[Recipes] BLAT Toasts – Your New Easy Party Snack Obsession

Yields: 16 toasts | Prep Time: 5 minutes | Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 4 oz bacon (about 4 strips), cut into ½-inch pieces
• 4 slices white sandwich bread
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• ½ tsp kosher salt, plus more to taste
• ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
• 3 large romaine lettuce leaves
• 5 super-ripe grape tomatoes
• ½ ripe avocado

Instructions

Step 1: Cook the Bacon

• Set oven to 400°F.
• Lay bacon in a single layer in a chilly big metal pan.
• Unattended, cook for approximately five minutes under medium heat until one side browns.
• Stir and heat for another one to two minutes, until crisp.
• Move bacon to a dish and keep the pan's rendered fat.

Step 2: Prepare the Bread

• Using a serrated knife, trim crusts off bread slices.
• Slice each piece into four triangles, or 16 total.
• On a sheet pan, grease-side up, dip one side of each triangle into the set aside bacon fat.

Step 3: Toast the bread.

• Toast bread triangles for four to five minutes, or until edges are crisp and gently brown.

Step 4: Prepare the toppings.

• Combine salt, pepper, and mayo in a small bowl.
• Cut romaine leaves lengthwise in half and then rip into 2-inch fragments.
• Cut tomatoes into ¼-inch rounds and then salt them well.
• Slice avocado into ¼-inch pieces, then horizontally split each piece.

Step 5: Put together the toasts.

On each toast, spread 1 tsp of seasoned mayo.

Top every one with:

• A leaf of lettuce
• An avocado slice
• Two bacon slices
• A tomato slice
• Arrange toppings in a somewhat shingled or overlapping manner.
• Top with some black pepper.