Quick and Easy Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe

Name: Quick and Easy Egg Salad Sandwich
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1 hard-boiled large egg, peeled and chopped (See Recipe Note); 1-2 tablespoons mayonnaise (to taste); 2 tablespoons chopped celery; 1 tablespoon chopped green onion or chives; A pinch of curry powder; Salt and pepper (to taste); Lettuce; 2 slices white, wheat, multigrain, or rye bread, toasted or plain

In This Recipe

Making an Egg Salad Sandwich
Egg Salad Tips
Egg Salad Add-Ins
Avoiding a Soggy Sandwich
Peeling and Slicing Eggs

An egg salad sandwich is one of the easiest sandwiches in the world to make, especially if you have hard boiled eggs already made. It's also a great way to use up leftover eggs after Easter.

How to Make an Egg Salad Sandwich

How do you make an egg salad sandwich? Just chop up some hard boiled eggs, add a little chopped celery for crunch, some green onions or chives for the green factor, a dash of salt and pepper for seasoning, and a spoonful of mayonnaise to bind everything together. Easy!

For Easy-Peel Eggs, Try Steaming

Ever have hard-to-peel hard boiled eggs for egg salad sandwiches? Try steaming them!

Easy Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe — Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

Tips for the Best Egg Salad

Add a dash of curry powder. There is one more ingredient that will give your simple egg salad a special zing, and that is a dash of yellow curry powder. Not only will the curry powder give your egg salad sandwich a gentle spicy lift but it will also give it a bit more color as well.
To mayo or not to mayo? You can substitute the mayonnaise in an egg salad sandwich with some ripe avocado; if you do that you'll need to add some vinegar or lemon juice for an acidic component, and add more salt than you would expect. Personally, I prefer my egg salad sandwich with a hefty amount of mayonnaise. That said, the amount of mayonnaise is completely a matter of taste.

An Egg Salad Sandwich with sliced tomato made from an easy egg salad recipe — Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

More Egg Salad Add-Ins

Since we first posted this recipe, so many of you have chimed in with your favorite versions of egg salad. Here are a few great ideas for add-ins.

Chopped bell pepper
Pickles or pickle relish
Smoked paprika
Chopped green or kalamata olives
Horseradish
Capers
Chopped cooked bacon

How to Avoid a Soggy Egg Salad Sandwich

The best way to avoid a soggy egg salad sandwich? Make your sandwich by laying a piece of lettuce over the toast, adding the egg salad, layering another piece of lettuce, and topping with the bread. The lettuce helps keep the bread from absorbing liquid from the egg salad.

The egg salad filling can also be prepared up to a day ahead and kept refrigerated. Wait to assemble your sandwich until just before eating.

Best ever Egg Salad Sandwiches on a plate — Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

Peeling and Slicing Eggs for Egg Salad

Peel the hard boiled eggs by gently tapping them several times on a clean counter or cutting board, cracking them all over. Then gently peel the shells away from the eggs. If the shells are stubborn or clinging to the eggs, try peeling them under running water. Some eggs peel easily, while others can be frustrating. That's just how it goes (FYI, the older the eggs, the easier they peel once hard boiled).

Use any one of these kitchen tools to quickly slice or mash them to make egg salad.

Egg slicer — slice then in one direction and then the other
Potato masher
Pastry cutter
Whisk

More Recipes for Egg Salad

Quick and Easy Egg Salad Sandwich

Prep Time 10 mins

Total Time 10 mins

Serving 1 sandwich

This recipe makes enough egg salad for one sandwich. If you are making more than one sandwich, you can easily scale up this recipe.

To make easy-to-peel hard boiled eggs, fill a saucepan with an inch of water and insert a steamer basket. Bring the water to a boil and place the eggs in the steamer basket. Cover the pan and let the eggs steam from the boiling water for 15 minutes. Then shock with cold water and peel.

You can also make easy-to-peel hard boiled eggs by cooking them in a pressure cooker.

1 large egg, hard-boiled, peeled, and chopped (See Recipe Note)
1 to 2 tablespoons mayonnaise, to taste
2 tablespoons chopped celery
1 tablespoon chopped green onion or chives
Pinch curry powder
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Lettuce
2 slices white, wheat, multigrain, or rye bread, toasted or plain

Make the egg salad:

Mash up the chopped egg a bit with a fork. Mix together the chopped hard-boiled egg, mayonnaise, celery and green onion. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and curry powder to taste. Mix with a spoon.

Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Assemble the sandwich:

Toast your bread slices if making the sandwich with toast. Put a layer of lettuce on one slice of bread, spread the egg mixture on top of the lettuce, put another slice of bread on top.

How do you like your egg salad? Leave a comment below and tell us all about it. Rate the recipe while you're at it!

Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

Nutrition Facts (per serving)
428	Calories
28g	Fat
31g	Carbs
12g	Protein

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 1
Amount per serving
Calories	428
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 28g	36%
Saturated Fat 5g	26%
Cholesterol 198mg	66%
Sodium 838mg	36%
Total Carbohydrate 31g	11%
Dietary Fiber 2g	8%
Total Sugars 5g
Protein 12g
Vitamin C 4mg	18%
Calcium 130mg	10%
Iron 3mg	17%
Potassium 245mg	5%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate. In cases where multiple ingredient alternatives are given, the first listed is calculated for nutrition. Garnishes and optional ingredients are not included.