This is THE ONE! This Egg Salad Recipe is one of those back-pocket recipes you’ll make again and again. It’s quick, easy, and loaded with protein from chopped hard-boiled eggs. You’ll love the crisp celery, fresh dill, and chives, with the best creamy dressing. Once you try it, you’ll want to pile it onto sandwiches, lettuce cups, and crackers all week long.
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Helpful Reader Review
“My family all agreed — this is the best egg salad I’ve ever made! Simple ingredients, fantastic flavor, and super easy to throw together. Thank you!” – Samantha ★★★★★
Egg Salad Video
Watch me make this egg salad from start to finish in the video tutorial. You’ll see just how easy it is to put together, plus my tips for getting the best texture and flavor.
Easy Egg Salad Recipe
This is the easiest egg salad and the perfect way to use up leftover Natural Easter Eggs or even leftover Deviled Eggs. You’ll love the short list of ingredients, but it’s all you need to make one amazing salad: hard-boiled eggs, herbs, celery, and crisp onion in the creamiest dressing.
This can be served in many ways – as a side salad, on toasted Sourdough Bread, etc (see more ideas below). This traditional salad is simple, satisfying, and a perfect addition to your Easter menu.
Egg Salad Ingredients
Though this is a simple recipe that uses basic ingredients, it tastes amazing. Sometimes I add dill pickles for extra crunch or stir in other veggies and protein that I have on hand.
- Eggs – I use hard-boiled eggs and cook them until the yolk is fully cooked. You can add even more protein if you like – try crispy bacon, chicken, or shrimp. If you add protein, increase the dressing as well.
- Aromatics & Herbs – celery, red onion (or sweet onion), chives (or green onion), and fresh dill really brighten up the salad. If you don’t have dill, add fresh parsley.
- Egg Salad Dressing- Combine mayo, dijon mustard, fresh lemon juice, garlic, paprika, salt, and pepper for the perfect creamy egg salad dressing. You can sub with yellow mustard if desired.
How to Cook Eggs for Egg Salad?
No matter if you boil your eggs on the stove or in the Instant Pot, be sure they are hard-boiled, but not overcooked. Overcooked eggs develop a green ring around the yolk. Follow these tutorials for perfect hard-boiled eggs every time:
- Easy Peel Eggs – if you struggle with peeling your eggs, this method is for you.
- Perfect Boiled Eggs – classic saucepan boiled eggs – great for older eggs.
- Instant Pot Boiled Eggs – makes farm-fresh eggs easier to peel.
How to Make Egg Salad
Homemade egg salad doesn’t get any easier than this. Just be sure your eggs have cooled completely before preparing the salad or make them ahead and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Hard-boil eggs and cool in an ice water bath, then peel and chop. I prefer to cut them chunky for better salad texture. Add chopped eggs to a large mixing bowl.
- Add Herbs – Add finely chopped celery, red onion, chives, and dill.
- Prepare homemade dressing – In a bowl, combine the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, paprika, garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. You can add more paprika to taste, but the dressing will change color as you add more.
- Mix the salad with the dressing until well coated.
How to Serve Egg Salad
Though the salad can be enjoyed as a side dish for Easter, it is also quite versatile for everyday meals.
- Egg Salad Sandwiches – Serve the egg salad as a sandwich with sliced bread or Focaccia, in a Croissant, as an open-faced sandwich, or even stuffed in a wrap or Pita Bread.
- With Crackers – for a simple lunch or snack, pile egg salad onto crunchy Sourdough Crackers.
- Lettuce wrap –Add to lettuce cups or Romaine hearts and enjoy as lettuce wraps, as I did with my Chicken Salad.
- Tortilla wrap – serve in tortillas with greens for a quick egg salad wrap.
- Breakfast sandwich – Load salad onto English Muffins for an easy Breakfast Sandwich.
Natasha’s Tip for Leftover Egg Salad
The salad will be perfectly seasoned the same day it’s made, but the flavors tend to mellow out in the fridge, so season to taste before serving. You may need an extra spoonful of mayo and a sprinkle of salt or lemon juice to bring the flavors back.
I can’t wait for you to try and I think you’ll agree it truly is the best Egg Salad Recipe. The dressing in any salad can really make or break a recipe. This creamy dressing adds so much flavor to the simple salad. Eggs never tasted so good!
Best Egg Salad Recipe
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 8 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 Tbsp celery, finely chopped
- 3 Tbsp red onion, finely chopped
- 3 Tbsp dill, chopped
- 3 Tbsp chives, chopped
For the Dressing:
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 garlic clove, minced or pressed
- 1/4 tsp salt, or to taste
- 1/4 tsp paprika, or to taste
- 1/4 tsp ground pepper
Instructions
- Cook eggs – Hard-boil eggs then cool in ice water. Once cooled, peel and chop eggs (we like ours chunky) and place them into a salad bowl.
- Add aromatics and herbs – Add finely chopped celery, red onion, dill and chives.
- Make the Dressing – In a separate bowl, combine the ingredients for the dressing.
- Combine – Gently stir the dressing into the egg salad until coated. Season to taste as needed and serve.
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Thank you Natasha for this amazing egg salad recipe. It’s the most delicious egg salad I have ever eaten.
That is such a lovely comment—thank you! I’m thrilled the recipe turned out delicious for you.