Learn how to make egg salad better than ever by adding chopped crispy bacon. It’s crazy-delicious and the perfect lunch on a hot summer day.
My best egg salad recipe is perfect for sandwiches, salads, or wraps. What makes it the best? Most notably, the addition of crispy bacon! It’s so good and perfect to make to have ready for lunches during the week.
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What Goes In Egg Salad?
You start with hard-boiled eggs and add mayo, green onions, and seasoning. Plus, for my perfect egg salad, I add bacon. The bacon flavor spreads out so that you taste it in every bite.
If you’re not a fan of green onions, you can substitute chives or finely chopped celery instead. You could also add fresh herbs like dill or parsley. Some recipes like to add Dijon mustard, lemon juice, or other seasonings as well, but I like to let the bacon flavor shine here.
How To Make Hard-Boiled Eggs
For this egg salad recipe you need to hard boil 8 eggs, cool them, and peel them. You can buy already boiled and peeled eggs refrigerated at your grocery store, if you’d like a shortcut.
I’ve included the standard stovetop way to hard boil eggs in the recipe below, but there’s other methods too. I’ve found that cooking them in the Instant Pot actually results in perfect eggs that are easy to peel too. Cook on high pressure for 5 minutes, do a natural release for 5, and then cool in ice water for 5 minutes.
You can take a look at a comparison of different hard-boiled egg methods and see which one will work best for you.
How To Make The Best Egg Salad
Once you’ve got your eggs ready, mash them a little bit with a fork, then add in 5 strips of crispy bacon, chopped finely. I don’t like to mash mine up too much but like when the egg whites still have some texture. But if you like it super-smooshed, go ahead and smoosh away. I won’t stop you.
Spoon that mixture onto buttered bread, add some lettuce, top with another buttered slice of bread, and eat. You could also turn it into a wrap or top a salad with it. Or even skip the bread and eat it with a spoon! Now you’re speaking my language.
If you love this easy egg salad recipe, make sure to try my Avocado Egg Salad and Shrimp Salad recipe as well.
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Podcast Episode: Making Egg Salad Sandwiches
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PrintBacon and Egg Salad Sandwiches
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Entrée
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
DESCRIPTION
Learn how to make egg salad better than ever by adding chopped crispy bacon. It’s crazy-delicious and the perfect lunch on a hot summer day.
Ingredients
- 8 large eggs
- 5 strips bacon
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 2 Tbsp. chopped green onions
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. black pepper
Instructions
- Place eggs in a medium saucepan and add cold water until eggs are submerged and there is an inch of water above them. Heat uncovered over high heat until boiling. Remove from heat and cover tightly. Let sit for 10 minutes. Drain and add cold water. Let sit 5 minutes. Peel eggs. Rinse under cold water to remove any last bits of shell. Place peeled eggs in a medium bowl.
- While eggs are cooking, prepare bacon according to package instructions, making sure that it is nice and crispy. Chop bacon very finely.
- Use a fork to mash each egg a couple of times. Add bacon, mayonnaise, green onions, salt and pepper. Stir and mash together until it has the desired consistency (I don’t like mine too mushed up but to still have some texture. That’s up to you though).
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This post originally appeared in June 2016. It has been revised and republished in April 2023.