Spicy Egg Salad Sandwich

Yeah, you read that right. I made a spicy egg salad sandwich. It’s weird to me, too.

I actually really like egg salad and have never really made it or eaten it. It was never in our regularly scheduled lunchtime rotation as kids and hard boiled eggs are never something I really mastered as an adult. But watch me shove deviled eggs in my face at any holiday party.

Egg salad, to me, is essentially a mashed up form of deviled egg. Especially flavor-wise.

What prompted me to make this spicy iteration is this video that went viral on the web. I can’t find it for the life of me now, but it was a hack to make hard boiled eggs without having to deal with the messy clean up from peeling the shells (a frustrating exercise, IMO). In reality, you’re not making boiled eggs at all, but rather baked eggs. Baked eggs in a water bath that you can then chop up much easier than that whole crack and peel.

Wanting to try this water bath method to cook eggs, I figured then that egg salad was the best way to use them! I never have mayo in the house but I did buy this kick ass hot kimchi mayo at Home Goods some time ago and I figured that would be awesome.

Now, do I regularly buy food at Home Goods? No, I avoid it as a rule (because Home Goods is decidedly NOT a food store) but impulse buying at its best, I added to cart and lo and behold, got addicted. Amazon to your rescue.

Eggs, kimchi mayo and some green onions for color and that’s it! Easy and delicious, with little clean up and effort, you’ll have this on lunchtime repeat for sure.