Toast is sliced bread that has been browned by exposure to radiant heat. It appears as a main ingredient in many dishes, often as a base on which other food is served.

Toast dishes

• Avocado toast – mashed avocado on toast.^[1] A variety of additional ingredients can be used.^[1]
• Beans on toast^[2] – Today, baked beans are a staple convenience food in the UK, often eaten as part of the modern full English breakfast and particularly on toast (called simply 'beans on toast')
• Bruschetta – an antipasto (starter dish) from Italy consisting of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with olive oil and salt.^[3] Variations may include toppings of tomato, vegetables, beans, cured meat, or cheese.
• Cheese on toast – a snack made by placing cheese on slices of bread and melting the cheese under a grill.^[4] It is a simple meal, popular in the United Kingdom.
• Chipped beef on toast – typically consists of a white sauce and re-hydrated slivers of dried beef, served on toasted bread.^[5] It was a common dish in U.S. army mess halls during World War II, at which time it was given the nickname "shit on a shingle".^[6]
• Cinnamon toast – buttered bread, covered in a mix of cinnamon and sugar, and toasted in an oven.^[7]
• Creamed eggs on toast – consists of toast or American-style biscuits covered in a gravy made from bechamel sauce and chopped hard-boiled eggs^[8]
• Crostino – an Italian appetizer consisting of small slices of grilled or toasted bread and toppings^[9]
• Egg in the basket – is an egg fried in a hole made in a slice of bread^[10]
• French toast – bread soaked in milk, then in beaten eggs and then fried
• Garlic bread – consists of bread (usually a baguette or sour dough like a ciabatta), topped with garlic and olive oil or butter and may include additional herbs, like chives. It is then either grilled or broiled until toasted, or baked in a conventional or bread oven.
• Kaya toast – a traditional Singaporean breakfast item^[11] and well known snack in Malaysia,^[12] it is toast topped with kaya (coconut jam), a topping of sugar, coconut milk and eggs,^[13] pandan, and sometimes margarine or butter. Crackers are also sometimes used instead of toast.
• Melba toast – a dry, crisp and thinly sliced toast, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pâté
• Mince on toast – consists of cooked ground meat on a slice of toasted bread.^[14]
• Milk toast – a breakfast food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter.
• Ogura toast – a popular Japanese toast variety that originated in Nagoya's café scene in the 1920s. Red bean paste and butter are spread on thick slices of Shokupan.^[15]
• Pa amb tomàquet – a simple and typical recipe in Catalan cuisine consisting of bread, which may or may not be toasted, with tomato rubbed on it and seasoned with olive oil and salt.^[16] Various additional toppings may be added, such as cheese, anchovies and ham.^[17]
• Roti bakar – an Indonesian breakfast dish consisting of two slices of bread and a sweet filling.
• Roti john – sliced halves of a French loaf fried with a topping of minced mutton, sliced onions and egg.^[18]
• Shrimp toast – a Chinese dim sum dish made from small triangles of bread, brushed with egg and coated with minced shrimp and water chestnuts, then cooked by baking or deep frying.^[19]
• Soldiers – thin strips of toast; the strips that a slice is cut into are reminiscent of soldiers on parade. The toast is sliced in this manner so that it can be dipped into a soft-boiled egg that has had the top of its shell removed.^[20]
• Toast Hawaii – an open sandwich consisting of a slice of toast with ham and cheese, and a maraschino cherry in the middle of a ring of tinned pineapple^[21]
• Toast sandwich – a sandwich made by putting a thin slice of toast between two thin slices of bread^[22] with a layer of butter, and adding salt and pepper to taste
• Toast Skagen – a Swedish starter and food dish consisting of two pieces of toasted bread, mayonnaise, and prawns^[23]
• Toastie - an enclosed hot sandwich, which uses a pie iron/sandwich toastie maker
• Tongue toast – an historic traditional open sandwich prepared with sauteed beef tongue and scrambled eggs,^[24] it was sometimes served on buttered toast with a poached egg instead of a scrambled one.^[25]
• Welsh rarebit - a dish consisting of a hot cheese-based sauce served over slices of toasted bread.

• Toast dishes
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  Beans on toast
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  Cheese and spinach crostino
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  A slice of garlic bread
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  Shrimp toast with sesame seeds
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  Toast Hawaii