11 Recipes to Use Up Those Leftover Hard Boiled Eggs

Leftover hard boiled eggs have so many uses. These 11 recipes for a variety of deviled eggs, salads, side dishes, and more will ensure none of the leftovers go to waste.

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Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves is a food and beverage writer.
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Updated November 01, 2024
Robin Shreeves
Three recipes made with hard boiled eggs: deviled egg salad, egg sandwiches, and buffalo deviled eggs

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If you find yourself with extra hard boiled eggs after Easter, or any other time, you're in luck. You're already partway done prepping one of the ingredients for many other dishes.

Stored in the fridge, hard boiled eggs will last up to 1 week so you'll have 7 whole days after they're been cooked up to create these favorite recipes that use hard boiled eggs.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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  • 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.

  • 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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