BLT Salad

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

20 prep

20 minutes cook

Serves 4

Hugh Woodward
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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.

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    Hugh Woodward

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    Hugh's culinary life began aged 14 when he cooked spaghetti hoop burritos to impress girls. Since then his colourful career has taken him to performing in Skegness, making cheese in Peckham, running a wine bar on Columbia Road and reluctantly working in a (briefly) Michelin Starred restaurant. He likes fish, things cooked on charcoal, cheap dinners and London's rich cultural tapestry of food shops. When he's not cooking or eating he can be found mudlarking by the river Thames, buying bits in flea markets and hanging out with his cat Keith.

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