Egg Salad

Perfect Egg Salad is a classic lunch favorite, creamy and delicious with just a handful of staple ingredients.  Most importantly, it starts with perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs.  In just 20 minutes, meal prep a batch for easy weekday lunches like sandwiches or deli wraps, or a healthy snack dip with crackers!

Hard Boiling Eggs

Perfect egg salad is as easy as perfectly cooking the eggs.  Hard boiled eggs should be two colors and two colors only, yellow and white….not grey, not green, not black….yellow and white.  Sounds elementary enough, but I have to admit that at my first cooking job after culinary school at The Pump Room in Chicago, I was not so sure of myself.

My chef was running through quite a lengthy list of what he wanted me to get prepped that day, one being a dozen hard boiled eggs for quite an elegant chopped salad.  Glaring down at me he says, “you do know how to hard boil an egg don’t you?”  Of course, I squeaked out a yes and then escaped to the bathroom to call my mom to get her foolproof method.  Perfectly cooked eggs is what he got, here is my mom’s secret…

• Place eggs in a pot covering them with cold water by about an inch.  Bring to a boil over high heat.  Right when they reach a boil, turn off the heat and cover.  Let them sit in the hot water for 15 minutes (time it!).  Run under cold water, crack and peel.

I know there are a lot of methods that work, this is by no means the only one, just don’t start boiling the eggs and forget about them, use a timer!

Other Favorite Lunches

• Classic Chicken Salad
• Curry Chicken Salad
• The Summer Lunch
• Favorite Kid’s Lunches

Egg Salad

Meryl Downing

Perfect Egg Salad starts with perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs. Prep it on Sunday for easy weekday lunches, or a great snack dip with crackers.

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Total Time 20 mins

Course Lunch

Cuisine American

Servings 3

Ingredients

  

• 6 eggs
• 1 rib celery chopped
• ¼ red or white onion chopped
• ¼ t kosher salt
• 6 grinds fresh black pepper
• ½ t paprika
• ⅛ t cayenne pepper
• 1 t Worcestershire sauce
• 1 t lemon juice
• 1 t dijon
• ¼ c mayonnaise

Instructions

 

• Place eggs in a pot covering them with cold water by about an inch.  Bring to a boil over high heat.  Right when they reach a boil, turn off the heat and cover.  Let them sit in the hot water for 15 minutes.  Run under cold water, crack and peel.
• Meanwhile, mix all other ingredients in a bowl, roughly chop the eggs, add, mix, and serve.

Keyword Easy Lunch, Egg Salad