BLT Lettuce Wraps Summer Rolls with Avocado {Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free} (2024)

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The classic BLT reconstructed and offered in new form — BLT Lettuce Wraps with Avocado wrapped up in rice paper wrappers for easy eating. Low Carb – NO bread needed! – these are made with only six ingredients and 30 minutes and make for the perfect appetizer, lunch or light dinner. No bread to distract you from the full flavors of the real stars in the standard sandwich. Low carb, paleo, dairy free and gluten free.

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Summer roll recipe? YES! Lately I’ve been on a serious summer roll recipe kick. It’s what I’ve been craving and making several times in the past month.

It must be the lack of fall here in Costa Rica. Instead of golden and red colored leaves floating through the sky and cold breezes it’s been hot sunlight and scorching temperatures.

It’s no wonder I’m not dying for my baked pork chopsor roasted cauliflower soup at this time of year.

Instead I want cold no cook meals. Something light and crisp.

A Summer rollrecipe is perfect for the occasion. Over the years I’ve made all sorts of appetizer “roll” style recipes – my current favorites being my avocado and vegan summer rolls,vegan zucchini rolls, and turkey avocado rolls.

Now I wanted bacon though. Surprisingly whenever I travel internationally I crave BLTs. This happened the first time back in 2013 when D and I spent 9 months backpacking around Asia. One week it just hit me. I didn’t want Thai curries and noodles, I just wanted a proper well made BLT sandwich.

It sounds super simple, but when you’re in Asia it can be fairly difficult to find some western favorites sometimes.

I found a spot though. A small expat owned cafe in Chiang Mai, a city in Northern Thailand. They had a simple and delicious BLT. Well toasted bread, crunchy bacon, juicy tomatoes, refreshing lettuce and a light spread of mayo. For $2 it was perfect.

And the only thing I ate for a solid 2 or 3 days.

Sometimes you just have to give your body what it wants.

Here in Costa Rica that BLT urge came rolling by again. This time instead of bread I wanted to try making a BLT summer roll recipe, with avocado of course. Think BLT lettuce wraps.

Who needs the bread anyway? It’s just a filler that dilutes the full flavor or the rest of the ingredients, if you ask me. We’re all just really trying to get more of key ingredients – bacon, avocado, lettuce and tomatoes. I mostly just need a convenient way to package all of these ingredients together and rice paper wrappers serve their purpose well in this situation.

With these BLT lettuce wraps you just have to cook the bacon, chop the other ingredients, wet the rice paper and roll everything up. The rice paper allows for easy eating of these BLT lettuce wraps — it holds everything compactly together – as opposed to lettuce and the ingredients falling apart.

I didn’t tuck the ends of wrappers in for a bit of a messy free form look. This also cuts out some prep time so that’s always nicely appreciated.

For this summer roll recipe you just need six ingredients – bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, mayonnaise and rice paper wrappers.

Simple, to the point, and delicious. Crunchy bacon, smooth and creamy avocado and mayo, juicy tomatoes and refreshing lettuce, all wrapped up in silky soft rice paper rolls.

With these BLT lettuce wraps recipe you really get the full flavor of the most important ingredients.

How to make BLT lettuce wraps with avocado:

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BLT Lettuce Wraps with Avocado {GF, DF}

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

25 mins