This Avocado Egg Sandwich is a light and fresh way to start your day! It has all the delicious and fresh components you find in any good California-themed meal: An english muffin topped with pepper jack cheese for a kick, crispy bacon, fresh tomatoes and avocado and and a perfectly cooked sunny side up egg on top!

An open-faced breakfast sandwich topped with a sunny-side-up egg, avocado slices, tomato, and bacon on a toasted English muffin, served on a beige plate.

We love our avocados in California – and we also love easy egg sandwiches. This is a satisfying and hearty – yet also light – breakfast that everyone loves. It has all sorts of flavors and textures that will start your morning off right.

Flat lay of breakfast sandwich ingredients on a white surface: two strips of bacon, two eggs, an avocado, a tomato, two slices of cheese, an English muffin, a small pile of salt, and a small pile of pepper. Labels identify each item.

How to make an Egg Sandwich

Don’t overcook the English muffin when toasting it. It will toast a tiny bit more in the oven when you melt the cheese on it.
If you’re not into spicy foods, feel free to replace the pepper jack cheese with regular Monterey Jack cheese (or any other preferred cheese).
Be sure to fry your bacon until it’s nice and crispy.
I like to add salt and pepper to my tomato slices as well as my eggs to round out all the flavors.
Before adding the sliced avocado, squeeze a tiny bit for fresh lemon or lime juice over it. This brightens up the whole sandwich and keeps your avocado from turning brown.
To get the perfect sunny side up egg, fry it in olive oil and once it gets cooking use the oil to baste the white part of the egg to cook that without getting it on the yolk. That way you don’t have any of that unpleasant raw egg white that can sometimes occur in this type of egg, but you’ll still get that perfectly runny egg yolk that we all love!
These are not a good candidate for a make-ahead meal; they’re best served right away.

Be sure to see the recipe card below for full ingredients & instructions!

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Variations

Use white bread or whole wheat bread or any sandwich bread you like, even gluten free bread slices.
You can use any kind of English muffin.
You can add butter to the muffin, or any spread like mayonnaise or pesto
If you prefer, use scrambled eggs or even soft boiled eggs or poached eggs.
If you want to add other veggies, you could use thinly sliced cucumber, carrots, onions, or arugula.