Bread-Free Mini BLTs
Ingredients
- turkey bacon strips, sliced in half lengthwise, ½ strip per tomato
- strips of lettuce, any kind, but with curly edges, trimmed to about 2" wide
- small rounded tomatoes, bottom sliced, seeds & insides scooped out
- canola mayonnaise
Special Equipment
- toothpicks or cocktail skewers
- melon baller
- pastry bag or plastic bag with hole cut in the tip
How-to
- Preheat oven to 375º
- Place turkey bacon strips on a cookie sheet and bake in a 375º oven for 8 minutes each side. Blot lightly to remove excess grease
- Working quickly and when bacon is cool enough to handle, wrap each strip around your finger into a coil and secure with a toothpick or skewer. Set aside
- Prepare tomatoes by slicing a small piece off the bottom so that they will sit flat on a plate
- Slice an ellipse of tomato off the top. With a melon baller, scoop out the insides. Set aside on a paper towel to dry
Assemble
- Take strips of lettuce and lay flat. With a pastry bag (or a toothpick) put small amounts of mayo in about 3-4 spots on the lettuce, keeping each end of the lettuce free of mayo to keep it from spilling over the edges as you will be rolling it up
- Lay a strip of bacon on the lettuce and roll the lettuce and bacon into a circle. Insert inside hollowed out tomato
- Add a drop of mayo on top and serve