Use Your Easter Leftovers!

Spring and Easter meals are delicious, but may leave you with some unusual leftovers.  Do you end up throwing out dozens of hard boiled eggs?  Wonder what to do with the ham that everyone has already had enough of?  Or the asparagus that your children didn’t like?  Well, here are several fresh recipes that will use all of those very leftovers! 

Deviled eggs a la Sam

Makes 20 halves

Ingredients

  • 10 large hard boiled eggs
  • 1 T. water
  • 1/2 tsp. cumin
  • 1/4 tsp. granulated garlic
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 avocados, halved, pitted, and cut into small chunks
  • 1/2 small red onion, minced
  • 4 cherry tomatoes, minced
  • Juice of 1 large lime
  • Dash of hot pepper sauce (or to taste)
  • 2 thick slices of prosciutto, finely chopped
  • 2 tsp. minced fresh cilantro

Directions

  • In a small bowl, combine water, cumin, garlic, and salt and mix well
  • Add the avocados, onion, tomato and lime juice
  • Mash with a potato masher
  • Add hot pepper sauce and prosciutto and mix well
  • Set aside
  • Peel the hard boiled eggs and cut in half
  • Remove the yolks and set aside the whites
  • Add the yolks to the avocado mixture, mixing well to combine
  • Spoon mixture into the egg halves

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