Classic BLT Sandwich Recipe
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A near-perfect balance of sweet, smoky, crusty, and salty, the BLT is what food dreams are made of. If only it were healthy to eat bacon and mayo on a daily basis.
This recipe was featured as part of our Tomatoes! recipe gallery.
INSTRUCTIONS
Toast 2 slices of thick-cut sourdough or wheat sandwich bread. Spread 1 piece with 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise, then layer on a few thick-cut tomato slices and sprinkle with kosher or sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Top with a couple of slices of crisped bacon and a large piece of leaf lettuce. Close with the other piece of bread, slice in half, and serve.
Like a video on here showed, toasting the bread in the bacon grease makes a BLT next level, for flavour as well as heart attacks.
But come on, recipes like this make me think chow might become like food networks recipes.
See: Late Night Bacon.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ra...
I need a recipe for this?
Chow...ur letting me down!
What's the target audience for these instructions on how to build a sandwich? Surely it's not aimed at chowhounds.
This is a TBL, not a BLT! Heresy!
oh, THAT is what the T stands for. been looking for this recipe forever.
@banjoman - I have to agree . . . and what's interesting in reading the comments is that this is not the first time they have posted this recipe! I wonder if there are folks who google for BLT recipes . . . and did you see that there's a video???
Thank god they gave us a recipe! I had no idea how to make a BLT before I read this!
Actually it's the bread, not the bacon and mayo, that makes this unhealthy. Wrap this up in lettuce and go to town!
A tablespoon seems like way too much mayo (the sandwich pictured is literally awash in the stuff). I like to apply just a thin layer on each slice of bread instead. And the bacon is salty enough; no need to add extra salt just for the tomatoes.
If you're counting calories, have your BLT with the bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo on the side!
I actually use good peppered turkey bacon, and avocado--when I make this on a regular basis. I save the full fat bacon for a treat!
Adding Avocado really turns it up another diminsion. But its hard to beat the Classic style.
LOL @ Jim M's comment =)
For a fat free, low calorie sandwhich, just eat the lettuce and tomato portion =P
One of my favorites, the BLT at T-Burger in Monrovia serves them up with plenty of densely layered lettuce and mayo with crunchy bacon. It's my quick, guilty, comfort food.
sub spicy mustard for mayo, imho.
Once in a while, some avocado slices makes it even better. I guess you'd call that a BLAT instead of BLT.
For a 50 percent reduction in fat and calories, eat half.
Just give it a tiny skim of mayo, omit the salt, render the bacon and it is practically spa food!!