Savory, healthy and simple egg salad with no mayo that’s Paleo and Whole30 friendly! This Deviled Avocado Egg Salad is smoky, creamy, and perfect for easy lunches, picnics, barbecue season. Dairy free, soy free, clean eating egg salad perfection!
This is not-cho-momma’s egg salad! I mean, unless you are one of my 3 children, it’s not. Nope, it’s the Paleo Running Momma’s Deviled Avocado Egg Salad (snort) and it’s fabulously healthy, EASY and insanely delicious. It’s addicting, really. The bacon doesn’t hurt – just saying!
If you’re thinking that I’m a bacon whore right now, 1.) you are correct and 2.) thank you for checking out my recipes.
To be totally honest, I am a fan of traditional egg salad, even in all of its jarred mayonnaise glory. I grew up on 3 rotating sandwiches – traditional egg salad, tuna salad, and PB & J, thanks to a mom who banned deli meats due to nitrates and would not give me cheese due to my lactose intolerance.
I recently informed my family that in fact many cheeses do not even CONTAIN LACTOSE and it was really a lightbulb moment in our lifelong cheese fearing existence. We thought it was the cheese, but maybe really it was the bread running off like Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects (best movie ending, ever, by the way!)
Um, but what was I talking about? Avocado egg salad and bacon whoring, thanks for the reminder. Besides my childhood, the other thing egg salad reminds me of is my first pregnancy, when oddly, my morning sickness dictated that I eat ONLY savory foods, period. Too bad I wasn’t Paleo back then, because it just would’ve made a lot more sense. Instead, I ate egg salad on bagels and grilled cheese sandwiches with bacon for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and mustard covered pretzels with pickles for dessert.
I’ve told Diana about my wacky diet while pregnant with her, and she felt strongly that it made perfect sense – these are all the foods she likes anyway. As it turns out, my pregnancy cravings with each child coincidentally resemble each of their favorite foods now that they’re well past the womb stage. But which came first? Their preferences or my cravings? Interesting stuff if you ask me!
Fast forward to the present day, or really last week when I made this egg salad. I’m totally not pregnant (NEVER AGAIN!) but I was craving it like old times – except without mayo! Sure, I love my homemade mayo but dang, there is such a thing as overkill and I wanted to go in a new direction.
This is seriously the easiest stuff to make on the planet, as long as you are skilled at peeling hard-boiled eggs, or have someone to do it for you. Just 5 ingredients and a dash of spices for that smoky deviled flavor, and you have a healthy Paleo & Whole30 friendly mayo-free avocado egg salad that DOES contain bacon and WILL rock your world, baby. Bring it to your next family barbecue and watch people fall in love with egg salad all over again. Or for the first time – this recipe is egg-salad-virgin-friendly I believe. Enjoy!
Deviled Avocado Egg Salad {Paleo & Whole30}
Avocado Deviled Egg Salad {Paleo & Whole30}
Ingredients
- 5 hard boiled eggs peeled
- 1 med-large ripe avocado
- 4 slices nitrate free sugar free bacon cooked until crisp and crumbled
- 2-3 tbsp chopped fresh chives or thinly sliced green onion
- 1 and 1/2 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice or lime if you prefer plus an extra squeeze before serving
- 1/2 tsp fine grain sea salt
- generous dash smoked paprika
- veggies to serve with
Instructions
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Chop your hard boiled eggs and put them In a large bowl. Cut open your avocado and discard the pit, then add the ripe avocado to the bowl. Mash the avocado and mix well with the chopped eggs.
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Add the lemon juice and salt and mix well, then add the crumbled bacon, chives or green onion, and sprinkle with smoked paprika.
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Serve with fresh veggies (fresh jicama is shown in my photos) and an extra squeeze of lemon prior to serving. Enjoy!
Egg salad memories for you?
Have you seen The Usual Suspects?
Did you grow up on a 3 sandwich rotation like I did?
This is wonderful egg salad–so full of flavor! I’ve always had egg salad with mayo, but I don’t miss it at all here. It took me 23 minutes to cook the bacon in the oven and 12 minutes to boil the eggs, but if those had been prepared ahead of time it would have been a 10-minute recipe.
Great recipe! I cook it for last dinner. My sister likes it very much. Thanks.
Thanks & 100% Working Recipe looking good for me!!
I know I am way late to this party, but this was delicious! I wanted to bring it for lunch, so I mixed together the dry ingredients (eggs, bacon, green onions) and then brought the Wholly Guacamole minis to work and mixed it right before I ate it so it was super fresh! Thank you!
Nice recips 👍
This recipe looks amazing! Avocado and eggs always remind me of my first pregnancy cravings too 😅. It’s funny how food memories connect with those special times. Speaking of pregnancy, for anyone going through IVF, tools like the IVF Due Date Calculator (https://ivfduedatecalculator.us/
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Wow, this avocado egg salad sounds both healthy and comforting! I actually craved similar savory foods during pregnancy, so this really brought back memories. For anyone on their own journey, especially through IVF, resources like the IVF Due Date Calculator
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thank you! it was delicious! just like chilling at pinco