Deviled Eggs "The Way I Like Them" - Round 2

So I've never re-tried a deviled egg recipe. But last week's "Deviled Eggs The Way I Like Them" was SO CLOSE to being great, I decided to tweak a few of the proportions and give it a go again! And the result was great!

I used less ranch dressing and mayonnaise, the combined total mixture of each was slightly less than 1/4 cup for 6 hard-boiled eggs. This not only reduced the amount of filling, which was WAY too much when I tried this recipe the first time, but also made the filling thicker. Also, I used dry rather than prepared mustard.

Recipe:

6 hard-boiled eggs
slightly less than 1/8 cup ranch dressing
slightly less than 1/8 cup mayonnaise
1/2 tablespoon dry mustard
1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
seasoning salt to taste


Above: using a 1/4 cup measuring cup, I mixed both the ranch dressing and mayonnaise to total slightly less than 1/4 cup.

Above: adding the dry mustard, the sweet pickle relish, and the seasoned salt.

Above: the finished product, garnished with paprika.

So the taste, again, of this recipe was great. And the texture, finally, works out... as does the proportion. I'm glad I went back and retried this recipe, because these are pretty simple, easy-to-make, yet not bland deviled eggs.

Overall: 80 out of 100

Texture: 18 out of 20

Flavor: 18 out of 20

Uniqueness: 10 out of 20

Appearance: 17 out of 20 (2 additional points because the eggs didn't appear runny)

Ease of preparation: 17 out of 20

Comments?

Deviled Eggs "The Way I Like Them"

I thought this recipe, which uses equal parts ranch dressing and mayonnaise as the base, was very interesting. Americans like ANYTHING better with Ranch dressing on it, and deviled eggs can be no exception, right?

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?