Simple to make, heritage style, and made with eggs, I love the sound of this recipe! What I love even more though, is the taste of this recipe! This simple heritage dairy-free egg salad is creamy, bursting with flavor, and the perfect filling for a sandwich, topping for a leafy green salad, or side to serve with chips or crackers. It requires no baking, and when you learn the secret technique for boiling farm fresh eggs, this egg salad will be a quick go-to homestead recipe to use up your extra eggs!
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Modern Pioneer Recipe
Egg salad is a modern pioneer recipe. I have never heard of the early pioneers making an egg salad. I think they stuck to more traditional ways of cooking eggs, such as scrambling them, making them into an omelet, or just plain old frying them (all of which are very tasty).
What makes this egg salad a modern pioneer recipe is the mayo. The early pioneers would not have mayo, and honestly, I don’t even know who thought of mixing mayo and boiled eggs to create an egg salad!? Either way, I love egg salad, even if it isn’t a traditional pioneer recipe.
Another thing that makes this egg salad a modern pioneer recipe is the fact that it is allergy-friendly! Yup, even the mayo is allergy-friendly and compliant with many anti-inflammatory diets. This egg salad uses super simple ingredients to help make it a wholesome and nutritious recipe. This simple egg salad recipe is….
- gluten-free
- grain-free
- dairy-free
- nut free
- soy free
- corn free
- sugar free
Not only is this egg salad allergy-friendly, but the main ingredient in this salad is a nutrition powerhouse: fresh eggs! In fact, eggs contain all life sustaining substances except for vitamin C. Now of course, you would have to eat a lot of eggs to get the all the benefits of those vitamins and minerals, but at least you can know that you are eating something that is good for you and are receiving a portion of your daily needs of many vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.
Selecting Your Eggs
How much nutrition you get from your eggs depends on what kind of eggs you are eating. Yes, there are different kinds of eggs! The commercial egg industry has labeled eggs with all kinds of deceptive and sometimes meaningless labels. Labels such as ‘free-range’, ‘organic’, ‘Non-GMO’, ‘humanly raised’, vegetarian fed’, and ‘cage free’ all sound really nice, but it’s the reality behind those labels that really takes on meaning.
Finding nutritious eggs that come from happy hens can be difficult, and sometimes more expensive, but the benefits are worthwhile. Eggs that come from backyard hens or hens that have free-ranged on pasture can be up to 400% healthier for you!
So, if you don’t raise your own backyard chickens, it can be hard to weed through all those labels. It is nearly impossible to nail down one of those labels as the most truthful one, the one that really does pertain to pasture-raised, organic fed hens. The best option then, is to buy from someone local, someone who raises their own flock and is selling eggs.
If you absolutely have to buy from a grocery store though, look for the label ‘pasture-raised’ coupled with the label ‘organic’.
Boiling Farm Fresh Eggs
A lot of people get hung up on the fact that peeling hard boiled, fresh eggs is difficult. Really though, there is an easy method to overcome the peeling difficulty. The method that works for me is boiling the eggs, immediately transferring them over to a cold water bath, then dunking them back into warm water and peeling them.
I think that the warm and cold bathes help loosen the membranes that lay between the eggshell and egg white (albumen), which then makes the egg easier to peel. Here’s a little step-by-step process that I do for boiling farm fresh eggs:
Boiling Farm Fresh Eggs
- Cover the eggs with water in a small saucepan.
- Bring the water to a vigorous boil and boil the eggs for 2 minutes, covered.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and let the eggs rest in the hot water for 18 minutes.
- Move the eggs to a bowl full of cold water and ice cubes, let the eggs chill for 10-15 minutes, adding more ice cubes as needed to keep the water cold.
- One at a time, place an egg back into the warm water (in the saucepan) and let it set for 40-50 seconds. Remove it from the warm water, crack it gently, and peel away the shell.
- Repeat the warming and peeling process with the remaining eggs.
- Easy peesey!
Don’t worry, I’ve included these instructions in the printable egg salad recipe below! This peeling process works great for when you need boiled eggs for any occasion, whether it be for deviled eggs, boiled egg sandwiches, or this egg salad recipe!
Also, make sure you check out this free resource that contains recipes for delicious and nutritious egg based recipes! Some of my favorite ways to have eggs are listed in this cookbook!
Serving Egg Salad
Eggs are such a versatile food, in fact, I’ve come up with over 50 ways to add eggs to your daily diet! This dairy-free egg salad is definitely on the list, and it can be served up in numerous ways. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks, this egg salad is the perfect, healthy answer for deciding what to have any time of the day!
Here are a few of my favorite ways to serve this dairy-free egg salad:
Egg Salad Serving Ideas
- make it into egg salad breakfast sandwiches as shown in the pictures (I love this grain-free bagel recipe!)
- top a leafy green salad with nutritious, flavorful egg salad
- sandwich the egg salad between your favorite gluten-free or grain-free bread for a classic egg salad sandwich
- make appetizing appetizer bites by putting little scoops of egg salad on some grain-free baguette
- serve the egg salad as a dip with gluten-free crackers, plantain chips, or any other snackable crunchies
- wrap up some egg salad in these grain-free tortillas or your favorite gluten-free wrap for an easy, packable lunch
- throw a dollop of egg salad on some avocado toast for a delicious variation of this popular breakfast/lunch
- mix with some grain-free chickpea pasta for a high protein egg pasta salad
The options truly are endless for ways to serve this egg salad! I mostly use egg salad as a lunch option, when I don’t have any leftover from the day before to eat up. Making up this egg salad is super easy and quick, so it makes a great last-minute option when I’m wondering what to have for lunch!
It also makes a great snack option when I’m looking for something that is not sweet and salty. Having a high protein, nutritious snack like this egg salad is a great way to stay nourished throughout the day.
Recipe Tips
Honestly, there aren’t too many tips I can offer for this super simple egg salad recipe! Aside from the time-saving method of boiling farm fresh eggs, whipping up the rest of this recipe should take no longer than 5 minutes. Nonetheless, I would like to answer some substitution questions and maybe throw in a few tips and tricks I do when making this egg salad:
- instead of using Primal Kitche mayo, I have also made egg salad with dairy-free yogurt, although the taste does change slightly, it is still delicious and creamy!
- you can leave out the salt if you are trying to limit your sodium intake (however, Himalayan pink sea salt is a healthy salt!)
- use smoked paprika instead of plain paprika if you want a little flavor variety in your egg salad
- you can also substitute in a squirt of gluten-free mustard instead of using mustard powder
- other flavorings you can add to your egg salad can include: chopped celery, chopped onion, homemade relish, chopped chives
This simple heritage dairy-free egg salad is a super easy, no-bake recipe that provides a healthy and nutritious option for breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. I love enjoying a healthy, grain-free egg salad sandwich or wrap!
Simple Heritage Dairy-free Egg Salad
Ingredients
- 6 large hard-boiled eggs, pasture-raised
- 3 T. Primal Kitchen mayo
- 1/4 tsp. Himalayan pink sea salt
- 1/4 tsp. onion powder
- 1/8 tsp. ground paprika
- 1/2 tsp. mustard powder
- 1 T. homemade relish optional
- 2 T. chopped celery and/or onion optional
- 3 chives, chopped optional
Instructions
Boiling Farm Fresh Eggs
- Place the eggs in a saucepan and cover the eggs with water. Bring the water to a vigorous boil over high heat.
- Reduce the heat and boil the eggs for 2 minutes, covered. Keeping the eggs covered, remove the saucepan from the heat and let the eggs set in the warm water for 18 minutes.
- Move the eggs to a bowl full of cold water with ice cubes. Let the eggs chill for 10-15 minutes, adding more ice cubes as needed to keep the water cool. Keep the warm water that is in the saucepan for later.
- Once the eggs have cooled, take them one at a time and place each egg back into the warm water in the saucepan for 40-50 seconds. Then crack the egg and peel away the shell. Repeat the warming and cracking process for the remaining eggs.
Making the Salad
- Chop the boiled eggs and place them in a mixing bowl.
- Add the remaining egg salad ingredients and incorporate everything with a fork.
- Serve as a breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack!
Where to Find the Ingredients
- Simply Organic onion powder
- Simply Organic paprika
- Primal Kitchen paleo mayo
- Redmond real salt
- Supplies: small saucepan, glass mixing bowl
Simple heritage dairy-free egg salad is bursting with flavor, packed with nutrition, and made with wholesome, allergy-friendly ingredients! It makes a great option for breakfast sandwiches, packable lunch wraps, pairing with snackable crackers, or serving as the main meal or side dish for dinner. The simplicity of this recipe makes it a great last-minute option to whip up quickly, and when you have the secret to boiling and peeling farm fresh eggs, the options are endless for easy boiled egg meals! Despite it being a modern pioneer recipe, I find myself making this easy lunch option all the time for busy homesteading days!
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by Alexa
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