Excellent Egg Salad Recipes

What's not to love about egg salad? Not only does it make for a great anytime meal, snack, or appetizer, but it can also be as fancy or casual as you wish. This roundup of egg salad recipes runs the gamut, from an uber-tasty convenience store-inspired egg salad sandwich to elegant crostini with white anchovies. Prepare the recipes as written or use them as templates, customizing them with your preferred herbs, spices, and accompaniments. Pick up a carton of eggs, pick out a recipe, and determine your favorite way to enjoy egg salad.

Japanese 7-Eleven Egg Salad Sandwich

Food writer Jason Diamond's desire for the famous Japanese 7-Eleven egg salad sandwich inspired him to recreate it at home. Kewpie mayonnaise is key to this recipe — made with only egg yolks and rice or apple cider vinegar — along with a fluffy Japanese milk bread and just the right ratio of whites to yolks.

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Egg Salad with Greek Yogurt and Parsley

Greek yogurt ups the creaminess factor in this delicious egg salad, which gets a little kick from paprika and spicy brown mustard. You can customize the recipe with your favorite tender herbs like chives, chervil, dill, or tarragon.

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Egg Salad with Capers and Spinach on Toasted Brioche

For a more luxe version of this simple sandwich, replace the chopped capers with two teaspoons of white truffle oil.

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Egg Salad Crostini with White Anchovies

This elegant egg salad crostini appetizer from chefs Tom Colicchio and Sisha Ortuzar is perfect for a cocktail party.

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Steak and Egg Salad Sandwiches

Chef David Burke makes a deviled egg salad spiked with hot sauce, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce, which gets carefully scooped into egg shells, topped with diced beef, and served with pita on the side. Here, he unceremoniously stuffs soft pita bread with his egg salad and thin slices of grilled beef.

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Ham and Deviled Egg Breakfast Sandwiches

This irresistible breakfast is a hybrid of an egg salad sandwich and an Egg McMuffin. It combines spicy, pickle-laced egg salad on a toasted English muffin with warm smoky ham and crispy frisée.

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Curried Egg Tea Sandwiches

Cookbook author Martha Hall Foose says that in the early 1960s, The Time Life Picture Cook Book inspired Mississippi ladies to "go exotic" by adding ingredients like curry powder and orange zest to egg-salad tea sandwiches.

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