BLT Lettuce Wraps

Name: BLT Lettuce Wraps
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Ingredients: 4 slices of bacon (preferably applewood smoked); 1 small tomato (sliced thin); 2 whole romaine leaves; 2 tablespoons mayonaise; salt and pepper to taste

The BLT is the perfect end-of-summer meal.

Tomatoes are at their best, and something about the heat and humidity of the Arizona monsoon season makes me almost totally inert and immobile. This is about all I can muster dinner-wise, so I’m lucky that it’s fairly healthy… It turns out that mayo and bacon are better for us than expected, and my versions is also low-carb.

BLT Lettuce wrap with bacon, romaine and mayo

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

BLT Lettuce Wraps

Servings: person

Cost: $2.00

I prefer to ditch the bread in my BLT because it really just gets in the way (which might be why it's not called a BBLT). Instead, I make mine "protein style" served stuffed in the hollow of a big piece of romaine lettuce for more of the stuff that I really want.

Ingredients

4 slices of bacon preferably applewood smoked
1 small tomato sliced thin
2 whole romaine leaves
2 tablespoons mayonaise
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Spread each lettuce leaf with a generous portion of mayo.
Sprinkle with salt & pepper
Top with two strips of bacon, then a layer of sliced tomatoes, and two more slices of bacon. Enjoy!
Here's the vegetarian version that I make for my husband.