Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Salad with Avocado and Poached Egg
There are times when simple is best. This salad is an example of one of those times. The BLT, Bacon Lettuce Tomato, combination is a fantastic sandwich…one of the best! Combining the sandwich ingredients and adding fresh avocado and a poached egg and serving it in salad form? Well, let me tell you what…
It was delicious! That’s what. I didn’t even use a salad dressing on mine. I simply broke the yolk of the two poached eggs and let that liquid gold serve as all the dressing I needed.
Mr. Saucy, being the condiment fan that he is, put blue cheese dressing on his salad. I could imagine that a very light vinaigrette would work nicely too, if you must have dressing.
I really wanted a simple dinner for us…and I really wanted an open-face BLT with a poached egg on top. Then, I discovered that I didn’t have a crumb of bread in my pantry. So, instead of a sandwich, a salad was born.
Like I said when I posted about egg poaching, since I discovered this simple, fool-proof poaching method, I’ve been adding poached eggs to so many things! It’s so easy! As a matter of fact, as Mr. Saucy watched me create a vortex in the poaching water and drop an egg into it, I was commenting on it again…and dancing with joy in front of the stove. If you haven’t already tried this method, and you love poached eggs as much as I do, you really need to do so. It’s just the berries!
You don’t need a recipe for this salad. Just take some fresh salad greens (I used crispy, cold romaine), slice a tomato, crisp up some bacon, slice an avocado and poach some eggs. I added a bit of kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper. That was it.
Dinner was ready in about 20 minutes or less. Simple, summery, delicious.
Since I had BLT on the mind, I was giggling about the acronyms you could make for this salad. For instance: BLEATS: in verb form bleat is a whining cry. Or: TABLES…which made me laugh myself silly for some reason. So, no bleats allowed…get this salad on your tables. You’ll be happy you did!
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I’ve entered this salad in Summer Salad Sundays…head over there to check out some other wonderful salad ideas!
Yum, a BLT salad! This looks so good, and love that you added the avocado and poached egg. Perfect! Thanks for sharing with Summer Salad Sunday!
I have chosen to feature your salad this week! I have tweeted it, pinned it and shared it on my Facebook page. It will be featured on Summer Salad Sundays this coming Sunday. Thanks for linking up and I hope to see you again soon!
Oh, thank you so much! 🙂 I’ve been away from the internets on vacation and have just now seen this post. I’ll spread the word. P~