Egg Salad Surprises
Everyone loves eggs. We commonly meet them at breakfast table either scrambled or fried. However, these are really mouth watering salad staples as well. Egg salad recipes are potentially 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 will find recipes assembled from different sources. You will wish to try one or 2 at home. Don’t worry if you do not get to finish 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 little spoon salt
1/4 cup minced onion
1/2 small spoon Worchestershire sauce or
1 small spoon of prepared mustard
1/4 teaspoon 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 a medium bowl, stir mayonnaise and next five ingredients till well mixed. Cut eggs into chunks or dice, as you like. Add eggs, celery, add green pepper or relish to mayonnaise mixture. 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 don’t cut all the way down, so 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 sliced celery
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup quartered and sliced 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 medium bowl, stir together mayo, mustard, lemon-pepper seasoning and salt. Stir in peas, cauliflower, mushrooms, celery, zucchini and chives. Delicately mix in eggs.
Line salad bowls with spinach. Spoon in egg salad. Sprinkle 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 easy to make recipes, visit cooking101.org and also read about devil egg.
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