Ready for an easy egg salad sandwich? Our egg salad recipe uses hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, onions, and a pinch of curry powder for the perfect sandwich.
In this recipe
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Prepare an egg salad sandwich
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Egg Salad Tips
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Egg Salad Add-ins
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Avoid a wet sandwich
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Peel and cut eggs
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An egg salad sandwich is one of the easiest sandwiches in the world to make, especially if you already have hard-boiled eggs. It’s also a great way to use up leftover eggs after Easter.
How do you make an egg salad sandwich? Just chop up some hard-boiled eggs, add a little chopped celery for the crunch, some scallions or chives for the green factor, a pinch of salt and pepper for seasoning, and a spoonful of mayonnaise to tie it all together. Simply!
For easy-peel eggs, try steaming
Have you ever peeled hard boiled eggs for egg salad sandwiches? Try steaming them up!
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How to steam hard boiled eggs
Tips for the best egg salad
- Add a dash of curry powder. There’s one more ingredient that will spice up your simple egg salad, and that’s a dash of yellow curry powder. The curry powder not only gives your egg salad sandwich a gentle spiciness, it also adds a little extra color.
- Mayo or not mayo? You can substitute some ripe avocado for the mayonnaise in an egg salad sandwich; If you do that, you’ll need to add some vinegar or lemon juice for an acidic component, and add more salt than you’d expect. Personally, I prefer my egg salad sandwich with a hefty helping of mayonnaise. However, the amount of mayonnaise is purely a matter of taste.
Since we first posted this recipe, so many of you have engaged with your favorite versions of egg salad. Here are some great ideas for add-ins.
- Chopped peppers
- Pickles or cucumber relish
- Smoked Peppers
- Chopped green or Kalamata olives
- horseradish
- capers
- Chopped cooked bacon
How to avoid a soggy egg salad sandwich
The best way to avoid a soggy egg salad sandwich? Make your sandwich by placing a piece of lettuce on the toast, adding the egg salad, putting another piece of lettuce on top and placing the bread on top. The salad prevents the bread from absorbing liquid from the egg salad.
The egg salad filling can also be made up to a day in advance and kept refrigerated. Wait until just before eating to assemble your sandwich.
Peel and slice eggs for egg salad
Shell the hard-boiled eggs by gently tapping them several times on a clean counter or cutting board, cracking them all over. Then carefully peel the shells off the eggs. If the shells are stubborn or stuck to the eggs, try peeling them under running water. Some eggs peel easily while others can be frustrating. Here’s how (FYI, the older the eggs, the easier they’ll peel once they’re hard-boiled).
Use any of these kitchen gadgets to quickly slice or mash them to make egg salad.
- Egg slicer – then cut one way and then the other
- potato masher
- pastry cutter
- whisk
More egg salad recipes
- Deviled Egg Salad
- Curry egg salad with mango chutney
- Tarragon Egg Salad
From the editors of Simply Recipes
Quick and easy egg salad sandwich
This recipe makes enough egg salad for a sandwich. If you’re making more than one sandwich, you can easily scale up this recipe.
To easily peel hard-boiled eggs, Fill a saucepan with an inch of water and insert a steamer basket. Bring the water to a boil and place the eggs in the steamer basket. Cover the pan and let the eggs steam in the boiling water for 15 minutes. Then rinse with cold water and peel.
You can also easily peel hard-boiled eggs by boiling them in a pressure cooker.
ingredients
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1 big egg, hard boiledpeeled and chopped (see recipe note)
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1 to 2 tablespoon mayonnaisetaste
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2 tablespoon chopped celery
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1 tablespoon chopped green onion or chives
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prize curry powder
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Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
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salad
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2 slices WhiteWheat, multigrain or rye breadroasted or plain
method
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Prepare egg salad:
Mash the chopped egg a little with a fork. Mix together the chopped hard-boiled egg, mayonnaise, celery, and spring onion. Season with salt and pepper and curry powder. Mix with a spoon.
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Assemble the sandwich:
Toast your bread slices if you’re making the sandwich with toast. Place a layer of lettuce on a slice of bread, spread the egg mixture on top, place another slice of bread on top.
| nutritional information (per serving) | |
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| 406 | calories |
| 28g | Fat |
| 27g | carbohydrates |
| 11g | protein |
