Whipped Feta Honey Toast

Sweet and savory flavors collide in this Whipped Feta Honey Toast. Briny feta, protein-rich Greek-style yogurt and heart-healthy olive oil are blended to create a smooth, silky spread for toasty whole-wheat baguette slices. A drizzle of honey sweetens and balances out the saltiness of the spread, while fresh herbs add an interesting savory twist. A sprinkling of zingy lemon zest keeps this toast bright and light. Keep reading for expert tips, like how to ensure your spread has the smoothest texture.

Tips from the EatingWell Test Kitchen

These are the key tips we learned while developing and testing this recipe in our Test Kitchen to make sure it works, tastes great and is good for you too! 

• For a completely smooth texture, choose feta in brine. You won’t get that with vacuum-sealed feta, but if that’s what you have, you can pass the feta mixture through a fine-mesh strainer for a better result.
• Crumbling the feta before processing helps speed up the process of blending it until smooth.
• You want to avoid over-whipping the feta, which may cause the mixture to be runny.
• Store the whipped feta in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. When ready to serve, let it come to room temperature and whisk it or gently whip it in a food processor.

Nutrition Notes

• It’s hard to beat the flavor of feta but if you find its saltiness too much, whether in flavor or for health reasons, you could swap it for goat cheese, which is lower in sodium but has a similar tanginess. Besides sodium, like other types of cheese, feta adds some protein and calcium to this toast. 
• Whole-wheat baguette slices add a nuttiness to the toast that you can’t get from a baguette made from refined white flour. The whole wheat also adds fiber, antioxidants and healthy fat from the wheat kernel—most of which is removed during the process of making refined white flour. 
• Unlike most other sweeteners, honey offers a few health benefits, including antioxidants to help reduce inflammation. It also contains compounds that may help heal wounds faster and may support the immune system with intense exercise training. With that said, honey is still a type of sugar, and your body breaks it down like it does any other simple carbohydrate. This means that too much of it will affect your blood sugar levels, so use honey in moderation.