The surplus of hard boiled eggs left after Easter weekend can feel like a blessing or a curse depending on your particular outlook on eggs and how long they've been lingering in your fridge! Here's a list of everything we can think of doing with leftover hard boiled eggs, including all the classics...
1. Egg Salad Sandwich - It's a classic for a reason, after all! Once you're tired of your standard egg, mayo, and mustard combination, try adding curry powder, chili powder, or herbes de provence for a little twist. Chopped celery or spring onions can also add crunch and a refreshing flavor.
2. In Salads - Thinly sliced or diced hard boiled eggs really round out a leafy green salad, but also think about adding them to pasta salads or salads made with whole grains. If you have leftover ham, add that to the salad, too!
3. Deviled Eggs - Another classic and a great afternoon snack. If you don't want to use mayo to make the creamy filling, try yogurt or sour cream.
4. In a Breakfast Burrito - We normally used scrambled eggs in our breakfast burrito, but with so many hard boiled eggs leftover, we won't be choosy! Besides eggs, we add beans, rice, cheese, and fresh vegetables to our burritos. This is a great breakfast-for-dinner meal, too!
5. In a Stir-fry - Pad thai and fried rice are inspiration for this one! We like to chop the egg into fairly large pieces so they can stand up to the other ingredients. Add the egg at the very end of cooking or just fold it into the finished dish - you only need to warm the eggs through and any prolonged cooking will make them rubbery.
6. Pickled Eggs - You can make your own pickling solution by heating vinegar, water, a bit of sugar, and some spices. Pour this over the eggs while its still hot and store in an air-tight container in the fridge. You can also reuse old pickle juice for a quick brine! These aren't technically preserved, so they'll only last a week or two in the fridge.
7. With Wilted Greens - Hard boiled eggs pair very well with the slightly bitter flavor of winter greens. Cook a little garlic, wilt the greens down, and season them liberally with salt and hot sauce. Fold in the chopped eggs and cook just long enough so the eggs are heated through. This makes a great side dish.
How do you use up leftover hard boiled eggs?
Related: How to Peel Hard Boiled Eggs
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We dyed eggs at a friend's house yeterday and I was so excited to leave with a big bag of them. I made egg salad this morning with curry powder, greek yogurt instead of mayo, dried currants, and almonds. Yum!
If you live in New York and have had a chickplant (aka Sabich) sandwich at Chickpea or Tahini, then you know one way to use hard-boiled eggs. For the uninitiated, it's a pita filled with hummus, roasted eggplant, a sliced HB egg, and some israeli salad. I made some last night and it was a hit.
Was it here that I saw a post about using hard-boiled eggs in chocolate chip cookies? It was just a few days ago...
I love to slice a hard boiled egg and serve it on whole grain bread or an english muffin with some salt and pepper as an open face sandwich.
Be careful using leftover pickle brine for pickled eggs, from past experience I've learned that pickle brine can contain way too much salt which will leave you with hard rubbery eggs that aren't too tasty. I like hot pickled eggs, throw some sliced chili peppers in the jar with the eggs and they're wonderful.
Another alternative to mayo in Deviled Eggs? Mustard.
I am ADDICTED to mustard and dislike mayo, so when we make Deviled Eggs I always do a little mini batch using mustard and a dash of cayenne :-)
My mother stuffs meatballs with hard boiled eggs.
She mixes ground beef, salt, pepper, rice and cumin. As she's forming the meat balls, she stuffs a a quarter of a hard boiled egg in there. She then makes a tomato based broth and sprinkles rice in there too. She pops the meatballs in the broth and they cook in there. As it's all cooking, the rice cooks within the meatballs and in the broth.
Serve Southern style "Eggs Goldenrod."
Shell hard boiled eggs, separating the yolks from the whites. Sieve or finely grate the yolks and set aside in a pretty serving bowl. Coarsely chop the whites and set aside.
Crumble pork sausage in the pan and cook---breaking it apart. Drain well and set aside. Make a lot of cream (milk) gravy, and stir in the sausage and eggs whites, and heat until bubbling. Salt and pepper as needed.
Serve over split biscuits or toast. Sprinkle one or two tablespoons of the egg yolks over the top. Eat and enjoy (and don't think about the fat and calories---it's not like you're doing this every Sunday :)
My mom used to make creamed eggs on toast. You separate the yolk from the white and press it through a sieve so it's little crumbles. You make a white sause with pepper and salt and chop the whites into the sauce. Toast some bread and top with the white sauce whites mix and then sprinkle with yolks. I know it sounds weird but I really I used to like it. It's sort of like vegitarian biscuts and gravy - well not really, but kinds of.
Scotch eggs, wrap the chilled egg in sausage and fry it, looks nice sliced into quarters to see the layers of brown, white and yellow. google the you tube video of how to do it
I second Kate's post. Scotch eggs are SOOooo good. They make a good breakfast, and I usually make extra to eat for snacks later in the afternoon.
Whoa! So I just added some chopped hard boiled eggs to some Pad Thai I made tonight, and it was so good! The cooked yolk breaks down a little in the sauce and makes it thicker, so its texture and taste were truly luxurious. And I love love love making the pile of colored eggs in my fridge disappear because I really thought I'd have trouble using them up.
Someone said meatballs already, I put them whole in meatloaf sometimes.
Kedgeree: smoked haddock, rice, currants, HB eggs, currants (recipes abound)
A Hungarian acquaintance made a wonderful baked dish with HB eggs, sour cream, and I think onions but I don't remember all the details.