Recipe: Yummy The Best BLT

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How could it be, when everyone has strong feelings about their way—obviously the right way—of making one? Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass and reporter Jenniffer Weigel ask you how to make the best BLT. From easy Blt recipes to masterful Blt preparation techniques, find Those willing to put in the time and the effort to create this meal will certainly be rewarded, this is unquestionably one of the best. You can cook The Best BLT using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of The Best BLT

1. You need 6 slice of of French bread.
2. Prepare 2 tbsp of of butter.
3. It's 3 tbsp of of real mayo.
4. It's 10 of strips of bacon, cut in half.
5. You need 4 slice of of medium or sharp cheddar cheese or enough to cover the bread.
6. It's 4 of leafs of green leaf lettuce.
7. It's 8 slice of of tomatoes.
8. It's of Try California style.
9. Prepare 6 slice of of avacado. This is my favorite way!.
10. You need of Try Breakfast style.
11. Prepare 4 of eggs fried over easy (yolk runny, white cooked).

Indeed, a better name for the BLT might well be the Tomato Club, for it is the perfect tomato, not the bacon, that is the rarest, the most ephemeral, the most singularly delicious ingredient. At Stacked, the BLT comes with avocado—it's aptly called a B. A.—as well as house-smoked thick-cut bacon, heirloom tomatoes, butter lettuce, and a pink peppercorn aioli made with bacon fat. Halve and pit the avocados and scoop the flesh into a bowl.

The Best BLT step by step

1. Lay bacon flat on a griddle or large frying pan and fry till golden crispy.
2. Meanwhile butter 1 side of each slice of bread.
3. Drain bacon on paper towel. Dump grease and wipe pan with a paper towel..
4. Heat same griddle on med heat and toast bread starting with the butter side down. Flip bread and place cheese on 4 slices. Toast till golden on each side..
5. If you want egg, while bread is toasting fry eggs in a small amount of butter in a non stick skillet..
6. Place 5 half strips of bacon evenly on top of cheese, then lettuce, 2 slices of tomato, grind some pepper on tomato, spread mayo on top slice of bread and wallah!.
7. For California style: layer bacon on top of cheese, lettuce, tomato, ground pepper on tomato, then 1 and 1/2 slices of avacado, or enough to cover bread then mayo on top slice and press down gently. The avacado against the mayo keeps it from slipping out..
8. For Breakfast style: Place egg on top of cheese, then bacon, lettuce, tomato, ground pepper and spread mayo on top slice. ENJOY!.

The heat of jalapeños can vary, so it's best to taste a bit of the chili pepper before adding the full amount called for here. The other day, I was watching "The Best Thing I Ever Ate (with Bacon)" on the Food Network, and one of the chefs was describing his favorite BLT from a cafe in Brooklyn. Speaking of the bread, the best bread for a blt has some density, some presence. A good sliced Pullman loaf or country white is perfect. And choose fresh, super crisp lettuce.