Fried Green Tomato Blt With Basil Mayo - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups loosely packed basil
1 1/4 cups mayonnaise
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
18 slices bacon
6 big green tomatoes, sliced into 18 slices
1 cup flour
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
1 egg, beaten
oil, for shallow frying
sliced red and yellow tomatoes
1 1/2 cups sliced arugula
12 slices good bread

Preparation

For the basil mayonnaise, puree the basil, 1/4 cup of the mayo, lemon juice and mustard in a blend until smnooth. Stir in the rest of the mayo. Refrigerate until needed.
Fry the bacon and drain.
Put half the flour on a plate or waxed paper. Combine the other half of the flour, all the cornmeal, and salt and pepper to taste. Arrange the flour, egg and cornmeal mixture in a row on a work surface. Dip each green tomato slice in flour, then egg, then cornmeal mixture, coating thickly. Pat the coating on. Fry in hot oil 2 minutes per side. Drain.
Make sandwiches by spreading bread with mayonnaise, then stacking green tomato, bacon, sliced tomato alternately. Top with arugula.