Making egg salad and need to know how long to boil the eggs? It’s not a simple answer, because the eggs don’t actively boil in the water. As soon as the pot of water comes to a boil, turn off the heat! That’s the key to perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs that make for one mean egg salad. Keep reading for a chart showing the timing for different sizes of eggs!
How long to boil eggs for egg salad?
Bring a pot of water to a boil with the eggs, then once it starts boiling turn off the heat and set a timer for the timing noted below. The most standard size of eggs, large eggs, sit in the water for 15 minutes to let them cook through.
Move the eggs to ice, then peel
After the eggs have finished cooking, drain the pot and add the eggs an ice bath, which is a bowl of ice water. This will stop the eggs from cooking. After the eggs are in the ice bath for 15 minutes, you can peel them to make your egg salad. Below is a video showing exactly how to boil eggs and peel eggs for egg salad! Here are a few alternate methods if you have special equipment:
If you have a steamer basket, go to Steamed Hard Boiled Eggs. If you have an Instant Pot or electric pressure cooker, here’s our method for Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs.
Egg salad recipes
Egg salad is a tasty way to enjoy eggs, one of the most nutritious foods on the planet! Eggs have only 75 calories each, and are packed with nutrients and protein. They’re especially helpful for vegetarian diets as a natural source of B12. Recent research has found that instead of avoiding boiled eggs for cholesterol reasons, eggs actually increase the good cholesterol the body needs. They’re recommended as an affordable and easy-to-eat source of high quality protein. Here are a few of our favorite egg salad recipes, and a few other ways to use hard boiled eggs:
Classic Egg Salad Ultimate Egg Salad Sandwich Basil Egg Salad Tuna Salad with Egg
More about hard boiled eggs
Here are some common questions related to hard boiled eggs! Let us know if you have any other questions in the comments below.
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