EGG BLT SANDWICH RECIPES

Steps:

• Using a 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter, cut a hole from the center of 4 bread slices. Discard bread rounds or reserve for another use. Heat a large skillet over medium. Add bacon; cook 6 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high; cook 2 minutes or until crisp. Place bacon on a paper towel-lined plate. Pour bacon drippings into a bowl and reserve. Combine avocado, mayonnaise, and salt in a small bowl; mash to combine. Stir in bacon. Add half of reserved bacon drippings to pan over medium-high. Place 2 cut bread slices in skillet; break 1 egg into each hole. Sprinkle 1/8 teaspoon pepper on each egg. Cook 2 minutes or until eggs begin to set. Carefully turn bread; cook 2 minutes or until eggs are set. Remove from pan. Repeat procedure with remaining half of bacon drippings, cut bread slices, eggs, and pepper. Spread avocado mixture evenly over 4 uncut bread slices. Top each with 2 lettuce leaves, 2 tomato slices, and 1 egg-in-a-nest bread slice.

Steps:

• Halve, seed, and peel avocado. Place one avocado half in a small bowl; mash with a fork or the back of a wooden spoon. Stir in mayonnaise, lemon juice, and garlic. Thinly slice the remaining avocado half. Set aside.
• In a large skillet melt butter over medium heat. (Or coat a large skillet with cooking spray.) Break eggs into skillet. If desired, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low; cook eggs for 3 to 4 minutes or until whites are completely set and yolks start to thicken.
• For fried eggs over easy or over hard, when the whites are completely set and the yolks start to thicken, turn the eggs and cook for 30 seconds more (over easy) or 1 minute more (over hard).
• Layer four of the bread slices with cheese (if using), avocado slices, bacon, and fried eggs. Spread the remaining four bread slices with mayonnaise mixture; place on sandwiches, spread sides down.