Everybody loves eggs. We ordinarily meet them at breakfast table either scrambled or fried. However, these are actually tasty salad staples too. Egg salad recipes are possibly one of the best salads to make. Not only is it be served as is, but it could also be used as a sandwich filling.
Below you will find recipes assembled from different sources. You will wish to try one 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 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup minced onion
1/2 teaspoon Worchestershire sauce or
1 small spoon of prepared mustard
1/4 little spoon ground white pepper
6 hard-cooked eggs
1 cup thin sliced celery
2 Spoons minced green pepper or red or green hamburger relish
sliced tomatoes or whole tomato
parsley for garnish
In a medium bowl, stir mayonnaise and next 5 ingredients till well mixed. Cut eggs into chunks or dice, as you favor. 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 full 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 eight wedges but don’t 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 sliced cauliflower
1/2 cup cut mushrooms
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup quartered and chopped zucchini
2 tsp. dried chives
3 hard boiled eggs, roughly chopped
Spinach leaves
Paprika
4 oz. Cut julienne Swiss cheese
Tomato wedges
Pimiento-stuffed olives
In a mid sized bowl, stir together mayo, mustard, lemon-pepper seasoning and salt. Stir in peas, cauliflower, mushrooms, celery, zucchini and chives. Gradually mix in eggs.
Line salad bowls with spinach. Spoon in egg salad. Spatter with paprika. Garnish with Swiss cheese, tomato and olives.
Note : if required, egg salad can be spooned into a tomato cup and placed on a bed of spinach.
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