Avocado Egg Salad
To begin, I acknowledge that I may now be a bit addicted. I recently found a recipe for “Healthy Avocado Egg Salad,” and I actually had eggs and avocados (technically, I had small avocados, but that is neither here nor there) and the other listed ingredients, so all was a go!
I have always enjoyed egg salad, but I never put in the time to make it. First of all, my family members don’t really care about egg salad. Second, I used to find the task of hard boiling eggs to be a major pain. Now, though, I have a pressure cooker, and that has made all the difference!
The recipe was simple (as you can find in the link above), and the ingredients are simple–avocados, onion, eggs, lemon juice, black pepper, and kosher salt. Long story short, pit and remove skin from the avocados, chop the onion, hard boil the eggs, and mash all the ingredients together.
I was afraid of using my pressure cooker when I first got it a year or so ago, but once I started using it, I became a big fan. I simply followed a set of on-line instructions I found for using the pressure cooker to prepare hard boiled eggs (you can find several with slight variations). They were in the pressure cooker set on high with a 5 minute timer, pressure was then released, and the eggs were then placed in an ice bath for 5 minutes before peeling and mashing. I noted afterwards that the instructions I “followed” stated that the pressure should be released naturally for 5 minutes followed by a quick release prior to placing the eggs in the ice water. I left that little detail out; the stream was released quickly. I am guessing that that is why I ended up with hard-to-peel soft boiled eggs. They did not look very pretty after peeling them, but I just threw them into the bowl with the other ingredients. With the yolk being runny, it was certainly easy to mush the ingredients together. I have since made this a second time actually following the instructions. The eggs peeled much more easily, and they were certainly hard boiled. Since I used a whisk as my mashing tool, the hard boiled eggs were a little more difficult to mix compared to the soft boiled ones. Honestly, although I have fallen in love with this egg salad, I think that I liked it more with the soft boiled eggs!
If you enjoy egg salad, I highly recommend that you give this a try! I have been eating a lot of egg salad sandwiches lately, and I am thoroughly enjoying every one!
