Smoked Salmon Club Sandwich

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 16 slices grain bread
• 16 slices bacon, halved crosswise (turkey bacon is fine)
• 2 red onions, cut into small dice
• 2 medium tomatoes, cut into 1/4 dice
• 6 sprigs cilantro, roughly chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 16 mint leaves
• 2 jalapeno peppers, cut into small dice or
• 1/2 green bell pepper, cut into small dice
• 4 avocados, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
• 4 limes, juice of, preferably limes not lemons
• 8 slices smoked salmon (thin slices)
• 2 slices smoked salmon (cut into 16 strips crosswise and rolled into rosettes, garnish)
• salt, to taste
• freshly ground coarse black pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 250°f.
• 2 toast the bread slices and let cool.
• 3 roast the bacon in oven until crisp.
• 4 chop red onion, tomato, cilantro, garlic, mint leaves and jalapeno peppers (if using)or green bell peppers - finely chopped.
• 5 put it all into a bowl.
• 6 add the avocado and pour in lime juice.
• 7 toss the avocado mixture and season well with salt and pepper.
• 8 place 1 tablespoon avocado mixture on each slice of smoked salmon.
• 9 fold the smoked salmon into a square, so that the avocado is wrapped in the center.
• 10 place the smoked salmon and bacon between two slices of bread.
• 11 cut the sandwich diagonally.
• 12 place a rosette on top of each half and place 2 pieces of bacon on top of the rosette.