Avocado BLT Recipe
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!!!
Servings: 1 Sandwich
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!
Notes
- 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.
- For an even better BLT sandwich, try this sandwich recipe with bread slices made from our Bacon Bread Machine Recipe.