This BLTA sandwich (or BLAT sandwich) has the perfect amount of bacon, lettuce, tomato, and avocado – plus a simple tip to keep your sandwich from falling apart. A great option for lunch or dinner, you can easily customize it to your liking or follow the recipe exactly for a filling and delicious meal.
BLTA sandwiches are such a quick and easy meal, and this one is no exception. They’re great in the summer when tomatoes are at their peak, but really you can enjoy them any time of the year.
This recipe is very basic, but still totally delicious. I like to make Traeger bacon to go on this sandwich, and I use a thick cut to make the sandwich a bit heartier, but any bacon will taste good.
If you decide to make a whole pack of bacon at once and have any leftover, use some as topping in a soup, like in this sweet potato pumpkin soup to balance out the sweetness, or in a salad like this chicken cobb salad recipe.
Before we get to the instructions, here are the keys to this sandwich:
- the layering – you want the lettuce next to the bread (or the mayo) to keep it from sliding around too much, and you don’t want the tomatoes touching the bread because it will make the bread soggy; and
- smashing the avocado so it’s more like a spread – if you keep it in slices, those suckers will slide out before you can say sandwich. Mashing them with a fork into one of the bread slices keeps the avocado sticking to the bread so it won’t slide.
Follow those and you can’t go wrong.
Ingredients
- Bread – I use gluten free bread to make this a gluten free blta, but use whatever bread you prefer. I love to toast it ahead of time, but it’s not necessary if you like soft bread.
- Cooked bacon – thick cut bacon is great, and I like to make Traeger bacon to use in this sandwich.
- Green leaf lettuce – green leaf works well because it’s slightly flat but still has some weight to it, but you can use any type (red leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, etc).
- Tomato – an heirloom tomato tastes great in this sandwich, but you can use whatever kind you like best.
- Avocado – use half a small avocado for a smaller sandwich, or half a large one for a really large sandwich. You can also use a full avocado if you’d like to put it on each slice of bread.
- Mayonnaise – this is optional, depending on if the avocado and tomato will provide enough moisture for you.
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