Classic Egg Salad is the perfect recipe to use for leftover Easter eggs. Let's gather up those leftover hard boiled eggs and make a delicious recipe to serve to your family today.

Egg Salad Recipe using Leftover Easter Hard Boiled Eggs

What do you do with the leftover colored Easter eggs? Do you enjoy them for breakfast all week long? Make deviled eggs? Or do you toss them away?

After almost 13 years of blogging, I thought this week would be the perfect time to share my favorite recipe for classic egg salad.

Table of Contents

How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs
Easy Tips for Boiling Eggs:
Helpful Kitchen Tools
Ingredients
Instructions
What to put in Egg Salad
Before You Begin!
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This recipe is fast and easy to make...which was just what I needed when I was first married. My husband and I were both working long hours. I would boil the eggs early in the week and then on a very busy night, I could quickly make this recipe to serve on soft rolls or toasted sandwich bread.

How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs

But first before we can make the egg salad, we need to discuss how to make hard boiled eggs. Just in case you don't have any leftover hard boiled eggs, okay?

It's not that hard to do, but for some reason, some people can have a difficult time getting the perfect hard boiled egg.When I was first married I didn't know too much about cooking but I knew how to boil an egg.

Easy Tips for Boiling Eggs:

Place the eggs in a pot and cover them with COLD water.
Heat over high heat until the water begins to boil.
Allow the eggs to boil for two minutes.
Remove the pot from the heat and cover with the pot’s lid.
Let the eggs sit in the hot water for another 10 minutes.
Drain the eggs and serve them warm OR add cold water to the pot along with a handful of ice cubes to allow them to cool.
Store in the refrigerator until ready to use.

If you’re looking for an easy way to make hard boiled eggs, check out my post on Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs.

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Ingredients

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Hard boiled eggs
Mayonnaise
Dijon mustard
Chopped green onions or chopped celery
¼ cup sweet relish
salt and pepper, to taste

Hard Boiled Eggs with brown shells on green towel

Instructions

Peel the hard boiled eggs and place in a large bowl.
Using the back of a fork or a potato masher, chop up the hard boiled eggs.
Stir in the mayonnaise, mustard, green onions and sweet relish.
Season with salt and pepper.

Hard Boiled Eggs sliced in half on cutting board.

Serve your egg salad over a bed of fresh lettuce or spinach. Or you can make sandwiches using soft rolls or flaky croissants.

Egg Salad with Leftover Easter Eggs in white bowl with croissants from Walking on Sunshine Recipes

What to put in Egg Salad

I actually asked this question on my Facebook page the other day and thought I would share the results with you:

Mayonnaise
Dijon mustard
Dill pickles
Sweet relish
Red onion
Hot sauce
Jalapeno peppers
Avocado slices
Celery

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Egg salad sandwich on wheat bread with lettuce.

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