Hard Boiled Eggs Leftover Used For Recipes

Looking for a few ideas for your leftover Easter eggs? Deviled eggs, sandwiches, and egg salads are excellent choices, but hard-cooked eggs also make a tasty and nutritious ingredient or topping for most vegetables and many casseroles and salads. 

Stir them into a potato or pasta salad or add to a casserole's cream sauce. Add chopped eggs to croquettes or tuna salad, or stuff tomatoes with your favorite egg salad.

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How to Make Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs

Making hard-boiled eggs seems fairly straightforward, but minor mistakes can yield unappetizing results. Here's how to make the perfect hard-boiled egg.

Though there are a few other ways to cook eggs in the shell, this is the most common, and it's fast and easy. Depending on how firm you like your eggs, you might want to adjust the time several minutes either way. If you like the eggs to have some moisture in the yolk, subtract 2 to 4 minutes from the time. If you like them very dry and firm, add a minute or two.

Arrange the eggs in a single layer in a medium saucepan. Add cold water; the water should be about an inch over the eggs. Cover the pan.

Place the pan over high heat and bring to a full boil.

Remove the pan from the heat (don't lift the lid) and let the eggs stand, covered, for 17 minutes for large eggs, or about 19 minutes for extra-large.

Transfer the eggs to a bowl of ice water until they're cool enough to handle. The freshest eggs might be difficult to peel, but I have good luck peeling them almost immediately after putting them in the ice water. Just keep dunking them as you peel or peel them under running water.

If you aren't serving the eggs right away, store them in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Here are some favorite recipes using hard-boiled eggs, including salads, deviled eggs, vegetable side dishes, and more.

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Southern-Style Deviled Eggs

The secret ingredient in these Southern deviled eggs is the sweet pickle relish. Top them off with a slice of pimiento or simply sprinkle with paprika

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Classic Scotch Eggs.

These Scotch eggs are a lot of fun to make, and they are wonderful with the creamy Dijon sauce. Or serve them along with some whole grain mustard.

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Creamed Peas With Eggs

This is a delicious side dish and a good example of how hard-boiled eggs can be used with vegetables. Asparagus is another vegetable that goes well with an egg sauce

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Deviled Eggs With Tuna

Tuna is an unexpected ingredient in these tasty deviled eggs. Garnish the eggs with bits of cornichon or dill pickle.

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Hot Tuna and Egg Salad Rolls

These hot sandwiches are made with hot dog rolls or hamburger buns. They're wrapped in foil and baked until hot. The unique filling is a combination of tuna and egg salad with sliced pimiento stuffed olives. They are really good!

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Asparagus Casserole With Cheese

This simple asparagus casserole includes hard-cooked eggs and cheddar cheese. It's made with a condensed soup sauce. If you don't care for condensed soups, use a seasoned white sauce. 

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Nicoise-style Tuna Salad Recipe With Dijon Dressing

This classic salad is made with fresh seared tuna, hard-boiled eggs, green beans, and potatoes. The Dijon mustard dressing brings it all together.

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Asparagus With Cream Sauce

This is a simple, tasty recipe and it gets even better with some sliced hard-boiled eggs and strips of ham.

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Easy Green Bean Salad With Hard Boiled Eggs

This salad is super easy. Frozen cooked green beans are combined with hard-cooked eggs and salad greens. The tomato juice dressing is a snap to make.

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Simple Egg Salad

This is a basic egg salad with some celery and optional green onion. It's a great sandwich filling, or you may want to serve it on lettuce leaves.

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Dilly Deviled Eggs

Finely chopped dill pickle and dill weed add great flavor to these delicious deviled eggs

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Southern Ham Salad

The chopped boiled egg in this ham salad adds flavor and texture. It's also a great way to use leftover holiday ham.. 

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Southern-Style Chicken Salad

This is a Southern chicken salad made with hard-boiled eggs, celery, and pickle relish. I use dill pickle relish. Use sweet relish if you prefer it.

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Tuna Casserole With Macaroni

This easy tuna and noodle casserole includes hard-cooked eggs and vegetables.

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Hot Turkey Casserole

This leftover turkey recipe is a hot salad made with hard cooked eggs and a potato chip or bread crumb topping. Use chicken or tuna in this salad if you'd like.