Categories: Appetizers, Deviled Eggs
Ingredients
- 12 hard-boiled eggs, shelled and cut in half lengthwise
- 3 tablespoons real mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper or 1/8 teaspoon fresh ground white pepper
- 1/8-1/4 teaspoon hot sauce (Tabasco)
- 1/2 lb lump crabmeat, picked over for shells and cartilage
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives or 1 tablespoon chopped green onion
- 1 ounce black caviar, such as beluga, osetra, sevruga or 1 ounce red salmon roe
- paprika, for sprinkling
Directions
- Remove the egg yolks from the whites and put in a medium-size mixing bowl.
- Using the back of a fork, mash the eggs and then add mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt, black or white pepper, hot sauce and chives or green onions.
- Stir with a fork to mix.
- Add the crabmeat and stir gently to mix.
- Spoon equal amounts of the mixture unto the egg white halves.
- Chill the eggs for 2 hours before serving.
- To serve, garnish with caviar, if desired.
- Sprinkle with paprika.