BLT Bites

BLT Bites are mini bacon, lettuce and tomato nibbles with a dill mayonnaise. Using the oven to bake the bacon is an easy hands off cooking method. Prep all the ingredients at once to make assembling the BLT Bites a breeze.

Entertaining can be stressful. To make holiday parties less hectic, have a go-to appetizer in your recipe repertoire.  BLT Bites are easy to make, fun to eat, and great tasting.  They will be a hit at any Christmas or New Year’s party this holiday season.

It can be a daunting task to think of an appetizer to make for a party at your own home or at a family or friends’ house. With long holiday to do lists, spending hours in the kitchen preparing hors d’oeurves is just not in the cards.  A perfect appetizer is easy to eat, beautiful to look at, delicious, and relatively simple to make.

BLT Bites are mini bacon, lettuce and tomato nibbles skewered on toothpicks. The local grocery store will have all the every day ingredients to make this recipe.

Tips for making BLT Bites

Prepping the ingredients all at once makes assembling the BLT Bites a breeze. Keep the mess at a minimum by cooking the bacon in the oven on a foil lined baking sheet.  To make it easy to skewer the bacon on the toothpick, bake it until just cooked but, still a little soft.  If it is too crisp, it will crumble.

Cutting out the bread rounds, stirring together the dill spiked mayonnaise, tearing the lettuce leaves, and slicing the tomatoes is the only prep work. Have an assembly line of the prepped ingredients so that building the mini sandwiches on sturdy toothpicks is super simple.

Large white platters are ideal backgrounds for the festive red and green BLT Bites. There is no need for plates, forks or knives for these handheld morsels.  Just cocktail napkins will do.

With an easy to prepare yet original appetizer like BLT Bites, you will be spending more time enjoying the holidays and less time in the kitchen.

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BLT Bites

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• Author: amycaseycooks
• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 13 minutes
• Total Time: 33 minutes
• Yield: 24 1x

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BLT Bites are mini bacon, lettuce and tomato nibbles with a dill mayonnaise. Using the oven to bake the bacon is an easy hands off cooking method. Prep all the ingredients at once to make assembling the BLT Bites a breeze.

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Ingredients

• 1 pound of bacon
• 1/3 cup mayonnaise
• ½ teaspoon dried dill
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• 6 – 7 slices of thin white bread
• 1 head of Boston Bibb lettuce
• 6 – 8 small tomatoes (such as plum or Campari)
• 24 sturdy toothpicks

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cut each slice of bacon into 3 pieces. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with foil. Place bacon pieces on the sheet. Bake for about 10 – 13 minutes. Watch the bacon closely towards the end of the baking time. The bacon should be just cooked but, still slightly soft. Remove the bacon from the oven to a paper towel lined plate. The bacon will crisp up a little more while it cools.
3. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, dill, onion powder, and garlic powder. Set aside.
4. Cut 2-inch rounds out of each slice of bread. There should be about 24 to 28 rounds. Set aside.
5. Tear the lettuce leaves into about 2 inch by 2 inch pieces. You will need about 24 – 28 pieces of lettuce. Set aside.
6. Slice the tomatoes into about ½ inch slices and lay on a paper towel. You will need about 24 to 28 slices. Set aside.
7. To assemble the BLT Bites, spread about ½ teaspoon of the dill mayonnaise on one side of a bread round. Skewer the round on a toothpick with the mayonnaise side up. Slide a piece of the lettuce, a slice of tomato and a piece of bacon on the toothpick. Place on a large serving platter. Continue assembling the remainder of the BLT Bites in the same way.
8. The BLT Bites can be made up to 1 hour in advance. Store covered in the refrigerator until they are served.

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• Category: Appetizer
• Method: Oven
• Cuisine: American

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1
• Calories: 85
• Sugar: 1.2 g
• Sodium: 137 mg
• Fat: 6.9 g
• Saturated Fat: 2.1 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 0 g
• Trans Fat: 0 g
• Carbohydrates: 3.7 g
• Fiber: .5 g
• Protein: 2.4 g
• Cholesterol: 10 mg

Keywords: blt, bacon cooked in oven