A BLT is simple, but the details make all the difference. In this video, I’m showing you how to make the ultimate BLT sandwich with my tricks that take it to the next level.
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Ingredients:
½ pound bacon
2 large tomatoes, cut into thick slices
1 teaspoon sugar
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 head romaine, broken into leaves, washed and dried
4 slices white bread, toasted
2–3 tablespoons mayonnaise
Dressing:
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar + extra for sprinkling
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon water
Instructions:
Step 1 – Cook the bacon
Arrange bacon in a single layer in a skillet and add ¼ cup water. Simmer over medium heat until the water evaporates and the bacon becomes crispy, 10-15 minutes.
Step 2 – Make the dressing
In a bowl, whisk together the mustard and vinegar. Whisk in the olive oil and water until combined.
Step 3 – Prepare the vegetables
Season the tomato slices with sugar, salt, pepper, and a drizzle of dressing. Toss the romaine lettuce with some of the dressing so the leaves are lightly coated.
Step 4 – Assemble the BLT
Layer dressed lettuce on the bottom slices of toast. Add tomatoes, then bacon, then more lettuce. Spread mayonnaise on the top slices of bread and close the sandwich. Press gently, slice, and serve.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Why seasoning matters for BLTs
0:31 Making the lettuce dressing
1:10 Preparing the lettuce
1:28 Slicing and seasoning the tomatoes
2:18 Cooking the bacon
3:11 The bacon fat trick
3:30 Assembling the sandwich
5:01 The final BLT
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41 Comments
Exceptional as always 🤌🏼 thank you!!
Alex how do you cook your bacon? Stove top or oven.
I'm trying This !
Chef Alex proving that even a BLT deserves respect ☺️
I miss this kind of stuff on Food Network.
Chef you make the simple things sooooooo good 👍
Alex…you're my favorite chef!!! Love your genuine personality ❤
A tour de force BLT. Great cooks think alike!
1:47 this is cool!!
When we think if sugar the thought is about a dessert
When we think of salt and pepper the thought is about something savoury
It is very surprising to learn that Sugar could season savoury ingredients, just to enhance the natural sugars from within
That is why she is The ICAG
2:48 HellMann’s Mayo
But I am curious to know the differences of flavour between classic mayo and Kewpie Mayo
As well as if they’d be interchangeable
Nothing wrong with thick a unruly 😏
Love a drippy sandwich! Thanks so much 🥰
I'm going to guess Hellmann's mayonnaise (former NY girl here). 🙂
Your BLT makes my mouth water.
Think I need a bacon tutorial… water?
A BLT hold the L & T is one of my favorites! 😂😂😂😂
Love a delicious BLT, but love a BELT even more lol. Thanks Alex for the share!🥓🍅🥬💕👍
So sad to hear about Chopped being cancelled. End of an era.
Blts we're already on my menu this week. Lots of good ideas with this video. Curious about the sugar on the tomatoes. Is that kind of like putting salt on watermelon?
She is the best! ❤
It must be DUKES mayonnaise for me!
My mouth is watering.
Oh my gah those tomatoes 😋. I can't see any restaurant ever giving you anything close. Looks delicious, thanks Alex! I think only Hellman's mayo has that blue cone within the clear top squeeze bottle.
This made my spring planting itch a thousand times worse!! But here in 7a we're still 6 weeks away. 🌱
Oh, I love all those great tips!!
I’m a southerner and I usually use green tomatoes… sometimes fresh, sometimes fried.
I can hear the mayo commercial now….."Bring out the [mayo brand name] and bring out the best." (Though, it has a different name here west of the Rockies in Southern California)
Alex, you taught me something new today. That is a most interesting way of making a BLT. I never thought of that. Looks time consuming, but the taste, looks incredible.
Wow have to try that also I’d need a clean shirt after that sandwich and that’s the best kind nice and juicy
Wow it’s raining BLT…🥓🍅🥬🍞
BLT is all about the bacon!
Duke’s?
This video actually made my mouth water.
Too wet! Will need 5 napkins please!
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No me canso de verte cocinar eres muy hermosa 😍
What did she mean about starting the bacon in water? I'm curious because that bacon looked GOOD
This is purely magic. If it were me, I'd skip the T and add some C(heese). And I am going to guess that's Hellman's mayo.
Hellmanns!
❤❤❤
It looks delicious!
It would have been nice to show us how you made the bacon with water. In your BLT video.
That's Hellman's mayo if I'd guess 😁