Liked Deviled Eggs And Potato Salad? Try Deviled Egg Salad

The spring of 2023 may have been a breakthrough season for deviled eggs. We're thinking specifically of Ali Slagle's recipe for Jammy Deviled Eggs, which skips the piping bag (and the extra dishes) required for your grandmother's recipe. Instead, Slagle cuts out the middleman by topping the jammy centers of halved hard-boiled eggs with cayenne, paprika, Dijon mustard, and all the other usual suspects. The Easter-appropriate spin on the appetizer supposedly dates back to ancient Rome, long before the invention of mayonnaise. 

Whichever way you prefer to prepare them, creamy egg yolks doctored up with condiments, herbs, and spices are some of the best things you can eat while lounging on a picnic blanket. If you like deviled eggs, chances are you also like potato salad, which shares a similar flavor profile and equal billing at a picnic. That being said, if you're looking to consolidate your al-fresco lunch, why not try combining the two? 

Rachel Mumolo of the Wolfcaster Kitchen blog demonstrates how to make deviled egg potato salad in a TikTok video. The process is pretty self-explanatory — she adds deviled eggs to a bowl of potatoes. 

First, she brings cubed, sliced potatoes to a boil in salted water and cooks them for 15 minutes. While the potatoes are going, she hard-boils the eggs and lets them cool in an ice bath. Next, she drains the potatoes, covers them with a towel, and pops them in the fridge to cool. 

She peels the eggs, cuts them in half, and separates the yolks from the whites, just like you would for traditional deviled eggs. Instead of keeping the whites intact, however, she chops them up. As for the yolks, she adds mayonnaise, mustard, white vinegar, salt, pepper, and relish. Finally, she adds the whites and the yolk mixture to the potatoes, sprinkles in more salt and pepper, and tops it all off with paprika and green onion.

It's hard to determine the origin of deviled egg potato salad, but one thing's for sure: it's been popular over the past couple of years. Recipes for the hybrid dish can be found everywhere, and many gained notoriety in 2021 and 2022. The only thinking stopping us from assuming the dish arose from TikTok is a Rachel Ray recipe from the mid-2000s. Did the queen of 30-minute meals shepherd it into existence? 

Ray doesn't call for hard-boiled eggs. Instead, she dresses boiled potatoes with grated onion, yellow mustard, mayonnaise, paprika, cayenne, salt and pepper, and green onion. The whole operation takes all of 22 minutes, leaving plenty of time to deal with more important things, like remembering to pack sunscreen for your picnic. 

If you have a few extra minutes of time on your hands and you enjoy the meditative process of scooping cooked egg yolks from their whites, go with the TikTok method.