Deviled Egg Recipe Appetizer
For those of you that are incurable egg lovers will love this Deviled Egg Recipe Appetizer. These particular deviled eggs are especially nice, but they also work well with the addition of caviar. Not only an elegant touch, if you prefer, but it can also be the centerpiece of your particular spread if doing some fancy entertaining. These are elegant eggs that your friends will remember and talk about for some time.
Deviled Egg Recipe Appetizer
Ingredients:
- 8 large hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced in half lengthwise
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise (preferably top-quality)
- 2 tbsp yellow mustard (or Dijon if preferred)
- 2 tbsp sour cream
- 2 tsp fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- sea salt to taste
- chives to garnish
- lemon zest to garnish
- 2 oz black American Caviar (optional)
Directions:
1. Separate yokes and whites and chill separately for one hour.
2. Mash yokes with a fork in a large bowl.
3. Add mayonnaise, mustard, sour cream, and stir well.
4. Add lemon juice and sea salt and stir until well blended. Go easy on the salt if you are toping with caviar.
5. Fill each egg white with a rounded scoop of mixture in traditional style.
6. Stack off to a serving platter and garnish as desired with zest and chives, and cover and chill well until ready to serve.
7. If you wish, in addition to garnishing, you can top with some caviar.
Tips:
Deviled eggs hold an odd distinction of being an elegant, potentially gourmet comfort food. That doesn’t happen too often. Usually it’s either gourmet or comfort, but not both. Part of the reason is the treatment of the egg mixture. The egg yoke mixture provides a golden opportunity to develop a savory and seasoned palate, as evidenced by the mustard mixed with the mayonnaise and yokes. You can definitely take advantage of this opportunity, but the important thing is to proceed with caution, and not to over-complicate things with this Deviled Egg Recipe Appetizer, especially if you are incorporating caviar.
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