These are what I make when I'm too tired to prep an appetizer—but not too tired to invite my friends over for dinner.
With even the smallest amount of TLC, a boiled egg goes from the most boring snack on the face of the planet to a thing of beauty worth fawning over. So when I'm feeling kind of tired but I've done the thing where I invited people over without realizing just how tired I would be , I turn to these. Smoky, spicy, briny, and bright, they're just one notch more advanced than boiling eggs, but you'd never know it from tasting them.
You only need to do three things to make these halved boiled eggs into a we're-having-company-over appetizer. First, there's the way the eggs are cooked. Follow this method and you'll get easy-to-peel eggs with gooey, sunshine-yellow yolks every single time. Just gently lower the eggs into boiling water , set a timer for 8 minutes, and fill a big bowl with ice water.
Then, there's the silky sauce that makes the eggs taste even creamier, a.k.a. "paprika aioli." Please, feel free to continue referring to it as paprika aioli to your friends, but who are we kidding? It's mayonnaise seasoned with smoked paprika. Sometimes, if I've got a little more juice, I'll add a teaspoon of lemon zest, a clove of grated garlic, a splash of hot sauce, or a generous grind of black pepper to the sauce.
The final touch is "pepperoncini salsa," which is a fancy way of saying parsley plus jarred diced pepperoncini. The peppers are already tangy, which saves you from having to add vinegar or lemon juice for brightness. I don't usually keep pepperoncini around, so I often swap in something else that's salty and/or pickled: olives, capers, an actual pickle—you get the idea. And in parsley-scarce times, basil, cilantro, and dill have stood in as the herb.
When I present these eggs to my friends, ooh-ing and ahh-ing, I alone know the truth: These took me all of 10 minutes to make—and I kinda sorta very much wish I could eat the whole plate myself.
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