Bacon Ranch Egg Salad is a low-carb and keto egg salad recipe made with base ingredients of hard-boiled eggs, bacon, mayonnaise, and ranch seasoning and can be doctored up with the addition of items like green onions, cheese, and avocados. Egg salad is an easy, quick meal. When you are counting carbs the sweet pickle relish can kill your carb allotment for the day. A friend of mine recommended a great alternative to the traditional mustard and pickle with this bacon ranch egg salad that is a simple four-ingredient recipe.
Bacon Ranch Egg Salad is perfect eaten on a bed of lettuce or even for a stuffed celery recipe. Since making batches of hard-boiled eggs is an easy low-carb snack to have on hand, I make this bacon ranch egg salad regularly.
Low-Carb Egg Salad with Bacon Ingredients
I am constantly making the easy to peel hard-boiled eggs to have to snack on for a quick low-carb snack. I decided to fry up some bacon and give this bacon ranch egg salad recipe a try.
The base ingredients for this egg and bacon salad are:
- Hard-Boiled Eggs
- Fried Bacon
- Mayonnaise
- Ranch Seasoning
Add-in ingredients can also be used to make this low-carb egg salad to change it up. Here are ideas of what I have added to change the bacon and egg salad recipe up.
- Green onions
- Avocados
- Cheese
- Dill Pickles
- Olives
- Siracha
- Celery
How to Make Bacon Ranch Egg Salad
Slice and dice the eggs up and crumble the bacon in a bowl. I make this bacon ranch egg salad one slice of bacon to one egg. A perfect way to finely chop the eggs is with an egg slicer. I put the egg in twice in different directions to get the perfect cubes.
To the eggs and bacon add mayonnaise and ranch dressing seasoning. Mix completely to combine into one super-flavorful bacon ranch egg salad. The great thing about this egg salad is it also has some crunch to the salad thanks to the bacon.
This egg salad with bacon lasts refrigerated for several days. I have kept it on hand for three days.
You will definitely be making this on a regular basis. The flavors are addicting.
Ways to Eat Low-Carb Egg Salad
In addition to just eat this low-carb egg salad just with a spoon but here are other ideas for eating the bacon and egg salad.
- Wrapped up in deli ham or turkey
- Stuffed in celery
- On a bed of lettuce or arugula
- On a chaffle or low-carb piece of toast
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Bacon Ranch Egg Salad
Ingredients
- 5 hard-boiled eggs
- 5 strips of cooked bacon
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon ranch dressing seasoning
Instructions
- Chop up the hard-boiled eggs and place in a bowl.
- Crumble the bacon and add to the eggs.
- Stir in the mayonnaise and ranch seasoning to the eggs and bacon.
- Let chill before eating.
Nutrition
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Just wondering what the nutrition break down is?