5 Recipes for Leftover Eggs

Leftover eggs are the start of delicious recipes. If you have too many hard cooked eggs here are some easy recipes to consider. These recipes and a little more info on all the benefits of eggs were part of an article I wrote for the Manitoba Cooperator.

6 boiled and peeled eggs on a plate with blue tablecloth in the background

Read more: Easy Peel Boiled Eggs, 10 FAQs About Eggs, Dilly Egg Salad Recipe, Ham, Egg & Cheese Muffins.

How Long Can You Store Cooked Eggs?

Keep hard cooked eggs in the fridge in their shell for a week. Once you crack them and use them in other dishes, use within 3-5 days.

5 Recipes for Leftover Eggs

1.Ham, Egg and Cheese Muffins

A BELT is a fave at our house: Bacon (or ham), eggs (fried or hard cooked), lettuce & tomato.

Slice your hard cooked eggs and use them in place of poached eggs on these ham, egg and cheese muffins. Perfect if you have leftover ham too. The kale slaw is a nice side.

2. Dillicious Egg Salad

Egg salad as a side dish or as a sandwich topping is my all time favorite way to use up hard cooked eggs. My egg salad recipe has been handed down through the generations.  This traditional German recipe includes dill pickles, dill pickle brine and dill, making it the most dillicious egg salad recipe you’ll ever taste!

Egg salad on croissant with cut veggies on plate

3.Fast and Easy Pickled Eggs – Three Flavors

Never mind making your own vinegar and spice solution – use what’s already in your fridge!  Yup, all you need is the juice or brine from your dill pickles, pickled veggies, hot peppers, pickled beets or sauerkraut.  Make one, two or a dozen pickled eggs in record time! Read all about it on How to Pickle Eggs the Fast and Easy Way.

4. Deviled Eggs – Lightened Up (no mayo)

This recipe uses Greek yogurt instead of mayonnaise to lighten things up a little.

deviled eggs on a tray

5. Salad Topper

Slice, dice, quarter or crumble hard cooked eggs onto just about any salad. You don’t need a recipe – just top on your favourite salad. Enjoy it as a side or as a main entrée.

Need dressing ideas? Try it with a Caesar Dressing, this Zesty lemon chive dressing or one of these 7 creamy dressings.

egg on quinoa and greens salad, topped with italian vinaigrette
Add crumbled, sliced, diced or quartered hard cooked eggs to just about any salad for extra protein.

What’s your favorite way to use leftover eggs?

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