Smokey Devilled Eggs

I had a few friends round at the weekend, and decide to make these from the Smitten Kitchen. As usual I didn’t quite follow the recipe, so the ingredients below are what I used.

I’m sure there are hundreds of devilled egg recipes around, but you have to start somewhere.

These were lovely, although I didn’t find cooking the eggs the day before helped peeling them as Deb states.

Nevertheless, a really nice mix of flavours, though I did add a bit of chipotle paste, and because several of my friends do not eat meat, I gave the serrano ham a miss.

Ingredients ( to make 12 half eggs )

  • 6 eggs
  • 2 tbsp toasted cashews ( the recipe says almonds, I didn’t have any )
  • 3 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 1/2 tsp finely chopped garlic
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1/2 tsp chipotle paste
  • salt , pepper

Method:

  • Boil the eggs and peel
  • when cold, halve the eggs, take out the yolks and mix with all of the other ingredients, other than the nuts.
  • crisp the nuts in a frying pan.
  • Spoon the yolk mixture back into the half eggs, display on a nice plate and sprinkle with a bit more smoked paprika and the nuts.