Quickie Fun Easter Recipe (Easter Egg Salad)
By Ivy Larson
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Egg salad can be a super healthy fun Easter recipe your little ones can help you make! And, it can serve double duty as a nutritious and quick dinner recipe for kids or the whole family. I suppose it could even stand in as a casual Easter dinner menu recipe. You could serve mini egg salad sandwiches right along with the salad. Just a thought...


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Quickie Fun Easter Recipe (Easter Egg Salad)
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Anyway, I like to give my Easter egg salad a healthy "whole foods" twist. Traditional egg salad recipes call for globs of mayonnaise. I'm not a huge fan of store-bought bottled mayonnaise because 1) they really just don't taste all that great and 2) the vast majority of them are made with unhealthy oils (namely highly refined and pro-inflammatory soybean oil). The absolute healthiest and best tasting mayonnaise is one you make yourself. The ingredients in a healthy "whole foods" homemade mayonnaise recipe are beyond simple: egg yolks from free range organic eggs, salt, extra virgin olive oil, and lemon juice. Yup, that's all there should be to a good "Real" mayo. In meantime, for this quickie fun Easter recipe I'm using store bought hummus (made with extra virgin olive oil) as a creamy yummy substitute for soybean-laden bottled mayo. It's amazing how versatile hummus can be and I promise you won't be able to taste the difference.

Serve the egg salad on crust-less sprouted spelt bread. Also, just a side note, sprouted bread is healthier than bread made with regular flour because sprouting releases all the vital nutrients stored within the whole grain.

Serves: 2

  • 2 free-range organic eggs, hardboiled and chopped (see directions for how to hard boil eggs below)
  • 2 tablespoons store-bought hummus (look for one made with extra virgin olive oil)
  • 1/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped parsley (if not serving to kids try fresh tarragon instead)
  • 3 tablespoons finely chopped sweet pickles
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped celery
  • Sea salt, to taste
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Optional: 2 tablespoons finely chopped sundried tomatoes, marinated in extra virgin olive oil

1. In a large bowl, combine the egg, hummus, mustard, parsley, pickles, celery and salt and pepper. Mash well with a fork or wooden spoon. Stir in the sundried tomatoes if using.

2. Serve on crust-less bread as a sandwich or over crisp lettuce as a salad.
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Crash Course in Making Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs:

1. Put the eggs in a single layer in a saucepan, covered by at least an inch or two of cold salted water. Put the burner on high and bring the eggs to a boil. As soon as the water starts to boil, cook for an additional minute.

2. After a minute, remove the pan from the heat, cover, and let sit for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the eggs with a slotted spoon and place them into a bowl of ice water. Once cooled, strain the water from the eggs. Store the eggs in a covered container in the refrigerator. They should be eaten within 5 days.
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Resources:
To get free daily updates on whole foods nutrition, whole foods cooking video demos, nutrition advice, 30-minute workouts, healthy product reviews and more visit Ivy Larson at HotandHealthyLiving.com.

Ivy is a healthy lifestyle coach who runs http://www.HotandHealthyLiving.com. Along with her husband, Andy Larson, M.D., Ivy is the author of the bestselling Gold Coast Cure, Fitter Firmer Faster and Whole Foods Diet Cookbook. A popular figure among national media outlets, Ivy has appeared on such shows as Good Morning America, CNN, and Fox News. She currently makes regular appearances on Lifetime Television.

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