Recipe: Badass BLT Pizza

Holy shit, this was an incredible experiment! How do you take the awesome BLT sandwich and jam it into a pizza shape? I checked the internet, and it looked like there were plenty of pizzas that were "cheese" with bacon, tomato, and lettuce thrown on top. Bah, that's not what I wanted.

I WANTED A BLT ON A PIZZA CRUST!

Apparently, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself...

None of the pictures of "BLT Pizza" on the internet was exactly what I made. The tomatoes used in this pic are cut-in-half grape tomatoes. Whatever.

Badass BLT Pizza (you can also say "Badass BLT Flatbread" - it's ok)
...each pizza serves 4

INGREDIENTS (per pizza)

• 1 pizza crust (from the acclaimed Pizza Pizza recipe)
• 1/2 Cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 Cup sour cream
• 1/2 lb bacon
• 3 plum tomatoes
• 1 small head of Romaine lettuce
• Salt & pepper
• Sliced avocados (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut the bacon into 1/2 inch pieces, and cook in a pan until slightly crispy. The bacon will not be cooked any further, so make it how you like it. Drain bacon on a paper towel lined plate and set aside
2. Cut the tomato flesh into a medium dice
1. Cut each side (the "cheek") off each tomato. There are four sides per tomato
2. Discard the middles (the "core") with the jelly and the seeds
3. Scoop-out the seeds and jelly from each tomato cheek
4. You are left with 12 clean tomato sides to work with. This is the easiest way to dice tomato and keep things presentable
3. Shred the lettuce into thin ribbons
4. Mix the sour cream and mayonnaise into a bowl. Add salt & pepper to taste. This is the sauce
5. Stretch the pizza dough onto a pizza pan and drizzle with a little olive oil. In a 450 degree oven, cook a pizza crust for ~10 minutes, or until slightly crispy. NOTE: it's easy to overcook a pizza crust with no toppings, so watch carefully.
6. Remove the pizza crust from the oven, slather-on the "sauce" (sour cream and mayo)
7. Sprinkle-on the cooked bacon, tomatoes, and lettuce
8. Using a pizza wheel, cut into 8 equal wedges, and stand back - people are liable to get a little crazy
9. Top with sliced avocado, if you like
10. BOOM, you are a hero of bacon

FAQs

• Slicing avocado is hard. Do you have a secret method? >> Yes, I do:
• Using a sharp knife, cut each avocado in half. The seed will remain in one of the halves
• Hold the seeded half in one hand, and with the other hand, chop lightly into the seed with your big-ass chef's knife. The knife should now be slightly embedded into the seed.
• Twist the knife and seed, which will remove the seed.
• Pinch the seed off the knife from the back of the knife. The seed will pop-off the blade, and you should still have all the fingers you began with.
• Using a "soup spoon" (that's the spoon in your drawer that is larger than a "tea spoon"), carve between the peel and the flesh, dislodging the flesh from the leathery peel
• Pop the flesh onto the cutting board, upside down
• The avocado is now ready for slicing - don't fuck it up, it's perfect now
• Romaine lettuce? Can I use something else? >> You can do whatever you want, but the romaine lettuce is darker green and looks awesome. Iceberg lettuce would look washed-out and sickly. And you don't want to eat a pizza that looks sickly...