Well this recipe has a lot of positives... and a pretty big negative. The eggs taste great, are not difficult to make, and have a somewhat complex flavor because of the ranch dressing and the seasoning salt added to taste. Even more, the recipe includes a little sweet pickle relish. As I'm making more and more deviled egg recipes, I realize that whenever I taste a recipe and think "something is missing..." that something is often sweet pickle relish.
Recipe:
6 hard-boiled eggs
1/8 cup ranch dressing
1/8 cup mayonnaise
1/2 tablespoon mustard
1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
seasoning salt to taste
1. Crumble egg yolks in a bowl.
2. Add ranch dressing, mayonnaise, mustard, sweet pickle relish, and seasoning salt.
3. Fill egg halves.
4. Sprinkle with paprika
Above: adding the ranch dressing, mayonnaise, mustard, sweet pickle relish, and seasoning salt.
Above: the finished Deviled Eggs "The Way I Like Them," after being sprinkled with paprika.
The taste of these eggs was really very good. But the texture and proportion is just flat-out wrong. There was way more filling that was necessary, and the filling was far too runny. I want to try this recipe again, perhaps using dry mustard rather than prepared mustard (the original recipe from which I worked did not specify) and maybe using a little less ranch dressing and mayonnaise.
Overall: 55 out of 100
Texture: 5 out of 20
Flavor: 18 out of 20
Uniqueness: 10 out of 20
Appearance: 15 out of 20
Ease of preparation: 17 out of 20
Comments?
2 comments:
what if you used ranch dressing powder from the packet? might give you the ranch flavor without the additional moisture of the dressing.
PS - i love sweet pickles in deviled eggs.
So check out the new entry. I didn't go so far as to be Sandra Lee and bastardize this recipe with ranch dressing POWDER, but I DID retry this recipe with different proportions and dry mustard rather than prepared mustard.
And you are 100% right about sweet pickle relish in deviled eggs. Almost a necessity, I'm beginning to think.
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