Deviled Eggs with Purple Scallions and Crisp Cheese Frico
Apr 13, 2017, Updated Dec 10, 2024
My Favorite Deviled Eggs: Grainy Mustard, Purple Scallions, Thyme and a Crisp and Lacy Baked Cheese Frico Makes Them Pungent and Zesty
Purple Scallions are abundant in summer months, choose firm green scallions if out of season.
Also see Master Recipe: Karen’s Parmesan Crisps – Master Recipe with Flavoring Suggestions
How to Hard-Boil Eggs: Best Way Is To Steam Them!
This single technique, you will steam them – SO EASY TO PEEL!!
See the RECIPE!
Most everyone thinks (and have written) to boil eggs – Cover them by one inch of water and bring to a boil… I’ve been joyfully cooking for over 30 years, and yes, I have struggled to peel an egg! So STEAM THEM, you will thank me.
Why is there sometimes a green ring around the egg yolk?
This results from a reaction between sulfur in the egg white and iron in the yolk. It occurs when eggs have been cooked for too long or at too high a temperature.
Properly steaming and cooling solves this problem ~ do not overcook the eggs.
I use a piping bag for the filling onto of the cooked egg white halves.
No piping bag? No problem.. simply mound the filling neatly.
Enjoy this recipe – your guests will devour them!
Karen
Deviled Eggs with Purple Scallions and Crisp Cheese Frico
Ingredients
- 6 large eggs, I use pasture raised*
- 1 tablespoon scallions , minced
- 2 teaspoons grainy mustard
- 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- 1 pinch smoked hot paprika, more for sprinkling at the end
- 1 pinch sea salt, try Himalayan
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise, one without "natural flavorings"
- 6 tablespoons aged cheddar cheese, grated, or aged gouda
- ½ teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, (more for garnish)
- 12 thin slices purple scallions, 1/8″ inch (or green scallion if unavailable)
- 6 whole Frico Cheese Crisps, (see recipe)
Instructions
- Make – hard boiled eggs, see recipe: How to Hard-Boil Eggs: Best Way Is To Steam Them! The Shells Will Just Slip Off!!
- Cut the hard boiled eggs in half and remove the yolks from the egg halves, and place them in a small bowl. Mash the yolks with a fork until fine and crumbly. Mix in the scallions, grainy mustard, lime juice, smoked paprika, salt and mayonnaise.
- Place the mixture in a pastry bag and pipe the filling into each egg white half. Alternately, mound the filling neatly into the egg white halves.Garnish each egg with a thin slices of purple scallion, a few fresh thyme leaves and Frico Cheese Crisps.
Frico Cheese Crisps:
- Make 6 Frico Cheese Crisps with Thyme (lacy cheese crisps): Can do as the Eggs steam. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking pan with parchment paper (or a silicone baking sheet.) Coarsely grate Parmesan Reggiano cheese, place 6 -1 T. mounds on the parchment, leave 2" space between them. Top with the thyme leaves.
- Bake in the oven until crisp, spread and just lightly golden, about 5 – 7 minutes. Remove them to a wire rack and cool. Cut the Frico into halves or quarters, and garnish the deviled eggs.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
