Egg Salad and How to Boil An Egg

EGG SALAD

Egg Salad is a frugal meal and one packed with protein and low in carbs if eaten as just a salad.

This is a basic classic Egg Salad recipe.  Many people omit the celery as they do not prefer the mixture of textures. (The crunch of the celery against the smooth salad.)  Other recipes mix the yolks with the mayonnaise to make more of a sauce before mixing it into the rest of the salad.  I choose to roughly chop the eggs, as they will break down further when all is put together.

Prefectly Hard Boiled Egg

Now, the best tip to offer:  How to make a perfect hard-boiled egg.  You want the yolk to be just cooked and with no green ring around the edge of the yolk.  Place eggs in regular tap water that is room temperature. Place on high heat and bring to a boil. After the water boils turn off the heat and let it sit on the burner.  Prefect every time! 

8 Hard-boiled eggs

½ cup or less Mayonnaise

¼ Cup celery minced

1 Tablespoon minced onion

1 Tablespoon minced parsley

1 Teaspoon Dijon Mustard

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

1/8 teaspoon salt

Good squirt Hot Sauce of choice

Chop hard –boiled eggs roughly and place in bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients.  Stir to incorporate all.

TIPS:

·        Make sandwiches with watercress, lettuce, tomatoes, red or green peppers and carrots etc.

·        Add grapes halved to make it a bit more elegant.

·        Add nuts, apple cubed, olives, capers or pickles to change things up.

·        Add bacon and horseradish!

·        Sliced smoked salmon filled with the salad and rolled is fun as well.

·        Fill hollowed out tomatoes.

·        Change the herbs/spices: lemon, lime, dill, chives, paprika or curry.

·        Make sandwich and cut crusts off and quarter for individual tea sandwiches.

·        Lighten the salad by using Greek Yogurt instead of the Mayonnaise.

As always be your own Creative Dump Cook and change this recipe to what YOU have on hand!