[GinnyT]

Can you make deviled eggs without the yolk?

[MrsJim]

Isn't that illegal?!?!?

I dunno, to me it doesn't sound like it would really be deviled eggs w/o the yolk.

Deviled eggs are a REQUIREMENT at our family Easter dinners - I tend to relax a bit as far as the food goes. It's not like I eat them every day or anything (just at holidays - we have them at Christmas and Thanksgiving too!). The big diff for me from, say, 14 years ago is that I don't feel the NEED to eat everything in sight until I'm ready to barf. One modest helping of everything is generally enough for me these days.

My sister is hosting Easter dinner and since we have the same thing every year, I know what we're having:

HoneyBaked Ham
Deviled eggs
Steamed asparagus
Mashed sweet potatoes
Green Salad
Rolls
Probably a Jello mold salad
Probably mashed white potatoes

We usually skip dessert or just have berries or something like that.

[GinnyT]

We're having the traditional meal at MIL's and I'm in charge of deviled eggs which I LOVE! I was just thinking it would be a cool thing to munch on everyday, if you could make them without the yolks. Maybe cottage cheese as a filling?
Does kind of defeat the purpose though, doesn't it?

[Meg]

I don't think that the egg yolks are as bad for you as is the mayo. The mustard would be OK, of course. Maybe you're on to something with the cottage cheese if you could substitute it for the mayo? You'd have to really blend the heck out of it to make sure it's smooth, though.

[jiffypop]

i eat a deviled egg every day. and with some recipes, you can certainly REDUCE the yolkage.. but it's not a good idea <at least IMO> to get rid of it completely. it's not a deviled egg, then!!!!

soool ya gotta replace the volume. the cottage cheese is a good idea.

i use salsa. drain it well on some paper toweling and just mash it in.

you could also use pickle relish, or olives. or plain chopped tomatoes.

i also use a low fat chipotle mayo and lots of good mustard. plus chili powder, chipotle powder, and cumin [are you seeing a trend here???]
so my advice would be to use just half the yolks.

good luck!!! and PS. don't tell anyone what you did. what they don't know won't hurt them.

but then again, if they're expecting traditional deviled eggs and something hot and spicy shows up, maybe they'll be unhappy anyway!!!!

[GinnyT]

Thanks for the ideas Jiffy! I'm going to make a test batch tonight before I try feeding them to my family

[MrsJim]

I saw this book at Draeger's this week in their Easter display if you're a DEA (Deviled Egg Addict):



Nope, I didn't look inside the book - my hands were full

Jiff's tale just reminded me of something that happened back when I was, oh around 8 or 9 years old. Of course since we're good Americans we have deviled eggs at every holiday dinner...one Thanksgiving some friends of my parents' (one of those old wealthy couples with no kids) were invited. The wife wanted to bring a batch of 'her special deviled eggs'. So Mom didn't make them, since the lady was bringing some. Sure enough...she brought a big tray full. They looked really good - I remember she used things like bits of pimento and such to make little designs on top of the 'devilment' as we call it My sisters and I all rushed to grab one and pop it in our mouths to find...her 'special recipe' included some sort of BOOZE! BLEAAAGHGGHGHGHH!!! And it wasn't like we could spit them out in front of my parents' friends...we managed to swallow what we had in our mouths and subtly wash it down with punch or whatever we were drinking at the time.

First time a tray of deviled eggs went unfinished in our house.

Needless to say, my Dad had a good laugh afterwards!

[GinnyT]

That gives a whole new meaning to the term "deviled"
I'll pop into a bookstore and see if there's anything worth making. thanks!

[Meg]

Devilled eggs ... with booze??? Yuck! I've done a lot of cooking but have never heard of such a thing. I just headed over to allrecipes.com to see if I could find something like that and, though they have devilled egg recipes with EVERY conceivable ingredient, no booze.

Methinks that the chef added a splash of liquor to everything she cooked -- and probably to herself too! (you know, the old "one for the pot and one for the cook" ....)

[Goddess Jessica]

I've used hummus instead of yolks in deviled eggs. Not the same but pretty darn good.

[jiffypop]

oooohhh. hummus sounds GREAT!!! i'll have to try it!!!!