Egg salad has been in my life as long as I remember. My grandma makes the best egg salad in the whole wide world – yes I’m serious! I don’t even know what she puts in it. Raw thinly sliced onion, that’s for sure. But there must be a secret ingredient she uses for it.
I need to ask her for the recipe!
But I myself also make a decent good egg salad if I can say so. For the past weeks I’ve been making quite a few egg salads, I don’t even know why.
Maybe because it’s sooooo easy and you can make millions variations with it. And I literally mean millions! This bacon and cheddar egg salad was living in my head for a while now. Browsing through the fridge a few weeks ago, looking for ingredients while making an egg salad I thought it was a good idea to add some shredded mozzarella to the salad.
So I did. And boy it was a good idea! The cheese gives extra body to this salad. So why not use a sharper cheese, like gorgonzola? I would have loved to use some blue cheese but I think my husband would have asked for a divorce if he found out I had packed him sandwiches with gorgonzola egg salad for lunch 😛
No gorgonzola it was… but wait, cheddar is a good idea! And if we are going there, why not add bacon?
So bacon and cheddar egg salad it was. And it’s GOOD! I know, I know… everything I make is good 😉 but this one really Ãs. Go see for yourself:
Can you believe it's so easy to make your own egg salad? No more store bought, plus you can make your own variations!
Ingredients
- 4 hard boiled eggs
- 2 Tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tsp yellow mustard
- 4 strips of bacon
- ¼ cup grated cheddar
Instructions
- In a bowl, crumble the hard boiled eggs with a fork.
- Add the mayonnaise and mustard and mix until combined.
- Heat a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat and fry the bacon (without adding oil or butter!) until crispy. Transfer to a plate lined with kitchen towels to let it cool.
- Crumble it and add it with the cheddar to the eggs. Mix until combined and serve on toast or a sandwich.
- You can keep the egg salad up until 5 days in a sealed container in the fridge.
Enjoy!
What a great idea to put bacon and cheese in egg salad! This looks good enough that I might even be tempted to eat it for breakfast – eggs, cheese, bacon, what’s not to like?!
I love egg salad!! Except from the bacon it kind of reminds me of my sisters eggsalad. She also used to put tiny cubes of gherkins in it. yum!!
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