If you are looking for a new recipe to serve for lunch, look no further! This egg salad recipe is the perfect salad to make an egg salad sandwich to take on your next picnic. With simple ingredients like eggs, mustard, and mayonnaise, you can make this recipe without thinking ahead!
I love simple recipes like this. As a young mom, keeping up with work, chores around the house, and keeping the family fed can be hectic. I use eggs a lot for breakfast, but finding this recipe has given my family and me a new way to enjoy the health benefits of eggs without the usual morning scrambled eggs.
Its versatility is another thing that makes this recipe great. If you don’t have bread, eat it with crackers. If you don’t have crackers, eat it with a fork. You can get creative and try different spices, too!
What Is Egg Salad?
What is egg salad? Just a lettuce salad with hard-boiled eggs on top? No, far from it. Egg salad is a delicious, creamy dish you will love, with its staple ingredients being hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, and spices.
Most egg sandwich recipes also have a fresh ingredient to give a bright bite. Most recipes have vegetables like celery or fruit like grapes. This fruit or vegetable offsets the heavy hard-boiled egg and creamy mayonnaise and sharp mustard.
Check out the recipe below for the easiest egg salad you will make!
About ingredients
The great thing about this egg salad recipe is that it uses ingredients that most people already have on hand—no extra trips to the store to make this egg salad. Of course, if you don’t have eggs, you will have to get those!
Pantry staples like mayonnaise, eggs, and mustard are the basics for this recipe, and the green onions add an extra bite of flavor. If you don’t have green onions on hand, you can use celery or even bell peppers.
To spice things up, you will need paprika, salt, and pepper. That’s it! You will be surprised how delicious these simple ingredients mixed together are! Check out the full list of ingredients and measurements below.
Grab these ingredients and be ready to make yourself an egg salad sandwich!
Egg Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 eggs
- ½ cups Mayonnaise
- ¼ cups Chopped green onion
- 1 teaspoon Yellow mustard
- ¼ teaspoons Paprika
- ½ teaspoons Salt
- ½ teaspoons Black pepper
Instructions
- Place the eggs in a large saucepan and cover them with cold water.
- Bring the water and egg mixture to a boil and immediately remove it from the heat. Cover the saucepan and allow the eggs to stand in the hot water for 10 to 12 minutes before removing them from the water.
- Let the eggs cool enough to handle. Peel off the egg shells and chop the eggs into small cubes.
- Place the egg cubes in a bowl and stir in mayonnaise, mustard, and green onions.
- Sprinkle in paprika, salt, and pepper. Stir until well combined.
- Your egg salad is complete! It can be eaten straight with a fork, as a dip for crackers, or as an egg salad sandwich. I like to toast some rye bread and spread the egg salad on the toast. This protein-packed lunch is simple and delicious!
- For a variation, try putting grapes instead of green onions; this gives a slightly sweet taste and a burst of freshness. A lot of egg salad recipes use celery, so it is a great option as well. If you use celery, try sprinkling in some celery seed for an extra kick of flavor.
Tips & Tricks for Egg Salad Recipe
The hardest thing about this recipe is peeling the hard-boiled eggs. This can be a frustrating process, and I live on a farm and love our fresh eggs. However, the fresher the eggs, the harder they are to peel.
I have tried many hacks trying to find the best way to peel a hard-boiled egg without ripping them apart. If you do rip them apart, the best thing about this recipe is that you can’t really tell because the eggs are all chopped up!
The hack I have found that works to peel hard-boiled eggs is shocking them in ice water after pulling them out of the hot water. The ice water stops the cooking process. The eggs need to be in the ice water for 2 to 3 minutes.
Gently tap the eggs on the counter to crack the shell and roll it to loosen. Begin by peeling the large end of the egg and work towards the smaller end. There is an air pocket on the larger end that allows you to get under the shell without ripping the egg white.
Continue this process until all of your eggs are peeled and ready to be chopped!
Nutrition Information of Egg Salad Recipe
This egg salad recipe is very healthy! It has four servings. Each serving provides you with only 244 calories! These nutritional facts will change if you eat it on bread or crackers. The egg salad itself is a great low-carb option.
Check out the nutritional facts below:
- Total Fat – 18.7 g
- Saturated Fat – 4.2 g
- Cholesterol – 335 mg
- Sodium – 638 mg
- Total Carbohydrates – 8.5 g
- Dietary Fiber – 0.3 g
- Total Sugars – 2.7 g
- Protein – 11.5 g
This egg salad also provides a high amount of Vitamin D. Check out the other vitamins and minerals this recipe has.
- Vitamin D – 31 mcg
- Calcium – 58 mg
- Iron – 2 mg
- Potassium – 146 mg
Conclusion
Grab some eggs and get ready for the best lunch of your life! I love this egg salad recipe because of its simplicity and versatility. Everyone in my family loves it, and I can make it in as little as 30 minutes.
I hope you enjoy this best egg salad recipe as much as my family and I do! For the next picnic we go on, I will make a basket full of egg salad sandwiches!
delicious and tender! everyone loved it, had to double the recipe!
Tasted amazing!
This is a good recipe, I added a few things personally but my dish turned out amazing and my hubby loved it!!