Everybody loves eggs. We frequently meet them at breakfast table either scrambled or fried. However, these are essentially mouth watering salad staples as well. Egg salad recipes are doubtless one of the easiest salads to make. Not only can it be served as is, but it may also be used as a sandwich filling.
Below you will find recipes assembled from different sources. You may wish to try one or two at home. Don’t worry if you don’t get to close them, these salads can still make it to tomorrows sandwich. Now, alright. Gab your things and let’s start whisking.
CHUNKY EGG SALAD
serves 4
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 Big spoon cider vinegar
1 small spoon salt
1/4 cup minced onion
1/2 small spoon 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 Big spoons minced green pepper or red or green hamburger relish
sliced tomatoes or whole a medium bowl, stir mayonnaise 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 mixture. Mix well. Cover and cool until 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 four 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 cut cauliflower
1/2 cup cut celery
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup quartered and cut 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 medium bowl, stir together mayonnaise, mustard, lemon-pepper seasoning and salt. Whisk in peas, cauliflower, mushrooms, celery, zucchini and chives. Gently stir in eggs.
Line salad bowls with spinach. Spoon in egg salad. Spatter with paprika. Garnish with Swiss cheese, tomato and olives.
Note : If desired, egg salad can be spooned into a tomato cup and placed on a bed of spinach.
For more information about food and useful cooking tips, check out cooking101.org and also have a look at easy egg bake recipe.
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