B.E.L.T. Sandwich

Posted by Sandy Gluck

Yesterday's "Everyday Food" radio show sandwich was a joint venture. Dr Brent Ridge brought a couple of ingredients from his farm -- the eggs and the greens -- and that was my starting point.

I hard-cooked the eggs, put some greens on whole-grain bread along with thick slices of vine-ripened tomatoes, and whipped up some bacon mayo to top it all off. Bacon, egg, lettuce, and tomato sandwich -- a B.E.L.T!

What is a bacon mayo? Well, instead of serving each sandwich with the egg and a couple of slices of bacon, I simply cooked up three slices of bacon, coarsely chopped them, and doctored up the store-bought light mayo. It did the trick -- the crunch was there, the taste was there, but most of the fat was not! Here's the recipe:

THE RECIPE:
B.E.L.T. Sandwich
Makes 4 sandwiches

1/3 cup light mayo
3 slices cooked bacon, coarsely chopped
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons water
8 slices whole-grain bread
Leaf lettuce
4 hard-cooked eggs, thinly sliced (an egg slicer is perfect)
8 thick slices tomato
Coarse salt

1. In a small bowl, stir together mayo, bacon, lemon juice, and water. Spread
mixture on one side of each slice of bread. Top with lettuce, eggs, tomato
slices, and a sprinkle of salt, and close.

Comments

[matt]

Sandy, if I could have mysteriously transported myself to you when you made this I would have done just that!

This looks like heaven between two slices of bread! I'm a lover of bacon, eggs and tomatoes and I can tell this will become a favorite of mine!!!!

Plus I love the name of it :)

Bacon Mayo! Amazing!

[PaniniKathy]

Love the idea of bacon mayo - I want to try that! I recently experimented with arugula mayo (arugula blended w/mayo in a food processor) and BBQ mayo (equal parts BBQ sauce and mayo) for burger sliders on the 4th of July. Hurray for flavored mayos!! :-)