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    Curried Salad Eggs

    July 13, 2020 by Jenny Deremer

    Curried Salad Eggs are sweet and savory and altogether SOUTHERN with the incorporation of Durkee Famous Sauce
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    Curried Salad Eggs are sweet and savory and altogether SOUTHERN with the incorporation of a regional condiment found in the seasoned home cooks pantry...

    It was the Forth of July holiday as well as my ex's stepfather's birthday celebration when I first tasted Curried Salad Eggs. My boyfriend's mom had invited the world to this party, and cooked and prepped for a full week to fill the buffet tables. She was an outstanding cook and a relaxed hostess who took very good care of her guests. I'd never heard the term 'salad egg' before for what I'd always known as a deviled egg. I figured it would be just one more Yankee thing that would likely be pointed out to me, but that never happened.

    Instead, when I asked her about her eggs, she explained that was what her mother and her mother's mother called them. They were presented beautifully on several vintage egg plates garnished with pickles, pickled vegetables, olives, and okra. The plates were entirely colorful and appealing, and those curious little curried snacks were calling my name...

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    The sauce that made Eugene R. Durkee famous in 1867...if you've never tried it, it's kind of a "must" as far as American icons of food go.

    A close up of a bottle

    If you have never heard of Durkee Famous Sauce, you are probably not alone. I knew of it before moving to Charleston, but only because my own grandmother had a jar of it in her refrigerator. I knew Gram to use it on turkey sandwiches. It was not until chef Vivian Howard of A Chef's Life highlighted Durkee Famous Sauce during an episode for potato salad, did I feel compelled to highlight a recipe using the stuff. Seems this little jar is found in MANY southern kitchens.

    A regional food for sure, it's a mustardy, vinegary, mayonnaise-based condiment that I have almost NEVER seen on any store shelf before moving here. And according to the Durkee company which also manufactures spices, marinades and powdered sauce mixes, "This popular tangy sandwich spread has been around for over 100 years, and was even served in the Lincoln White House." Hard to say if this claim is at all true, but hey, if it was good enough for Abe's turkey sandwich, I'm all about it...but for now, relegated to Curried Salad Eggs...

    Sometimes, the old recipes are the BEST recipes...

    I gained two fabulous recipes from Miss Lily. The recipe for Curried Salad Eggs was one of them. Her Hummingbird Cake was the other. To this day I am entirely grateful to her for the recipes, the friendship and for sharing her family with me, even if it was only for a spell. I'll be sure to share that Hummingbird Cake once I feel I can do it justice. It remains a bake I still require practice mastering. For now, Curried Salad Eggs are front and center. Lily garnishes her eggs with a pimento stuffed green olive slice. When preparing these in my kitchen, I debated about the olive slice. It was good, but I wanted something to elevate the flavor of the curry. After all, curry was the basis of this particular egg recipe.

    Intent on dressing the salad eggs with something to match the curry, I decided on a pickled onion. Using my Cinnamon and Spice Pickled Onions recipe, I swapped out the red onions for Vidalia's. A Vidalia onion is an unusually sweet onion. This is in whole or in part due to the low amount of sulfur found in the soil in the town of Vidalia, Georgia. Not surprising, this is where the majority of these onions are grown. I added a scant amount of turmeric to the pickling liquid and added the onions after coarsely chopping them. Since these are quick pickled onions, the Vidalia's were ready within a few hours. They were a superior garnish atop the Curried Salad Eggs to anything else I could have imagined dressing them with. Between the  turmeric and the cinnamon, they had turned a beautiful golden orange color.

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    Curried Salad Eggs

    Curried Salad Eggs are sweet and savory and altogether SOUTHERN with the incorporation of Durkee Famous Sauce
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    Prep Time: 5 minutes
    Cook Time: 12 minutes
    Total Time: 17 minutes
    Course: Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: deviled eggs, Durkee, Durkee Famous Sauce, eggs, picnic, under 30 minutes
    Servings: 12 2 halves per serving
    Calories: 86kcal
    Author: Jenny from Not Entirely Average

    Ingredients

    Ingredients for Curried Salad Eggs

    • 12 large eggs, hard boiled and sliced lengthwise, yolks scooped into a bowl and mashed
    • 4 tablespoons Durkee Famous Sauce
    • 1 tablespoon curry powder
    • pickled Vidalia onions, a thin slice of pimento-stuffed green olive, or a dash of hot sauce for garnish

    Instructions

    The Method

      Read here on how to boil perfect hardboiled eggs every time.

      • Have ready an egg plate of flight board on which you will display/serve from.
      • If using a piping bag, fit with an .21 open star tip. If piping without a tip, prepare a small plastic baggie.
      • To the mashed hard cooked yolks, add the Durkee Sauce and the curry powder and stir, continuing to mash and smooth the filling out. I find using the tines of a fork work best.
      • Taste the filling. If it requires additional curry to taste, add 1 teaspoon at a time. If you prefer the profile of the Durkee Sauce, add additional also by the teaspoon.
      • Pipe or spoon into the whites and arrange on the prepared dish or flight board.
      • Garnish with pickled Vidalia onions, a thin slice of pimento-stuffed green olive, or a dash of hot sauce.

      Nutrition

      Serving: 1servings | Calories: 86kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 165mg | Sodium: 106mg | Potassium: 68mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 243IU | Calcium: 27mg | Iron: 1mg
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      I am a Charleston, South Carolina-based culinary novice, ardent authority on all things travel, designer by trade, and creator of Not Entirely Average. I hale from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and by way of this blog, aspire to combine all that with which I grew up, as well as the new places and fantastic culture I’m discovering here as a transplant in the great American South. I have a weakness for farmers markets, delight in adventures way off the beaten path, enjoy documenting my many moods through photography, and have been known to conquer the occasional yard sale with gusto!

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