Caviar Eggs Recipe

Hard-boiled eggs are stuffed with a decadent mixture of caviar, chives, and sour cream. This is an excellent way to stretch caviar as an appetizer or salad course.

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 8 minutes

Ingredients:

• 6 hard-cooked eggs
• 6 Tablespoons caviar (red or black)
• 1 Tablespoon chopped chives or green onions
• 1 Tablespoon chopped parsley
• 1 Tablespoon mayonnaise or sour cream
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Preparation:

Shell the hard-boiled eggs, cut them in halves, and remove the yolks. Mash the yolks well and combine with caviar, chives or green onions, parsley, mayonnaise or sour cream, and pepper. When it is thoroughly whipped together, heap it into the whites with a spoon, or pipe it in, using the rosette end of a pastry tube.

For a first course, serve 2 halves per person. Arrange them on greens and pass a Russian dressing. Or double the recipe and serve it as a salad course with watercress, Russian dressing, and crisp French bread.

Yield: 6 servings

Recipe Source: James Beard's New Fish Cookery by James Beard (Little, Brown & Co.)
Reprinted with permission.