17 Recipes To Use Up Leftover Hard-Boiled Eggs

Recipes to enjoy all those leftover eggs you made for Easter.

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Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves is a food and beverage writer.
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Published April 20, 2025
Robin Shreeves
Egg Salad Sandwich

Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

If you have extra hard-boiled eggs after Easter or at any other time, you're in luck. You're already partway through prepping one of the ingredients for many other dishes.

Hard-boiled eggs can be stored in the fridge for up to one week, so you'll have seven whole days after cooking them to create these favorite recipes.

  • Egg Masala Curry

    Plate of Egg Masala Curry with a Spoon on a Kitchen Linen

    Simply Recipes / Annika Panikker

    Here's a quick and satisfying weeknight dinner and a classic of Indian home cooking and street food alike. You'll find different versions across India, but this one has a thick sauce rich with long-cooked onions and is slightly sweet from a secret ingredient: a squirt of ketchup. It's substitution-friendly, so if you don't have all the spices, riff away with what's in your cupboard.

  • 3-Ingredient Egg Salad

    3-ingredient egg salad on toast next to a bowl with more egg salad

    Simply Recipes / Stephanie Ganz

    Contributor Stephanie A. Ganz says, "Since this salad can be stored in the fridge for up to five days, it’s a great choice for meal-prepping at the beginning of the week. It’s easy to scale up the recipe to make a double batch—simply double the ingredients and you’ve got twice the eggy goodness."

  • Dad's Potato Salad

    potato salad with egg and red pepper in a bowl
    Elise Bauer

    The secret ingredient to this potato salad is not the cut up hard boiled eggs, even though they add flavor and interest. The secret is pickle juice! Plus a little mustard. Next time you make potato salad, try this version for a change from your usual.

  • Grated Egg Toast

    Grated egg on avocado toast

    Simply Recipes / Emma Christensen

    Tik Tok trends come and go quickly, but if you get a good recipe, there's no reason to not keep making it once the trend has passed. This grated egg toast took the social media site by storm, and it tastes amazing. Smash ripe avocado on toast, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and then using a cheese grater, grate hard boiled egg on top. Even if you're not into trends, it's worth trying.

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  • Pickled Eggs

    pickled eggs
    Elise Bauer

    Pickling adds a lot of flavor and a lot of longevity to your hard boiled eggs—they'll last for 30 days in the refrigerator. You have four versions to choose from: red beet pickled eggs, an Indian version featuring yellow curry, jalapeño pickled eggs, and a tarragon mustard version.

  • Quick and Easy Egg Salad Sandwich

    Egg Salad Sandwich

    Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

    If you already have hard boiled eggs, an egg salad sandwich is just minutes away. Chop the eggs and mix them with mayo, celery, green onion, and a pinch of curry. Spread it on your choice of bread—toasted or plain—and a lettuce leaf or two and take a big bite. Yum.

  • Soy Sauce Eggs

    Soy Sauce Eggs on Plate with Two Eggs Cut in Half

    Alison Bickel / Simply Recipes

    Contributor Vivian Jo says, "The eggs can be eaten after marinating for 4 hours, but I prefer them at the 8-hour mark when they've absorbed a good amount of flavor and color. The longer you marinate them, the flavors of ginger and garlic become bolder, but may get too salty after 24 hours."

  • Deviled Egg Salad

    Deviled Egg Salad
    Elise Bauer

    Reinvent the classic deviled egg by turning it into a salad that's perfect for parties and potlucks. Mixed with mayo and Dijon, and with a crunch from chopped celery, red bell pepper, and green onion, this salad gets a little kick from Tabasco.

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  • Pan Bagnat (French Tuna Sandwich)

    Pan Bagnat
    Sally Vargas

    Contributor Sally Vargas says, "Instead of a baguette, you can also make this sandwich with one 8-inch round crusty loaf."

  • Niçoise Salad

    Overhead view of a salade nicoise.
    Ciara Kehoe

    Tuna, green beans, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, capers, and potatoes—this is one hardy French salad that will fill you up. Drizzle it with a Dijon vinaigrette full of fresh herbs and shallot.

  • Eggs Mimosa with Artichoke Tapenade

    A plate of eggs mimosa ready to serve
    Elise Bauer

    Founder Elise Bauer says, "We are using canned artichoke hearts that have been packed in water. You could also use freshly cooked artichoke hearts. Just avoid the artichoke hearts that are packed in a marinade; those would overwhelm this dish."

  • Buffalo Blue Cheese Deviled Eggs

    Deviled Eggs with Blue Cheese
    Elise Bauer

    Another riff on the classic deviled egg, blue cheese and buffalo sauce mix with the yolks. They're topped, of course, with finely diced celery.

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  • Chickpea and Tomato Salad

    chickpea, tomato, hard boiled egg salad
    Elise Bauer

    Open up a couple of cans of chickpeas, and add chopped tomato, onion, and hard boiled eggs, Drizzle with a garlic Dijon vinaigrette and you have a salad.

  • Avocado Deviled Eggs

    Guacamole Deviled Eggs
    Elise Bauer

    Hard boiled eggs and avocado are made for each other and create an extra creamy deviled egg that needs no mayo. Add some heat with jalapeño or really kick it up with serrano.

  • Asparagus Mimosa with Hard Boiled Eggs and Capers

    asparagus mimosa in a white dish
    Elise Bauer

    No vodka and orange juice here. This asparagus dish gets its name because grated egg over asparagus resembles bright yellow mimosa flowers. A caper vinaigrette adds a briny element to this side dish.

  • Cobb Salad

    cobb salad on blue and white plate
    Sally Vargas

    A cobb salad is a classic, and if you have leftover hard boiled eggs, it's also easy to make. Add the egg, bacon, avocado, chicken breast, and some chives on top of mixed lettuces. Pour on a red wine Dijon vinaigrette and dig in.

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  • Sour Cream and Bacon Deviled Eggs

    sour cream and bacon deviled eggs
    Lisa Lin

    For this variation on deviled eggs, smash the egg yolks with sour cream, bacon, Dijon, garlic, and chives. The richness of full-fat sour cream really gives the deviled eggs a nice creamy texture.

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