This egg salad with celery features chopped hard boiled eggs, diced celery, and minced onion in a lemony mayo-based dressing. A creamy and flavorful classic egg salad recipe!
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Simple Egg Salad Recipe With Celery
If your kids are anything like mine, chances are they LOVE coloring Easter eggs... But they definitely DO NOT love eating them for days on end after Easter.
My solution? I make a batch of this yummy egg salad with celery! A simple egg salad is the perfect way to use up leftover boiled eggs in a hurry.
Although, in my opinion, this classic egg salad is so good you'll want to make it year round. It's creamy and flavorful with just the right amount of crunch, thanks to the diced celery!
Start With Perfectly Cooked Eggs
As the star of this egg salad recipe with celery, we need to focus on the eggs for a moment. Starting with perfectly cooked hard-boiled eggs is essential for making a really good egg salad!
Overcooked eggs can give an undesirable chalky texture to the salad. Thankfully, boiled eggs are pretty easy to get right, especially with some of the tips I've outlined below.
My favorite methods for hard-cooked eggs:
- Hard Boiled Eggs In Oven: Did you know you can make hard boiled eggs in the oven? Baked hard boiled eggs is one of the easiest methods ever and is ideal for making big batches!
- Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs: If you own an Instant Pot, this method is definitely THE way to go. It's nearly effortless and foolproof, consistently producing eggs that are perfectly cooked and super easy to peel. All in just 6 minutes of cooking time!
Or of course you can always use the standard stove top method. I just prefer the first two methods, because they're a more hands off approach.
How To Easily Peel Hard Boiled Eggs
If you often have a hard time peeling your hard cooked eggs, you might find these tips helpful:
- Use older eggs: Purchase your eggs a week or more in advance to allow the air cells within develop. This little air pocket separates the membranes from the shells, making for easier peeling.
- Prepare an ice water bath: Hard-boiled eggs are easiest to peel when they've cooled, because the egg to contracts slightly in the shell. Speed up this process by shocking the eggs in an ice water bath to halt their cooking.
- Employ the proper peeling technique: Tap the egg all over against your counter surface, then roll it gently back and forth to loosen the shell. Begin peeling from the air pocket end, holding the egg under cold running water to help ease the shell off.
STORAGE: Unpeeled hard-boiled eggs can be refrigerated safely for up to a week. Refrigerating them in their original carton helps prevent odor absorption. Once peeled, eggs should be eaten that day.
Creamy And Flavorful Egg And Celery Salad
Texture is everything in this egg salad with celery recipe! So it's important to understand that the size and uniformity of the eggs, celery, and onion can affect the taste, overall texture, and the appearance.
Chopped, diced, and minced are terms that are often used interchangeably, but they technically refer to different size cuts.
- Chopped: Chopping is the largest cut and involves cutting ingredients into irregular bite-sized pieces, typically around ¼-inch in size. It's a rougher and less precise cut than dicing and is used to ensure the pieces stay intact while cooking.
- Diced: Dicing, on the other hand, is much more precise and means to cut an ingredient into small, uniform blocks that are roughly ⅛-inch in size. This is often called for in recipes where the ingredients are uncooked, as in salads and salsas, or when a quicker cooking time is desired.
- Minced: Mincing is the smallest cut and doesn't require uniformity. Minced ingredients will almost melt into a dish and are used to create subtle flavor and texture balance.
For the purpose of this egg salad, we create an interesting contrast in texture by chopping the eggs and dicing the celery. Mincing the onion allows it to diffuse into the creamy dressing, adding flavor without too much bite.
Serve egg salad over lettuce, on a croissant, or in a sandwich. In this case, I spooned it over butter lettuce and garnished it with a sprinkle of paprika. So good!
Classic Egg Salad With Celery
Ingredients
- 6 hard-boiled eggs chopped
- ½ medium celery stalk diced
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon onion minced
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard (creamy)
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Whisk the mayonnaise, onion, dijon mustard, lemon juice, salt, and pepper together in a medium bowl. Fold in chopped eggs and celery.
- Cover and refrigerate to blend flavors.
- Serve over butter lettuce as a salad, on a croissant, or in a sandwich.
Tips & Suggestions
More Salad Recipes
If you like this egg salad recipe with celery, you might also enjoy these other delicious salad recipes:
- Chicken Salad Recipe With Grapes And Pecans
- Lemon Orzo Pasta Salad
- Mediterranean Chickpea Tuna Salad
- Old-Fashioned Macaroni Salad With Egg
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