Name: Zesty Egg Salad Bowl Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 hard-cooked eggs; 1 tomato; 1 ½ tsp sweet leaf basil; 1 cup cucumber; 1 lb loaf pesto bread; 2 oz bacon; ½ cup fat-free Zesty Italian salad dressing

Served in a pesto bread bowl, this basil egg salad is a gourmet presentation.

How To Make Zesty Egg Salad Bowl

Flavored with a zesty Italian salad, it makes a difference to this egg salad bowl recipe.

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 20 mins

Total: 40 mins

Serves:

Ingredients

8 hard-cooked eggs
1 tomato, seeded and diced
1 ½ tsp sweet leaf basil, ground
1 cup cucumber, peeled, de-seeded, and diced
1 lb loaf pesto bread, (round loaf)
2 oz bacon, pre-cooked
½ cup fat-free Zesty Italian salad dressing

Instructions

Place eggs in large pan.
Cover with water and bring to a boil.
Cover, remove from heat, and let stand 15 - 17 minutes.
Place eggs in cold water.
Peel when cooled.
Cut top off round pesto loaf.
Make a bread bowl, leaving about ½ inch wall of bread. Cut 1 cup of the leftover bread into cubes and toast in the oven for about 5 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Dice eggs, tomato, and cucumber.
Heat bacon in microwave until crisp and then chop coarsely.
In a large bowl combine tomato, basil, eggs, cucumber, and bacon.
Add salad dressing and toss lightly to mix.
Just before serving, mix in toasted bread and transfer salad to the hollowed out pesto loaf.