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Directions:Wash lettuce, dry, and slce into thin shreds. Slice tomatoes into thick slices.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add the bacon in a single layer. Cook, turning occasionally, until crisp. Place the bacon on a paper towel lined plate and set aside.
Place the bread in a toaster and toast until lightly browned, butter if desired.
Spread each slice of bread with 1 tablespoon mayonnaise.
Top with bacon, tomatoes and lettuce. Season with salt and pepper to taste. |
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Notes: To cook bacon in the oven, preheat oven to 400°F. Place a rack on a rimmed baking sheet. Put bacon the rack and bake 18-20 minutes or until crisp.
Bread can be toasted 4-inches from the broiler for 3 minutes or until lightly toasted.
1. Marinate Your Tomato Slices
Make a super simple, two-ingredient vinaigrette with two parts red wine vinegar
and one part extra-virgin olive oil. Season it with some salt and pepper,
whisk it all together, and coat your tomato slices with it. Instead of
overwhelming the fresh tomato flavor, it makes it even more pronounced—even
if you have less-than-perfect tomatoes.
2. Doctor Up Your Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise is the perfect blank slate of condiments. Boost its flavor by
stirring in some lemon juice, a pinch of cayenne, and chopped basil.
And this seasoned mayo is great on more than just BLTs. After preparing our
Ultimate BLT Sandwich, one recipe commenter wrote, "You cannot eat it any other
way after tasting this. The mayo will be used on any sandwich that calls for
mayonnaise and the tomatoes will always be marinated."
3. Only Toast One Side of Your Bread
As delicious as they are, BLTs are a structural challenge. If not constructed
properly, the bacon slides free and the tomatoes slink out, leaving just soggy
bread and sad lettuce.
I found that toasted potato bread was the best bread for a BLT thanks to its
subtle sweetness, but toast can be brittle; soft slices hold on to contents
better. So we split the difference and toasted just one side of the bread.
The broiler is the best tool for this: Adjust an oven rack six inches from
the broiler element, place the bread on a baking sheet, and broil it until
lightly browned on one side only. This only takes about a minute, so keep an
eye on it. (Alternatively, you could stack two pieces of bread and toast them
in your toaster oven.)
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