American

California BLT with Avocado

Name: California BLT with Avocado
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 slices sourdough bread; 12 slices bacon; 4 lettuce leaves; 2 tomatoes; 1 avocado; 1/4 cup mayonnaise; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Carol Jean @grandma_carolj

California BLT with Avocado is American home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy High fiber

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 slices sourdough bread
12 slices bacon
4 lettuce leaves
2 tomatoes
1 avocado
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Cook the bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crisp, then drain on paper towels.
Toast the sourdough slices until golden.
Spread mayonnaise on all the slices and mash the avocado onto half of them, seasoning with salt and pepper.
Layer the bacon, tomato, and lettuce on the avocado slices.
Close the sandwiches, cut in half on the diagonal, and serve.

Watch how to cook California BLT with Avocado

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

BLT and Avocado Sandwich (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato) Play the video

Serve it with

A American lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside California BLT with Avocado, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. California BLT with Avocado carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in California BLT with Avocado
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 470 kcal
Protein: 16 g
Carbs: 34 g
Fat: 30 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 780 mg
Saturated fat: 7 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

California BLT with Avocado takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.