Try a spicy egg salad recipe for a flavorful twist on a traditional boring, bland egg salad. Most egg salads are a snooze fest, but sauteing up a little onion, pepper, and spices will put a little zing in your thing, and added nuts will give your egg salad a sorely needed crunch.
Spicy Egg Salad Recipe Ingredients
8 BOILED EGGS [link to Best Way to Boil Eggs ]
3-5 cloves GARLIC finely chopped
chopped HOT PEPPER as desired (I generally use a whole jalapeno pepper with the ribs and seeds removed)
2 tsp GINGER minced
½ to 1 cup CASHEWS (or if nuts ain’t your thang, sub some chopped celery)
1 small RED ONION chopped
¼ cup MAYONNAISE
½ cup chopped CILANTRO
½ cup chopped PARSLEY
10-12 CHERRY TOMATOES cut into quarters
LEMON zest and juice
1 tsp CHILI POWDER
1 Tbsp PAPRIKA
1 tsp TURMERIC
SALT and PEPPER to taste
OIL for sauteing
How to Make This Egg Salad Recipe
The key to any egg salad are the eggs; you don’t want overdone boiled eggs that are dried out with that tell-tell greenish tint. But no fear! Fool proof boiled eggs are super easy to prepare.
HOW TO MAKE PERFECT HARD BOILED EGGS:
- In a pot, cover the eggs with cold water.
- Cover and bring the pot to a boil.
- Once boiling, remove the pot from the heat and allow the eggs to sit in the hot water for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, transfer the eggs to an ice water bath.
- Peel eggs when cooled.
- In a skillet, heat a little oil on medium high heat.
- Add in the garlic and hot peppers and cook for 1 minute then
- add in the onion and ginger and continue cooking until onions begin to soften.
- Stir in the spices and then the cashews. Substitute peanuts if you prefer, or if you’re not into nuts, add chopped celery; a little crunchiness makes for a more interesting egg salad dish.
- Saute ingredients for 2-3 more minutes, then set skillet aside to cool.
- In a bowl, combine the peeled eggs and mayonnaise and mash into a lumpy mixture.
- Add in the cooled ingredients from the skillet, and mix well.
- Add lemon juice and zest, and stir in some fresh herbs, like parsley, cilantro, or dill.
- And finally, stir in some quartered cherry tomatoes; cherry tomatoes are best because the tomato skin will help keep them from falling apart.
And that’s it!–serve warm or cold, all by itself or as a salad or bread topping or a hearty egg salad sandwich.
Give this spicy egg salad recipe a try and let me know what you think, and bon appétit!
And for another tasty salad idea, try this Southwestern Quinoa Salad Recipe.
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–Chef Buck
