BLTs With Blue Cheese-Buffalo Aioli

Ingredients

• 4 leaves bibb lettuce 
• 0.3 cup cheese blue crumbled
• 1 small clove garlic grated
• 2 tablespoons hot sauce (such as Frank's or Pete's)
• 0.5 cup mayonnaise 
• 4 servings pepper freshly ground
• 1  onion red thinly sliced
• 8.5 inch cocktail rye bread white country-style lightly toasted
• 16 strips bacon thick-cut cooked cut in half
• 3 large tomatoes thinly sliced

Equipment

• bowl
• cutting board

Directions

1. Combine the mayonnaise, blue cheese, hot sauce, garlic, and pepper to taste in a small bowl and stir well.
2. Lay 4 slices of bread on a cutting board.
3. Spread 2 to 3 teaspoons or so of the aioli on each slice, then top each with 8 half-pieces of bacon, a few slices of tomato, some red onion and a single piece of lettuce. Top each with another slice of bread. Slice the sandwiches in half. Photograph by Kang Kim