Egg salad boats

These cute little egg ‘boats’ are the ultimate gourmet egg salad sandwich. Packed full of extra flavour, they have chives and pine nuts in the mixture.

Ingredients

  • 6 eggs

  • 3 tbsp good quality mayonnaise

    (60ml)

  • 2 tsp seeded mustard

  • 2 tbsp chives

    finely chopped

  • 1 stalk celery

    finely chopped

  • ¼ cup pine nuts

    toasted

  • 1 lemon

    juice and zest of

  • sourdough bread rolls or a baguette

Allergy Advice

Contains Eggs

Contains Gluten

Contains Nuts

Contains Soy

Equipment

  • 1 medium pot

Instructions

  1. Arrange eggs in a single layer in a medium pot and cover with cold water.
  2. Bring to the boil and then remove from heat.
  3. Cover and set aside for 10 minutes.
  4. Drain, then cover eggs with cold water, swish them around and then drain, repeating twice.
  5. Set aside to chill while you make the mayonnaise mixture.
  6. To do this, simply combine remaining ingredients and check for seasoning.
  7. Hollow out the rolls or baguette, removing most of the bread interior (reserve for breadcrumbs).
  8. Peel the eggs and roughly chop.
  9. Gently stir through the mayonnaise mixture and then spoon into the rolls.
  10. Serve as is or slice into pieces before serving on a platter.

Notes

Tip
Making perfect hard boiled eggs is a bit of an art if you don’t want those grey tinged edges.
Tip
Good quality mayonnaise is essential to a really great egg salad sandwich.

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