We are big fans of egg salad around here. Since we get at least a dozen eggs a day from our chickens, I certainly don’t mind making it!
The flavor of this salad really depends on the pickle juice you use. I make and can 7-day sweet pickles each summer and that’s what I use. It’s our favorite sweet pickle. So use whatever you like…don’t throw that pickle juice down the drain!
Egg Salad
My mom’s recipe (or a similar version, I suppose, since she doesn’t really have a recipe)
8 – 10 hard boiled eggs
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 T prepared mustard
1/4 cup sweet pickle juice
1/8 t salt
Smash the eggs with an old-fashioned potato masher. Mix in the remaining ingredients. Add more pickle juice if it seems too stiff. Serve immediately. Will hold in fridge for a few days but will need stirred before serving as the juices tend to separate out.
Yield: 3 cups
I miss eggs…we brought in only three this past week. I think our hens are hitting menopause. Enjoy an egg salad sandwich for me, please?
Oh that is sad. I’m sorry!
I just made “egg” salad for lunch today – used up some leftover tofu which has the consistency of hardboiled egg. Yum. But I didn’t dump my dill pickle juice when we finished the jar today – I actually thought of you because you gave me the idea for the peach juice gelatin! The only thing I’ve done with leftover pickle juice is marinated hardboiled eggs in it to make extra-special egg salad. I told my husband today maybe I would use pickle juice in the next homemade salad dressing.
I’ve never eaten tofu!
I’ve also never marinated hardboiled eggs before smashing them up for egg salad. I guess it would give a similar result, though.
You could definitely make a dilly egg salad with that pickle juice. My egg salad is sweet.
Dill pickle juice in salad dressing? I like the idea. Let me know how it gets if you try it!
I also use the sweet pickle juice in chicken salad and tuna salad. I know it’s sugar but it does cut down on the amount of mayo you have to use to get it a nice, moist consistency.
Never made egg salad (not a hard boiled egg fan). My husband & daughter both LOVE them though…I need to make this!
Oh the horror! Kidding
We love all sorts of hard boiled eggs around here so when I do a few dozen, a bunch usually end up in egg salad. I hope you like it if you try it!
Hi Zoe. Margo introduced me to you. I’m enjoying your cooking style and recognizing a fellow homebody and lover of her kitchen.
Our Barred Rocks are laying like crazy. Nobody has to ask, “What’s for breakfast?”.
Hi Rebecca!
Are you the Rebecca that Margo frequently writes about? I feel like I half know you
Seriously, the amount of eggs is ridiculous. But I love it! I just told Brad the other night that I think I might be addicted to scrambled eggs. That’s all I want to eat for breakfast!
Yep, that Rebecca.
Here’s my favorite egg breakfast these days: cold shredded baked potato made into a little nest on a buttered griddle; crack an egg in the center, salt and pepper; cover with a lid until the egg is as you like it and the potato nest is crusty.
Oh my. That sounds delicious. Now I want to bake some potatoes!
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Have you ever tried a dab of horseradish in your egg salad? It makes a nice change. I’m getting as many as 20 eggs a day from my girls and I’m trying waterglass for preserving extras to keep us in eggs when they molt or the days get short again. From what I read they should keep nicely in a cool place for up to a year. Do you have any experience with that?
Have not tried the horseradish!
No experience with preserving eggs. I do know that unwashed eggs will last for quite a while, but a year sounds like a long time. I’m going to research this waterglass thing. I’m intrigued!