One of our favorite light lunches is egg salad with bacon and basil. Yummy! I saw this recipe last summer in Better Homes & Gardens magazine and decided to try it out.
You’ll need eggs, bacon, basil, bread (any will do, I had Kaiser rolls on hand, but we’ve used regular ole sandwich bread, too), and your favorite fixings for egg salad. I use salt, pepper, dill relish, mayo or miracle whip, and mustard.
You can adjust the amounts of everything to make as much salad as you’d like.
Hard boil the eggs. I’m good at the boiling, the peeling…not so much! Luckily they’re not being deviled!
Fry up some bacon! Fry it however you like, but I cut mine into about 1” pieces. I’m not very good at frying an entire slice of bacon at once, so this works for me. I have perfect bacon nearly every time.
Mmm…smells good!
When the bacon has cooked, take it out and let it drain on a paper towel.
Peel the eggs and chop them up. I like to use a fork for this and it works really well.
Add whatever you like to make your egg salad yummy.
Slice your rolls and toast them. (We tried one roll not toasted, but it “squishes” too much and all of the salad falls out. You really need the bread hold up.
After your rolls have toasted, load them up with egg salad.
And a healthy portion of bacon.
Last, add some fresh basil. I like the basil to completely cover my egg salad and bacon.
Travis likes to go light on the basil.
Serve it up! This is great with some salty chips!
Every time we eat this sandwich, we both say how good it is and that it just “hits the spot”. A nice light lunch for when you don’t want to be too miserable after you eat!
4 comments:
I've never had just egg salad. I always make tuna salad or chicken salad but adding the bacon sounds yummy! I might try just adding the bacon (& basil if I ever have any fresh) to chicken salad too.
I was just reading this and thinking the same thing! Why haven't I ever thought to add bacon? Sounds yummo!
Are we going to see a recipe every few days that calls for basil until the first cold snap? J/K! I make my chicken salad just like this, but with no eggs (I try and try, but still just don't like them)! I actually had it for lunch today, and probably the leftovers tomorrow or Wednesday. This I'll fry up some bacon and see how it is (can't imagine that it wouldn't be yummy)!
Haha, these are really the only two recipes I have made that call for fresh basil. Bacon is good on everything, so I'm sure it would be delicious on chicken salad, too!
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