One of my favorite sandwiches is a BLT, but this has a little twist adding avocado and green onions, making it taste AMAZING! Parmesan cheese would be great on this too. To lighten this up a bit we used turkey bacon and 2% milk in the dressing.
BLT Salad with Homemade Buttermilk Dressing
1 head lettuce, Green Leaf or Romaine
Homemade Croutons (recipe below)
1/2 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
1 avocado, seeded and diced (avocado tutorial)
3 green onions, chopped
Buttermilk Dressing (recipe below)
Top salad with all ingredients and toss gently.
Buttermilk Dressing
2/3 cup buttermilk (substitution below)
6 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons fresh chives, chopped (dried chives 1 teaspoon)
kosher salt
fresh ground pepper
Whisk ingredients together and season with salt and pepper.
Homemade Croutons
leftover bread, cut into cubes (baguette)
olive oil
kosher salt
fresh ground pepper
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Toss bread cubes with oil, salt and pepper on a baking sheet. Bake for 5 minutes until golden. Cool.
No buttermilk? Add 2 teaspoons lemon juice or white vinegar to 2/3 cup milk, let sit 15 minutes.
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I had a BLT salad at a little restaurant in Galena Ill. It was soooooo good really, I would almost make the 3 hour trip just for that, it was loaded with bacon. This sounds so good right now, maybe its the baby, lol. But really who doesn’t love bacon? Thanks for the recipe.
I am going to try the homemade croutons soon. I just bought a bag, just my luck, lol. Thank you for the receipe.