German
Eiersalat (German Egg Salad)
Eiersalat (German Egg Salad) is German home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 8 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and chopped
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp plain yogurt
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 3 tbsp fresh chives, chopped
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Combine the chopped hard-boiled eggs with the mayonnaise, yogurt, and mustard in a bowl.
- Stir gently until the eggs are evenly coated and the mixture is creamy but still chunky.
- Fold in most of the chives, reserving a little for garnish.
- Season with the salt and pepper to taste.
- Scatter the reserved chives over the top and serve chilled or at room temperature, generously mounded as its own light plate.
Serve it with
A German lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Eiersalat (German Egg Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Eiersalat (German Egg Salad) carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Egg and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Eiersalat (German Egg Salad) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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Cook this with your whole family
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