Everyone loves eggs. We commonly meet them at breakfast table either scrambled or fried. However, these are really mouth watering salad staples too. Egg salad recipes are possibly one of the best salads to make. Not only can it be served as is, but it could also be used as a sandwich filling.
Below you may find recipes assembled from different sources. You will wish to try 1 or 2 at home. Don’t worry if you don’t get to complete them, these salads can still make it to tomorrows sandwich. Now, enough said. Gab your things and let’s start whisking.
CHUNKY EGG SALAD
serves 4
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 Tablespoon cider vinegar
1 small spoon salt
1/4 cup minced onion
1/2 teaspoon Worchestershire sauce or
1 teaspoon of prepared mustard
1/4 little spoon ground white pepper
6 hard-cooked eggs
1 cup thin sliced celery
2 Tablespoons minced green pepper or red or green hamburger relish
sliced tomatoes or whole tomato
parsley for garnish
In a medium mayo and next 5 ingredients until well mixed. Cut eggs into chunks or dice, as you prefer. Add eggs, celery, add green pepper or relish to mayonnaise mix. Mix well. Cover and refrigerate till well chilled.
To Serve : Spoon mixture on tomato slices or into whole tomato. If using entire tomato, either cut off top and spoon out some of the middle, set on shredded lettuce and loosely fill with egg salad, or cut tomato into 8 wedges but do not cut all the way down, so that the tomato wedges will stay connected.
Garden Egg Salad Bowl
Makes 4 servings
6 tbsp. Mayonnaise
1 tsp. Prepared mustard
1/4 tsp. lemon pepper seasoning
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 cup frozen peas, thawed
1/2 cup thinly sliced cauliflower
1/2 cup sliced celery
1/2 cup quartered and sliced zucchini
2 tsp. dried chives
3 hard boiled eggs, coarsely chopped
Spinach leaves
Paprika
4 oz. cut julienne Swiss cheese
Tomato wedges
Pimiento-stuffed olives
In a mid sized bowl, stir together mayonnaise, mustard, lemon-pepper seasoning and salt. Stir in peas, cauliflower, mushrooms, celery, zucchini and chives. Gently stir in eggs.
Line salad bowls with spinach. Spoon in egg salad. Sprinkle with paprika. Garnish with Swiss cheese, tomato and olives.
Note: if needed, egg salad can be spooned into a tomato cup and placed on a bed of spinach.
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