Egg Salad With Bacon {Keto, Paleo and Whole30}
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Egg salad with bacon is a delicious spin on a traditional egg salad recipe. Creamy egg salad with crisp bacon is served in fresh avocado halves.
Bacon and eggs is a pretty classic paring. I’d never thought of putting bacon in my egg salad until one weekend, a few years ago when I was tinkering around with a few different egg salad recipes.
Egg Salad is low carb, Paleo and Whole30 compliant
I added some of the morning’s bacon to my egg salad recipe, then put a scoop in a half an avocado for the perfect light lunch. It wasn’t until recently, as I’ve been updating my posts to make them more keto, Paleo or Whole30 compliant, that I realized this recipe hits all three of those categories! (This post was originally published on April 3rd, 2014 and contains affiliate links) Click here for how to make the perfect hard boiled egg.
Tip: To make the egg salad, use a pastry blender to cut the hard boiled egg into uniform pieces.
This egg salad with bacon recipe is perfect to make for a healthy, light lunch, or weekend brunch.
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Egg Salad with Bacon
Ingredients
- 6 hard boiled eggs peeled
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise (use Whole30 compliant if desired)
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Pinch paprika
- 2 slices bacon cooked and chopped (use sugar and nitrate free)
- 4 green onions sliced thin
- 2 avocados optional
Instructions
- Coarsely chop eggs.
- Mix eggs with seasonings and mayonnaise
- Add onions and bacon.
- Adjust seasonings.
- Serve on a half of an avocado
Nutrition
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G’day! I’m hungry! I could go for one of these right now!
Cheers! Joanne
Haha Joanne!
I just might have to make some hard boiled eggs to make this… Love that you put it on an avocado…
marlys, thank you! Avocados and california go hand in hand!
I would love this! Perfect with leftover eggs.
Indeed Nancy! We love avocado too!
G’day! Looks delicious! Great photo!
Cheers! Joanne
thank you Joanne!
Beautiful picture and beautiful recipe! Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂
Can’t wait to see what you link up this week! The party link up is open!
Cindy
Thank you for hosting Cindy!
I made this tonight with the last 6 of our Easter eggs. I put it in the 1/2 avocado & it looked and tasted delicious. I may even hard boil eggs outside of Easter to make this again. I am bringing it to work tomorrow for lunch!
No joke, I have been craving egg salad for weeks! Now, I shall make it. This looks great!
Fabiola, it’s nearly Easter, plenty of opportunities for egg salad! Lol!
Avcado, egg, and bacon–I am in love!
I could see this at a lovely brunch or shower, one on each guest’s plate, with a beautifully decorated table! Perfection!
I love this twist on egg salad. It is always one of my favorite sandwiches but I love the idea of eating it out of an avocado instead. yum!
You have put together some fabulous ingredients here!! I love how you presented the egg salad in the avocado as well. Makes me want to just stick a fork in and dig in. 🙂
I am a sucker for egg salad – LOVE it. I can’t believe I’ve never considered putting bacon in it either. What an awesome idea. I love how you scooped the egg salad into the avocado half!
Thanks for the recipes, I like to share with my friends. When I make boiled eggs, I wait until they start a rolling boil then watch or time the pot for a minute, and then take my egg out to cool so it is still a bit soft in the middle or almost fully cooked. That is just my personal preference. I don’t like them too hard boiled. A little runny in the middle is ok for me too. Bon Appetit everyone.
That sounds totally fine too! When I’m making a 1/2 dozen or so, and storing them in the fridge, or for making into egg salad, I don’t like that a runny yolk.
Wow this looks delicious! Can’t wait to try it.
Thanks for the tip!
Have a great day.
Priyanka
Thank you Priyanka!
I made the same thing for my blog – I was just floored when I saw the recipe the first time. It’s so obvious! I think it was Food 52. Anyway, I love that you put it in an avocado half. Very pretty.
I just went and checked Food52…theirs came out in July 2014…Mine was April. But I also think they put avocado IN their salad…I just served it IN an avocado.