Celebrity chef, author, and TV personality Eitan Bernath joined Cheddar News to discuss his cookbook "Eitan Eats The World" and showed our anchors how to make his Bruschetta Avocado Toast recipe.

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Celeb Chef Eitan Bernath on How to Make Bruschetta Avocado Toast

Welcome back to cheddar news wrap everyone. It's time for news wraps. Food stand personally, my favorite segment bringing you the most mouthwatering recipes for you to try at home. Today's Guest is a 20 year old celebrity chef, author, entrepreneur and activist. He brings full proof techniques to social media, where he teaches millions to whip up a wide range of snacks, entrees, desserts and more. Welcome to the show, HN Bernath, welcome to the show, so excited to have you Okay, there's a lot here, I'm so excited. Let's start with a cookbook that you wrote at 18 years old, Congratulations on all your success, it's available now, tell us about the book and the process of putting it together. Yeah, so it meets the world as my cookbook came out this May and I described the food in it as comfort food from around the world. You know those foods that you go to for comfort, maybe when you've had a long day, you come home you want to eat something with family, with friends and it was an incredible experience writing it. I've been developing this recipe since I was a young teenager and it's crazy that it's like a very, like, physical, real, real life thing. I need to get my hands on that book. That sounds absolutely incredible. What do you have here? So we're gonna be making my bruschetta avocado toast, It's one of my favorite recipes from the book. It is like basically, I love bruschetta and I love avocado toast and I was like, well they're both kind of similar to both bread with sitting on top. Well, I can't put both in my book but I can combine them and I did just that and it is just like a super fun, flavorful little appetizer or snack or late night snack early morning. It is just super fresh and delicious. I want to ask you some questions, but I heard you're putting me to work. So what am I doing while we're talking can? The fun little fact is I love to use whisks to mash my avocado, mash avocado, just adding your lemon zest and lemon juice and meanwhile, I'll cut up our tomato while we chat. So I am curious where do you get your inspiration for all your recipes here? So I kind of try to take inspiration everywhere. I always joke that I get extremely strong cravings almost like pregnancy cravings, even though that's obviously not possible, but really, I just, I get like pretty intense cravings. So that's a big sources, like I like maybe see something on tv or eating in a restaurant and I'm like, I need to make this and then I do. But I think, you know, also like, I really try to, you know, learn from the world around me whether it's traveling in a restaurant, talking to people like I feel like inspiration really is everywhere. So walk us through how we're making this if people at home want to try at home, you know, for something quick. Yeah, it's super easy, basically, you're just mashing together the avocado with lime juice and by the way much easier with a whisk. I have, I know a lot of people use fork, I'm telling you, the whisk is the way to go. She just basically mashing that up, making this kind of thing of like almost a consensus of like a chunky guacamole. Then over here, this is just a very classic bruschetta topping. So super duper, easy. I'm just going to take these, these to our bowl and then I actually was just in Italy, I took a two week trip to Naples. It was very fun and it's kind of inspired also by that making a mess. If you're not making a mess in the kitchen, you're not having fun. So basically we're gonna add the classic type of toppings, add some balsamic vinegar, a little bit of chopped onion into there. Then also I forgot to tell you and you tear in some basil. I'm gonna tear in some basil into here as well, then a little bit of olive oil, garlic and we're just going to mix that together and now it's assembly time. It is literally that it's very easy. I already toasted some at home and basically we are just going to assemble it like this. It's going to take your avocado mash right on top of there? So stop it with our brush eto. Do you have a favorite recipe and you said this is one of your favorites. Any others? One of my other favorites is a croque, Monsieur tuna melt in the book. It is basically like taking a tuna melt and giving it the croque. Monsieur treatment. Please show the cameras at home, by the way. What's the biggest advice for people that shy away from cooking because of time, effort money or just they're just intimidated? Yeah, I mean my my recognition always just start cooking the food that you already know you like to eat. You know, don't get too adventurous right in the beginning because you know, you're bound to occasionally mess up in the kitchen. And I find that if you start out by cooking food that already like to eat, even if it doesn't go super well, it'll be good enough and you'll probably still like it. So, I want to talk about you during the pandemic because that's when you started bringing your recipes to life. What was the first video you made that of course went viral. It was actually a video of my school cafeteria. No. Yeah, there was actually wasn't me cooking. I did make a lot of it's been cooking, but the first there was this trend going on called my best friend's rich check, which basically was like this video where you like show your friends cool house or something and I was like, all right, let me do my world's best school cafeteria check. My school had a crazy cafeteria. I filmed it. I posted it and within a few hours I got over a million views, incredible. Okay, I'm gonna try this because it smells so delicious. Little cheers, cheers. Alright let's go to try. Oh my God, this is so good and the fact that you made it in seconds is incredible. I have to ask what's next for you first, number one, you know right now, I'm really excited. I just started on season three of the Baltimore show, we love to hear on cheddar. Yes, I actually filmed my first segment earlier today in the same outfit, I must say. So we are flattered. There you are. I just felt also with kelly. This is so much fun and I just got a new kitten, literally this friday, her name is Doja Cat, I don't know if you love it. She's very little very cute and I'm really just focusing right now on my content, trying to cope with the new fun ways to get people excited about cooking to be excited to be in the kitchen and I think that's really what excites me, I'm so impressed by you. Please come back soon. This is gonna be a household name very soon guys, Celebrity chef author and tv personality. Thank you so much. It's incredible. I can't wait to finish eating this