Today’s Christmas eggs recipe comes from Jane Payne of Christmas is my Business. It looks very Christmassy, is easy to make, healthy, and great for ‘bring a plate’ events. You could even leave some of these Christmas eggs out for Santa’s snack on Christmas Eve!
Jane’s Christmas devilled eggs
I love entertaining and playing the hostess. Any excuse for a morning tea, I say!
I like to make things easy for myself and cook/prepare/freeze ahead as much as possible. Simple but delicious is my watchword.
Those who know me also know I LOVE Christmas…
So these are Christmas devilled eggs. So easy and your guests will absolutely love them.
Plus, even people who say they can’t cook can make these tasty morsels.
Christmas devilled eggs
Persons
12
Serving Size
1 egg half
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 1 tsp red food colour
- 1 tsp green food colour
- salt & pepper
- chilli powder
- mustard
- Heinz salad cream
- Sprinkle of paprika
- optional strips red and green capsicum (decoration)
- optional sprigs of parsley
Instructions
- Let eggs come to room temperature.
- Place eggs in cold water in saucepan and slowly bring to boil. Boil for 7 minutes.
- As soon as they’re ready, plunge into very cold water until the eggs have cooled. I find that this method makes for easy peeling.
- Peel the eggs.
- You now need red and green food colouring. Put half the eggs in a bowl with red and the other half with green food colouring and let them sit for a while so the eggs can soak up some colour.
- When ready, place the eggs on paper towel to dry.
- Carefully cut the eggs in half lengthwise and scoop out the yoke into a bowl. Add salt, pepper, chilli flakes, mustard to your own taste).
- Finally, add my secret ingredient, that’ll give it tang, Heinz Salad Cream.
- Mix all together to a thickened cream consistency, then add to a piping bag (or a plastic bag with the tip cut off).
- Pipe some of the mixture into the hollow of each egg half.
- Add a sprig of something for decoration, sprinkle with a tad of paprika and lay them out on a wreath of lettuce.
- If you want, you can form a bow for your 'wreath' of eggs with slices of red or green capsicum.
Notes
When I have friends over, I never have any leftover devilled eggs.
You can dye the eggs other colours for other occasions.
Heinz Salad Cream is sold in the major supermarkets. If you’re a Pom you’ll already be familiar with this tasty salad cream, If you’re in the UK no worries; if you're in America, I’m not sure if you can get it.
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