BLT With Avocado and Jalapeno Sauce

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By Jim Shahin

It’s hard to amended connected the classical BLT, but this recipe's piquant jalapeño condiment takes it up a notch. If you're intrepid capable to marque the bacon (see related recipe), it's adjacent much special.

The vigor of jalapeños tin vary, truthful it’s champion to sensation a spot of it earlier adding the afloat magnitude called for here. The optional avocado adds a creamy constituent to the sandwich.

You volition person leftover sauce, which tin beryllium utilized arsenic a dressing successful murphy crockery oregon a greenish salad.

Serve with murphy chips and a pickle.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2 (makes 2 sandwiches)

For the sauce

Scant 1/4 cupful regular oregon low-fat sour cream
1 tablespoonful regular oregon low-fat mayonnaise
1/2 mean jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced (1 tablespoon; spot headnote)
1 spoon caller lime juice
1 tablespoonful finely chopped caller cilantro leaves
1/4 spoon minced garlic
1/4 spoon good salt

For the sandwich

4 slices bladed bacon, preferably homemade (see related recipes)
4 slices sandwich bread, toasted
4 slices ripe tomato, oregon capable to screen the bacon
6 bladed slices avocado (optional; spot headnote)
4 leaves iceberg oregon romaine lettuce

Nutritional Facts

Per sandwich, utilizing low-fat mayonnaise and sour cream

Calories
228
Fat
8 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
31 g
Sodium
704 mg
Cholesterol
15 mg
Protein
11 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Andy Sikkenga.

Published April 14, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026