This avocado BLT recipe creates a wonderful lunch sandwich. Everyone loves BLTs… but when you add avocado slices & grill the sandwich bread in butter, it is heavenly!!! Of course, BLTs are even better when they are made with homemade bacon bread. Double bacon deliciousness!
Our BLT is made with bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado and bacon bit bread. This is an easy sandwich to make. The “hardest” parts of this sandwich recipe are frying up the bacon, grilling the bread in butter and slicing the avocado. If you have a problem slicing avocado, please watch the instructional video below.
Avocado BLT Sandwich Recipe with Bacon Bread
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Instructional Video – How to Slice an Avocado
Ingredients – Avocado BLT Recipe
- 2 Slices – White Bread or Bacon Bread
- 4 Strips – Bacon (add more or less as desired)
- 5 Leaves – Lettuce (add more or less as desired)
- 3 Slices – Tomato (add more or less as desired)
- 4 Slices – Avocado (add more or less as desired)
- 4 Slices – Butter
- 2 Tablespoons – Mayonnaise
- Salt (optional)
- Black Pepper (optional)
Key Ingredient – Lots of Bacon!!!
Special Added Ingredient – Avocados!!!
Instructions – Avocado BLT Recipe
- Cut tomato into thin slices.
- Cut avocado into thin slices.
- Break lettuce into separate leaves.
- Fry bacon to your desired level of crispiness.
- Place bread slices in a frying pan. Depending on the size of your fry pan, you can grill either whole bread slices or cut the bread slices in half to better fit your frying pan.
- Place two butter slices (pats) on the top and bottom of each bread slice. Fry both bread slices.
- Grill bread to desired level of crispiness. Flip the bread slices often in order to avoid burning the butter covered bread.
- Remove bread from the frying pan and place on a cutting board.
- Spread mayonnaise on top of both slices.
- Place sandwich ingredients (tomato slices, lettuce leaves, avocado slices and bacon) on one slice of bread.
- Optional – If desired, lightly sprinkle some salt and black pepper on top of the sandwich ingredients.
- Place other bread slice on top and cut sandwich in half (if desired).
- Remove and serve on a plate.
- Eat & enjoy this delicious grilled BLT sandwich.
Tips – Avocado BLT Sandwich Recipe
- You can also make a great “regular” BLT sandwich by skipping the butter & grilling portion of this recipe. Or you can put the bread slices in the toaster in order to make a toasted BLT sandwich.
- If you need more help on how to select an avocado and how to peel an avocado, please read this California Avocados article.
- You can make this sandwich with white bread, whole wheat bread, multigrain bread, etc. However, for an even better BLT sandwich, you might like to try this recipe with bread slices made from our Bacon Bread Recipe (bread machine recipe).
- For more sandwich ideas, please visit Bread Dad’s Best Sandwich Recipes section.
BLT Sandwich Recipe Questions
What is a BLT?
A BLT is a popular sandwich made of Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato. The bread slices used in a BLT are usually toasted or grilled. BLTs are also often made with mayonnaise as the sandwich spread. However, BLT recipes vary greatly based on a person’s preferences. For example, BLTs might include additional ingredients (i.e. avocado), use different types of bread (i.e. oatmeal bread or bacon bread), etc. Some BLTs are even made without bacon or use a bacon substitute (i.e. hard tofu) if a person does not eat meat.
What are the benefits of eating avocado?
The first benefit of eating avocado is great taste! Another avocado benefit is that it is rich in potassium, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K and folate. It also has fiber and monounsaturated fatty acids.
For more avocado information, you might like to read these Healthline and Wikipedia articles.
Avocado BLT Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 Slices – Bread
- 4 Strips – Bacon (add more or less as desired)
- 5 Leaves – Lettuce (add more or less as desired)
- 3 Slices – Tomato (add more or less as desired)
- 4 Slices – Avocado (add more or less as desired)
- 4 Slices – Butter
- 2 Tablespoons – Mayonnaise
- Salt (optional)
- Black Pepper (optional)
Instructions
- Cut tomato into thin slices.
- Cut avocado into thin slices.
- Break lettuce into separate leaves.
- Fry bacon to your desired level of crispiness.
- Place bread slices in frying pan. Depending on the size of your fry pan, you can grill either whole bread slices or cut the bread slices in half to better fit your frying pan.
- Place two butter slices (pats) on the top and bottom of each bread slice. Fry both bread slices.
- Grill bread to desired level of crispiness. Flip the bread slices often in order to avoid burning the butter covered bread.
- Remove bread from the frying pan and place on a cutting board.
- Spread mayonnaise on top of both slices.
- Place sandwich ingredients (tomato slices, lettuce leaves, avocado slices and bacon) on one slice of bread.
- Optional – If desired, lightly sprinkle some salt and black pepper on top of the sandwich ingredients.
- Place other bread slice on top and cut sandwich into half (if desired).
- Remove and serve on plate.
- Eat & enjoy this delicious grilled BLT sandwich!