Thursday, August 12, 2010

A New Twist on Green Eggs (With or Without the Ham)

Want to shake up the traditional deviled egg and double up on healthy fats at the same time? Well, the same Mark's Daily Apple post that led me to the weirdest hard-boiled egg-peeling technique ever also contained a link to this recipe for Fat Guacamole Devils.


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For my version (pictured above), I didn't have any hot sauce available, so I added more traditional ingredients to my avocado, using Kelly the Kitchen Kop's guacamole recipe for inspiration. And it was so easy! Just peel 4-6 hard-boiled eggs, slice them in half lengthwise, and throw the yolks into a bowl with the scooped-out flesh of one ripe avocado:


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Then, add desired guacamole-ish ingredients. I chose sea salt, garlic, chopped red onion, chopped fresh cilantro from my herb garden, and a few squirts of lime juice:


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Mash it all up with a fork:


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And scoop the mixture back into the eggs. Fin!

Using only 4 eggs with one whole avocado, this yielded enough extra guacamole to serve on the side with some veggies. Put it out at a party, and your guests will never know the secret ingredient to your deliciously rich guacamole is egg yolks! (Just don't tell your vegan friends.)

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Those look amazing.
Oh this looks yummy. I love avocado. I have to try these soon.
DeLISH! I love avocados AND hard-boiled eggs. Another recipe I can't wait to try!
Lord that looks good. For a spin on green eggs and ham, I might crisp up some bacon and crumble on top .... mmmmm ....
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Dude, yeah. Especially since I associate guacamole with chips, crispy bacon might just provide the crunch I need to make these complete!
DUDE, YEAH. Thanks to you, I totally bought some of those real-bacon bacon bits at the store tonight and threw them in my deviled eggs mixture. I'm going to sprinkle some more on top tomorrow when I eat them for the crunch, too.

Genius.
Oh I love the idea of adding bacon to it too. Wonderful.
Hey, nice photos. I'm slightly weirded out by eggs, and sometimes the act of mixing the yolks into the mayo and mustard is so yucky to me that I start to forget how awesome deviled eggs taste. That picture of the red onion all over the yolks lets you know how good these things must taste, though.
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Weird! I love the yolks so much that I often hesitate to make deviled eggs just because I don't think they need any doctoring in order to taste good. And you know me well enough to know that I get weirded out by adding the mayo and have to keep reminding myself that I love the finished product. The cooked yolks are so exciting to me that I love making traditional deviled just so I can scrape the bowl clean and eat the yolk mixture with a spoon after I'm done filling the eggs.

And when I eat a deviled egg, I eat the icky white end first to get it over with before devouring the delicious yolky filling.

If the yolks weird you out at ALL, though, this recipe is great because you honestly don't even know they're there. It just tastes like regular guacamole in a cooked egg white.

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