Club BLT with Avocado and Chipotle Mayo

So a BLT seems kind of like it's not in need of an actual recipe. Bacon, lettuce, tomato. Duh. And even adding the "club" element to it by adding turkey still may not warrant a pin or a print of a recipe. One could even go so far as to say adding the avocado still doesn't necessarily make it a blog-worthy sandwich. Add the chipotle mayo (which is insanely good) and we're gettin' somewhere but the icing on the cake, so to speak, is the egg. Yes, egg. There is a freakin' fried egg on this BLT! You may think it sounds strange or gross, but just TRY it. When I saw the recipe from From Away  on Pinterest I just knew I had to try it. I made it for dinner one night and my husband was making all kinds of happy sounds as he was eating it. It seems a little over the top for a sandwich, but when it's for dinner, it's OK that it's ginormous and barely fits in your mouth, right?

The first time I made it, I had forgotten to buy chipotles for the mayo. :( But we always have the Chipotle Tabasco in our house so I just mixed some mayo up with that and voila! The second time I made them, I made the chipotle mayo as stated in the recipe. It was delicious...but SPICY...and when I say it was spicy, I mean it. We both love heat but it was even almost a little too spicy for us...but it did have much more depth and better flavor than just the tabasco mixed in. The recipe as I'm writing it will still be spicy but not cause you to cough and choke to death. If you can really only tolerate a little bit of heat, then I would suggest doing the chipotle Tabasco option and you can control how spicy you make it.

Also, Erin and I were discussing the necessity of the cheese in this recipe. When there's so much else going on, do you even taste the cheese? Do you taste it enough to justify the added calories?

My thoughts on that is that it does add another level of flavor and probably cuts the heat a little bit from the chipotles. But, I do think if you have a strong feeling against the cheese (who has strong feelings AGAINST cheese?!), I don't think the sandwich will suffer much without it.

Now I really want one of these sandwiches...

~Leah

Club BLT with Avocado and Chipotle Mayo

Recipe Type: Sandwich

Author: Leah (adapted from From Away)

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 5 mins

Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup mayonnaise


• 1-2 canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce


• 3 slices sandwich bread, toasted


• baby spinach or Romaine lettuce


• 3 slices of deli turkey


• 1/2 tomato, thinly sliced


• 4 slices bacon, cooked


• 2 slices Swiss cheese


• 1/2 avocado, peeled, pitted, and sliced


• 1 fried egg, over-medium


• Chipotle Tabasco (optional, see notes)

Instructions

1. In a food processor, combine mayo and chipotle chiles. Process until smooth. Set aside.


2. Assemble in this order: Toast (with chipotle mayo), spinach or lettuce, one slice of turkey, half the tomato, half the bacon, one slice of the Swiss cheese. Spread some PLAIN mayo on a second slice of toast and put that on top, mayonnaise side down. Spread the top of the middle slice of bread with more PLAIN mayo. Top with more spinach or lettuce, the sliced avocado, two slices of turkey, more tomato, the other slice of cheese, the remaining bacon, and the fried egg. Top with the third slice of bread with the chipotle mayo side down.

Notes

This is my version of cutting back on the heat a little bit. If you want to use chipotle mayo wherever it calls for mayo, more power to ya. If you prefer less heat, only use it on one slice, or just add some Chipotle Tabasco to some mayo and make it to the heat you prefer.

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