Egg salad facts for kids
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| Type | Salad |
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| Main ingredients | Eggs, mayonnaise, spices, herbs |
Egg salad is a yummy dish often made with chopped hard-boiled eggs. It usually has mayonnaise and mustard mixed in. Sometimes, other tasty things like celery are added too!
This salad is made by mixing eggs with different herbs and spices. The mayonnaise helps hold everything together. Egg salad is a lot like other salads, such as chicken salad or tuna salad.
A common egg salad recipe uses chopped hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, and finely chopped celery and onion. It's seasoned with salt, black pepper, and paprika. You can enjoy egg salad in many ways. It's often used as a filling for egg sandwiches. It also makes a great topping for a green salad.
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The Story of Egg Salad
Have you ever wondered when egg salad became popular? One of the first known recipes for egg salad sandwiches was printed a long time ago. It appeared in a cookbook from 1896. This book was called The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book and was written by Fannie Farmer.
Creative Egg Salad Ideas
Egg salad is super versatile! You can add many different cold foods to make it unique. Here are some popular additions:
A very simple version is just chopped hard-boiled egg mixed only with mayonnaise. This is sometimes called "egg mayonnaise."
Egg Salad Around the World
Different cultures have their own versions of egg salad:
- In Russia and other former Soviet countries, there's a popular salad called Salad Olivier. It often includes eggs and other ingredients.
- In Jewish cuisine, egg salad is made with a special kind of chicken fat called schmaltz. It also has onions and sometimes crispy chicken skin bits called gribenes. This version can be served with challah bread during Shabbos dinner. It can also be eaten with matzo. Before the 1980s, this dish was sometimes called "Jewish eggs."
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See also
In Spanish: Ensaladilla de huevos para niños
