Servings: 16 deviled eggs 1x
Ingredients
- 8 hard-cooked eggs, peeled (see How to Make Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs)
- 1 avocado, halved, pitted, and peeled
- 3 slices crisp-cooked bacon (2 pieces finely chopped/crumbled)
- Juice of ½ large lemon (about 1 ½ tablespoons)
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro, parsley, or chives (or a mix)
- ½ teaspoon fine salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- Dash of paprika, cracked black pepper, flaked sea salt, or more herbs for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Cut each peeled hard-cooked egg in half.
- In the bowl of a food processor, place the yolks of all but 4 of the egg halves (the yolks from 12 of the halves), the avocado, the 2 pieces of crumbled bacon, the lemon juice, the herbs, salt, and pepper; process until smooth,* scraping down the sides of the processor as needed with a rubber spatula. Continue to blend until the filling is smooth.
- Using a piping bag or spoon, divide the filling among the egg white halves.
- Break the final piece of bacon into 16 small pieces and place one piece of bacon in each egg half as a garnish. If desired, garnish the eggs with a dash of paprika, cracked black pepper, flaked sea salt, or more herbs before serving.
Notes
* If you plan to pipe the filling into the egg halves, be sure to keep blending until the bacon pieces are broken into very small bits (so they don’t clog the end of your piping bag). If you intend to spoon the filling into the egg halves, you can keep the bacon pieces slightly bigger.
Nutrition Information
- Serving Size: 1 deviled egg
- Calories: 47
- Fat: 3 g
- (Sat Fat: 1 g)
- Sodium: 127 mg
- Carbohydrate: 1 g
- (Fiber: 1 g
- Sugar: 0 g)
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 61 mg