Best Egg Salad Recipe

Best Egg Salad Recipe is simple to make and can be eaten right away or stored for lunches for the week!  This recipe is perfect with your favorite bread, wrap, or even on a salad!

What is Egg Salad Made of?

Most of the time a classic egg salad is going to always have hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise, salt and pepper.  Once you have that base, you can really jazz it up to your own taste!  I personally think egg salad needs a little more “zing” from something vinegary.  So, that’s going to come from mustard, dill pickle, lemon juice or some type of vinegar.  If you love this egg salad for lunch, try our classic Chicken Salad recipe or my fave Crab Salad too!

What Can I Eat With Egg Salad Instead of Bread?

Your favorite crackers like Club crackers, Ritz, or Saltines. I also love wasa crackers. Lettuce cups are a great substitute or even put it on top of chopped lettuce with your other favorite ingredients like cucuber, tomato, etc for a great salad. You can serve in your favorite tortilla or wrap, or even a low carb wrap. I love having egg salad on toasted sourdough, or scooping it up with potato or tortilla chips!

How Long Does Egg Salad Last?

Egg salad can last in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-5 days. I find that it’s usually best by 3 days personally. It just tastes fresher that way.

A Few Recipe Notes and Quick Tips: 

• Basic egg salad can really just be made with eggs, mayo, salt and pepper.  But, we do a few things to make it the best!  Trust me on our ratio of mayo/mustard here it comes out perfect every time.  You really can use yellow, spicy brown, or dijon mustard.  If you absolutely can’t do mustard try adding a bit of apple cider vinegar instead.
• I love adding a teaspoon of lemon juice also, it gives it a nice tang!  But, the mustard adds good tang too.  If you decide not to use relish/pickles lemon juice adds a great tang.
• RELISH!  I absolutely love relish in this salad, I am a dill relish kind of girl but sweet works fine too if that is what you love the most!  If you don’t have relish you can just chop up some pickles too.
• I call for chives in this recipe and they add such a nice savory flavor!  If you don’t have chives, just finely dice up some green onions instead.  If you like a strong onion flavor you can very finely dice up some red/yellow onion too.
• Other additions: chopped cooked bacon, diced avocados, capers, chopped cucumbers, or celery.  I like this best with fresh dill, but it’s also optional and you can use dried dill if you wish.

Enjoy!

~Nichole