Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado & Tomato (BLAT) Sandwiches
It’s hard to think of a better summer sandwich combination than garden-fresh tomato, bacon, lettuce, and avocado.
Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado & Tomato (BLAT) Sandwiches
Photo Credit : Adam DeTour/styling by Sheila JarnesA sandwich of garden-fresh tomatoes with mayo on white bread is a thing of beauty. Add some bacon and lettuce, and it’s also wonderful. Add some avocado to that, and you get an even lovelier variation. Just be sure to use the freshest, sweetest tomatoes you can get. And don’t skip salting the tomato slices while you build the sandwich—it makes a difference.
This recipe first appeared in the May/June 2024 issue of Yankee Magazine.
Yield:
4 sandwichesIngredients
8 slices thick-cut bacon, uncooked
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
8 slices Pullman-style or white sandwich bread, lightly toasted
4 1/3-inch-thick slices of beefsteak tomato
Flaky sea salt
8 pieces butter lettuce, trimmed to fit sandwich
1 ripe avocado, pitted, peeled, and sliced
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 425°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and lay the bacon slices on the paper. When the oven is hot, bake until the bacon is browned and crisp to your preference, 12 to 18 minutes. Remove sheet from oven and let cool.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise and Worcestershire sauce. Spread a scant tablespoon of the mayo mixture on each slice of bread. Top each of the bottom slices of bread with a tomato slice, then sprinkle with sea salt. Top the tomato with 2 pieces of lettuce, then 4 or 5 avocado slices, then the bacon. Top with bread, mayo-side down. Cut in half and serve.
Amy Traverso
Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine and co-host of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with WGBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.
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