BLT Salad

Name: BLT Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 12 ounces ripe, tomatoes, cored and cut into 1-inch pieces; 1 teaspoon, table salt, divided; ½ teaspoon, pepper, divided; 8 slices, bacon, cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces; 4 ounces, ciabatta bread, torn into ½-inch pieces (3 cups); 3 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tablespoons, mayonnaise; 1 tablespoon, red wine vinegar; 2 teaspoons, Dijon mustard; 1 , garlic clove, minced; 2 , romaine lettuce hearts (12 ounces), cut into 1-inch pieces; ½ cup, fresh basil leaves, torn

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2021, Cook's Country TV

Summer dining calls for reimagining a favorite sandwich as a main-course salad.

SERVES4

TIME40 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To ensure that we didn't have a watery salad, we started by cutting ripe tomatoes into chunks and tossing them with salt and pepper in a bowl. We then set them aside while preparing the other ingredients. We decided to double down on the ba...

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