Egg Salad

Name: Egg Salad
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 8 unit eggs (hard-boiled per the catalog's entry, peeled); ⅓ cup mayonnaise; 2 tsp mustard (Dijon); 1 unit lemon (juice); 2 tbsp chives (minced); 1 unit celery (fine dice — the optional crunch faction's win); ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp black pepper

Vegetables & Salads · American

8 ingredients · 30 minutes · 2 servings

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543kcal26.1g protein46.5g fat3.3g carbs~$1.78/ serving*

Contains egg · sometimes contains soy — check the label · only in an optional ingredient: gluten

Restrictions

ContainseggIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Sometimes contains — check the labelsoy (Mayonnaise)Some brands have it, some do not. The recipe cannot tell, so this is the one you check yourself.

Only if you add itgluten (bread)Leave that ingredient out and the dish does not have it.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

8 unit	eggs (hard-boiled per the catalog's entry, peeled)
⅓ cup	mayonnaise
2 tsp	mustard (Dijon)
1 unit	lemon (juice)
2 tbsp	chives (minced)
1 unit	celery (fine dice — the optional crunch faction's win)
½ tsp	salt
¼ tsp	black pepper

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

¼ tsp	paprika (dusted over, deviled-egg style)
4 slice	bread (good, toasted) or lettuce cups

Steps

Whisk3 min
the yolk trick: 2 yolks into the dressing first
two of the eight yolks mashed smooth into the mayo + Dijon + lemon + salt + pepper — the borrowed deviled-egg move that publishes: the dressing turns golden, custardy, and unmistakably eggier, which is the difference between egg salad and mayonnaise with eggs in it
Chop4 min
the rest: chopped rough, never mashed
remaining eggs into irregular half-inch pieces — a knife on a board, not a fork in the bowl; the varied pieces are the whole texture of the dish, and mashing produces the gray paste of a thousand sad deli cases
Fold3 min
eggs + celery + chives through the dressing, barely
folded until just coated — then thirty minutes cold if time allows, where it settles from freshly-mixed into itself; keeps three days, and the paprika dust on serving is a five-second upgrade with a fifty-year pedigree