How widespread are boiled egg dishes on your table? You can bet that they are limited to three variations: “bag”, soft-boiled and hard-boiled eggs. And for a change - omelet and scrambled eggs in the morning. One can only sympathize with the wretchedness of the culinary imagination of the majority of the population! After all, ninety percent of housewives, when asked what dishes can be made from boiled eggs, will offer a list consisting exclusively of the items mentioned. And this despite the fact that dishes made from boiled eggs can amaze the taste buds of even a jaded gourmet - if you know what exactly to cook. And at the same time they are able to please her husband, who is rushing to work and does not have time to wait for the results of lengthy culinary curtsies.
Eggs Sardinian style
If you are interested in simple dishes from boiled eggs, which you can quickly prepare for breakfast, like a bachelor, but the usual “bags” are already tired of you and do not go down your throat, use the recipe of ardent Italians. Eggs are primitively hard-boiled, peeled and cut into halves lengthwise. Let there be about six of them to make sure you're full. Three tablespoons of oil (olive for authenticity) are poured into the frying pan, flavored with four spoons of wine vinegar and a pinch of salt. The egg halves are placed in this mixture - first with the yolks down, after browning they are turned over. When you are satisfied with their appearance, the fried eggs are placed on a plate, and in their place are placed a couple of crushed garlic cloves and chopped parsley plus two tablespoons of fresh bread crumbs. As soon as the mixture turns golden, it is laid out on top of the halves - and a hearty, aromatic and exotic breakfast is ready.
Egg and fish salad
This salad will be prepared layer by layer and you will need the following:
| Products | How much do you need |
| Chicken egg | 4-5 pcs |
| Canned fish (in oil) | 1 jar |
| Potato | 4-5 pcs |
| Hard cheese | 200 gr |
| Bulb onions | 1 head |
| Table vinegar | 1 tsp |
| Granulated sugar | 1 tbsp. |
| Water (must be warm) | 2 tbsp. |
| Mayonnaise | 300 gr |
| Salt pepper | Taste |
This salad will require at least 1 hour 30 minutes to prepare. The calorie content of 100 grams will be equal to 254 kcal.
Step-by-step preparation:
- You should start with an onion: cut it into small half rings, lightly crush it with your hands (so that there is juice), sprinkle it with sugar, fill it with water and vinegar and marinate in this state for at least 20 minutes;
- The eggs must be chopped very finely;
- Place the fish along with the marinade in a deep bowl and knead thoroughly until it becomes a pate;
- Grate the previously boiled potatoes on a coarse grater;
- Each product must be divided into two equal parts;
- In a special dish for salads, place potatoes evenly as the first layer, and mayonnaise on top of it in a net;
- A layer of eggs is placed on the potatoes, which is also covered with mayonnaise;
- Next, cheese is sprinkled, and the same mayonnaise is applied to it;
- The penultimate layer is fish (mayonnaise on top of it), and then pickled onions;
- All this is again covered with a thin layer of mayonnaise, after which the procedure of laying out the layers must be repeated in the same order, using the second half of the products.
This salad can also be supplemented with a layer of boiled carrots, which must first be grated. And while chopping the fish, you can add a little lemon juice to it, this will emphasize the fishy taste.
Egg Sandwich
Morning dishes made from boiled eggs can be considered especially diverse - recipes were invented by generations of cooks and consumers of the results of their labors. Those who have not yet woken up before work or do not like to have a big breakfast can make themselves a sandwich, which will allow them to survive until lunch without any problems. Place a lettuce leaf, a couple of onion rings, egg slices and tomato slices on a slice of bread. If this is not enough for your appetite, you can supplement the set with thin slices of loin (carbonate, sausage, meat...) or several sprats. By the way, such a “brake” is good for a schoolchild, but it’s better to put all the ingredients into Pita so that it’s convenient to eat.
Eggs Benedictine
If primitive cooking is no longer interesting to you, but you are still not bored with boiled egg dishes themselves, treat yourself to a French breakfast. A liter of water is boiled, after which the gas is reduced to a quiet gurgling state in the pan. A spoonful of vinegar is poured into the water. The egg is broken into a ladle, carefully lowered into the container, and the ladle is also carefully removed. After three minutes, the Benedictine egg (aka poached egg) is removed with a slotted spoon. With a dense but tender white, the yolk inside remains completely liquid. These eggs are especially good with a vegetable salad or placed on bread covered with a lettuce leaf and a thin slice of bacon.
Eggs, cheese and pasta
For those who have small quantities of some food lying around in the refrigerator, dishes made from boiled eggs and cheese will be saved in the morning or in the event of an unscheduled visit of relatives. For example, this: five eggs are mashed with a fork, mixed with a third of a kilogram of any short shaped pasta (bows, spirals, shells), seasoned with pressed or grated cloves of garlic and extremely finely chopped basil. Add two hundred grams of crumbled feta cheese or grated hard cheese, pepper for flavor, and mayonnaise for juiciness. When you add any poultry or lean meat, you get excellent main courses - with boiled eggs, pasta takes on a completely new culinary meaning.
Recipe 6: boiled eggs in pita bread (step by step with photo)
- Armenian lavash - 1 piece
- cheese - 200 gr
- egg - 2 pcs
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp.
- dill - 1 bunch
- garlic - 2 cloves
Boil the eggs, peel and grate with cheese on a fine grater. Add finely chopped dill, mayonnaise, crushed garlic and mix.
Cut a square of the required size from the pita bread and spread it with an even layer of cheese filling.
Roll tightly into a roll.
Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Slice when chilled. Bon appetit!
Scotch eggs
Their preparation will require more labor and some variety of ingredients. However, if you want a truly hearty and very appetizing dish of boiled eggs, take a closer look at this recipe. 400 grams of minced meat (any kind, but preferably not poultry) is flavored with chopped thyme, onion and parsley, seasoned with pepper and salt. Five oval cakes are made from it, on each of which is placed a boiled egg, rolled in flour mixed with salt and pepper. It is wrapped in minced meat on all sides, so that there are no gaps left. The “cutlets” are first breaded in raw egg, then in breadcrumbs, and fried in plenty of hot oil with frequent turning.
Meat dishes
Yuri Lamonov, chef of the Scottish Cell restaurant:
Boiled eggs go perfectly with meat, almost any kind. Protein makes the dish very tender: if you chop it and add it to the minced meat, you get magnificent cutlets. In Scotland, they like to cook eggs the Scotch way, by wrapping hard-boiled eggs in mince and deep-frying them. This dish is quite high in calories, but children adore it. By the way, such cutlets can be made multi-colored by adding fresh chopped herbs to one part of the minced meat, paprika and chopped red bell pepper to another, yellow bell pepper and a pinch of turmeric to the third.”
Scotch eggs
Ingredients.
6 boiled eggs, 1 raw egg, 300 g beef, 300 g pork, 1 pinch ground nutmeg, 1 pinch dried basil, salt to taste, vegetable oil for frying.
Instructions.
Remove the films from the meat and pass the pulp through a meat grinder three times. Add a raw egg, salt and spices, knead well. Divide the finished minced meat into 6 parts, and make a flat cake from each. Place an egg in the center and wrap in minced meat. Lightly fry in a frying pan on all sides, and then bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees. Place the eggs on a paper towel and blot off any excess oil. Serve the finished eggs cold or hot. You can serve vegetable salads and rice as a side dish.
Stuffed eggs
When a housewife tries to remember (or come up with) dishes made from boiled eggs, recipes related to stuffing them are the first to come to mind. And if you haven’t figured out what you can put inside the “boats” yet, we offer you the most successful options:
- fried onions mixed with “native” yolks;
- grated cheese, the same yolks and mayonnaise with garlic;
- complete “coolness” - red or even black caviar (the yolk here is not mixed with the delicious product, but is laid out as the bottom layer);
- dressing made from cheese combined with nut crumbs;
- saury or tuna in its own juice with chopped olives;
- cod liver with fried onions and eternal yolk;
- fried mushrooms with the inevitable yolks, sour cream as a dressing.
Naturally, you can come up with your own “minced meat”.
Snow balls
Stuffed eggs are probably familiar to everyone. But snack bars analogues of the famous Raffaello candies will be new to most. They are simple to prepare and incredibly tasty. For three hard-boiled eggs you will need a couple of processed cheeses. Do not take something too soft, like “Yantar” - the mass will be too sticky. "Friendship" or something similar will do. Grind the eggs and cheese coarsely, squeeze the garlic into the mixture (the quantity is adjusted to your preferences). After mixing, you can add a little mayonnaise if the “minced meat” seems dry to you. Balls are rolled out of it and rolled in coconut flakes. If it seems like a bad topping, you can replace it with grated crab sticks. You can put a nut inside (for complete plausibility). And believe me: you have never tried such a delicious and original dish of boiled eggs!
Stuff
Deviled eggs are a great snack or addition to lunch. Here you have both healthy protein and a tasty, juicy filling, which means you don’t need a salad or additional side dish for this dish. And everything is prepared very simply: cut the egg in half lengthwise, take out the yolk and instead put minced meat with a small mound. Stuffing options can be very different:
With potatoes and curry. Mix 4 yolks with 2 tbsp. spoons of light mayonnaise or yogurt, add 2 chopped boiled potatoes, a teaspoon of curry powder, half a teaspoon of ginger and half a teaspoon of salt. Mash everything into a homogeneous paste with a fork or grind in a blender, add finely chopped green onions to taste. Serve the finished eggs with a spicy barbecue-type sauce.
With cheese. Mix 4 yolks, 150 g of grated cheese and 50 g of melted butter and stuff the whites. Salt the finished eggs and serve with sour cream.
With mushrooms. Finely chop the pickled mushrooms (1/2 cup), mix with 4 yolks and season with a tablespoon of sour cream. Decorate the stuffed eggs with parsley.
With canned fish. Soak 2 pieces of loaf in liquid from canned fish, peel and core half an apple. Pass bread, apples, 100 g of canned fish and 20 onions through a meat grinder, mix well and season with salt and vinegar to taste.
With cod liver. Mix 100 g of cod liver with 4 yolks, add 2 tbsp. spoons of green peas and a little chopped green onion. Salt the finished eggs and garnish with a parsley leaf.
Hungarian pate
It is quite suitable for sandwiches for all occasions - from snacks and additions to the main course to a buffet for the holidays. A quarter kilogram of onion is peeled and very finely chopped, after which it is fried until golden brown in a mixture of vegetable and butter, taken in a 1:2 ratio. Five hard-boiled eggs are placed in a blender along with 50 grams (about a third of a glass) of walnuts, toasted and two garlic cloves. All this turns into a smooth paste, salted, seasoned, and, if desired, supplemented with some other spices. A couple of hours in the refrigerator and the pate is ready to spread.
For dinner
Broth with egg
- Any meat broth – 300 ml
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Greenery
How to cook
- Strain the broth through a sieve until it becomes completely clear. Finely chop the greens.
- If the egg was in the refrigerator, then keep it in hot water for a few minutes to warm it up. Peel the shell and cut into two parts.
- Place the egg halves into the hot broth, sprinkle with herbs and serve.
Okroshka
- Boiled chicken eggs – 2 pcs
- Radishes – 3 pcs.
- Boiled jacket potatoes – 2 pcs.
- Cucumber – 1 pc.
- Doctor's sausage – 150 g
- Sour cream 20% – 100 g
- Kvass - to taste
- Salt, herbs - to taste
How to cook
- Cut all the vegetables, eggs and sausage into cubes. Finely chop the greens.
- Combine all ingredients in a deep plate. Add salt, season with sour cream, stir. Pour over kvass and serve for lunch.
Eggs Chinese style
All the proposed manipulations turn ordinary boiled eggs into pickled ones. Accordingly, their taste changes radically. And believe me - for the better. The first stage - cooking - should last as long as 10 minutes, as in the preparation of dietary eggs. The cooled eggs are rolled so that the shell cracks, but does not crumble. Combine equal amounts of soy sauce, strong, without additives or flavorings, black tea, and apple cider vinegar. The marinade is salted, any favorite spices that are in harmony with each other are poured into it, and the eggs are slowly boiled in it for an hour. Served on lettuce leaves with pickled ginger and shrimp.
Soup
This soup will be an excellent option for those who care about their health and figure, because it will contain a large amount of greens, as well as:
| What is necessary | How much do you need |
| Chicken egg | 3-4 pcs |
| Boiled chicken breast | 500 gr |
| Carrot | 2 pcs |
| Onion (large) | 1 PC |
| Cabbage | 400 gr |
| Fresh sorrel | 2 bundles |
| Young nettle leaves | 200 gr |
| Green onion | 1 bunch |
| Parsley | 1 bunch |
| Garlic | 2 slices |
| Salt pepper | Taste |
| Water | 2 l |
The approximate time for preparing the soup is 1 hour. The calorie content of the product per 100 g is 77 kcal.
How to prepare this dish:
- The chicken breast must be sent to cook;
- Boil the eggs separately, cool them and peel them;
- In the meantime, cut the onion into half rings and cut the carrots into small strips;
- Add chopped vegetables to the boiling broth, add salt and leave to simmer for about 20 minutes (reduce the heat before doing this);
- Pour boiling water over the nettles and chop, also chop the rest of the greens in random order;
- After the soup boils again, add Chinese cabbage, nettle, sorrel, and cook for 2 minutes;
- Season the finished soup with finely chopped garlic and the remaining herbs, pour into plates, and add half a boiled egg to each of them.
If you can’t find fresh nettle, you can simply replace it with spinach, or completely exclude it from the dish, adding more Chinese cabbage instead.
