy my avocados when they're hard and somewhat green (since they've haven't been bruised yet at the store). Then, I put them on the counter to ripen in my fruit bowl. I check them each day by gently pressing at the top of the avocado by the stem. If it gives a little, then I put it in the refrigerator in a bowl, to protect it from getting bruised. It'll keep in the fridge for a week or two! And, most of the time, they're beautifully green inside when I open them.

🔪 Instructions

Making avocado tostadas are really a matter of assembly, especially for the basic versions with guac and sliced avocado. They are super quick and easy to make!

How to slice an avocado

Use a knife to cut the avocado into two pieces lengthwise, rotating the avocado as you cut.
Then, twist the avocado to separate the two pieces.
Carefully strike the avocado pit with the knife (keep your hand/fingers safe and out of the way!), rotate the pit with the knife in it, then pull the pit out and throw it away.
Use the tip of the knife to gently cut slices in each avocado half lengthwise. Then, use a spoon to scoop out the avocado slices from the peel.

If you'd like to dress them up as pictured, you'll need to prepare tofu scramble, vegan sour cream and quick pickled onions.

three avocado tostadas with garnishes on wooden background

Guacamole Tostadas

Simple Version: Prepared guacamole on tostada shells

Dress it up: Guacamole tostada topped with tofu scramble, vegan sour cream

How to make quick guacamole:

Mash an avocado with lemon or lime juice, salt and pepper, to taste. Optionally, add diced tomato, jalapeño peppers, onion and garlic.

simple and dressed up versions of guacamole tostadas

Sliced Avocado Tostadas

Simple: arrange avocado slices on tostada shell and sprinkle with salt, black pepper and fresh lime juice.

Dress it up: Top with shredded lettuce, thinly sliced red onion or quick pickled onions and vegan sour cream.

Simple and dressed up version of sliced avocado tostadas

Black Bean and Sliced Avocado Tostadas

Simple: Hot refried black beans and sliced avocado on tostada shells, sprinkled with salt, black pepper and fresh lime juice.

Dress it up: Top with diced cherry tomatoes, vegan sour cream

simple and dressed up version of black bean and avocado tostadas

🗺 Cultural influences

Tostadas are enjoyed traditionally throughout Mexico and Latin America. Avocado is an authentic and accidentally vegan topping for tostadas of all kinds!

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