BLT Salad

Is there anything better than the nation's favourite sandwich, a classic BLT?

20 prep

20 minutes cook

Serves 4

Hugh Woodward

Ingredients

300gstreaky bacon

2 large pieces focaccia, cut into cubes

around 6 largetomatoes

1 tspflaked sea salt

1 tspcaster sugar

150gmayonnaise

1 wholeromaine lettuce

1 handfulchives, to serve

Well yeah, actually there is. It's this! The BLT salad! Taking the three components you know and love from the classic and remixing them into a delicious refreshing lunch or dinner. Crispy bacon, focaccia croutons and refreshing lettuce.

Method

First off, cut the streaky bacon into roughly 4cm wide strips.

Place the bacon in a heavy bottomed frying pan and turn the heat on low. Keep stirring the bacon and it'll begin to render its fat.

Keep doing this, gradually increasing the heat, until the bacon is crisp with plenty of bacon dripping in the pan. Remove the bacon with a slotted spoon.

Add the focaccia chunks to the hot pan and fry until golden on each side.

Cut the tomatoes into chunks, then place in a bowl and season with sugar and salt. Allow to sit for around 20 minutes then remove, leaving their tomato juices in the pan.

Whisk in the mayonnaise, then toss everything together in the bowl.

Serve on a wide platter.