Vegemite Toast
Hot buttered toast with a thin spread of Vegemite. Simple, but easy to get wrong if you spread it like jam instead of like a seasoning.
- prep
- 2 min
- cook
- 3 min
- total
- 5 min
- serves
- 1
- level
- easy
Vegemite toast looks almost too simple to write up as a recipe, and the one real skill involved is restraint: a proper spread is thin, closer to a scrape, not a thick layer like jam or peanut butter.
Get the ratio wrong and it is genuinely unpleasant, which is exactly the experience plenty of visitors report after piling it on like a condiment rather than a seasoning.
Part of our 20 best Australian recipes list.
method
Toast the bread until golden and crisp.
Spread the hot toast generously with butter, right to the edges, while it is still warm enough to melt it slightly.
Take a very small amount of Vegemite on a knife and spread it as thinly as possible over the butter, more of a scrape than a spread.
Eat immediately, while the toast is still hot.
chef's tips
- Thin is the whole technique. Vegemite is a concentrated yeast extract, intensely salty and savory, and a thick spread, the way most newcomers apply it, is widely considered a beginner mistake, not a more authentic version.
- Butter goes on first and generously. It is not just for flavor, it also helps the thin layer of Vegemite spread evenly instead of tearing the toast.
- This is best eaten the moment the toast is ready, while it is still hot enough to melt the butter properly.
- Vegemite is widely available at larger international grocers outside Australia, or ordered online if your local shop does not carry it.