Classic Egg Salad - Protein packed, simple and healthy egg salad recipe. Serve egg salad on its own, on crackers or as an egg salad sandwich.

Ingredients you need to make egg salad:

eggs
dill or sweet pickles
mayonnaise
mustard (yellow or dijon)
green onion
salt
black pepper
paprika

Here are the tools you need for this recipe:

How to hard boil eggs:

Place eggs in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring water to a boil. Once water begins to boil, remove from heat, cover and let stand for about 10 minutes. Remove eggs from pan and let cool.

How to make classic egg salad:

Peel hard boiled eggs and transfer to a bowl.

Add remaining ingredients to the bowl with your eggs and begin to break up eggs with fork and mix until well combined. Try not to mash the eggs, so you have a chunky egg salad.

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Classic Egg Salad

Amanda Cooks & Styles

Protein packed, simple and healthy egg salad recipe. Serve egg salad on its own, on crackers or as an egg salad sandwich.

5 from 26 votes

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Total Time 15

Servings people

Ingredients

8 hard boiled eggs peeled
2 tablespoon pickle (dill or sweet) finely chopped
⅓ cup mayonnaise
2 tsp mustard dijon or yellow
¼ tsp paprika
2 tablespoon green onion chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Place eggs in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring water to a boil. Once water begins to boil, remove from heat, cover and let stand for about 10 minutes. Remove eggs from pan and let cool.
Peel hard boiled eggs and transfer to a bowl.
Add remaining ingredients to the bowl with your eggs and begin to break up eggs with fork and mix until well combined. Try not to mash the eggs, so you have a chunky egg salad.