Scrambled and in Omelets
- Scramble your eggs, either plain or with your favorite chopped vegetables, for a quick and easy breakfast or dinner. For something a bit fancier, sauté your vegetables in a pan and fold them into and omelet made with eggs and a small amount of low-fat cheese. While you could add sausage, bacon or ham to your omelet, keeping your omelet vegetarian will help you keep your sodium and fat intake within the recommended levels.
Baked or in Breakfast Muffins
- Next time you need to prepare a lot of eggs, consider baked eggs or breakfast muffins. You can bake eggs in individual ramekins or a large pan, either by themselves or with other ingredients. Consider cracking your eggs over chopped tomatoes or spinach before baking them for a tasty meal. Breakfast muffins are simply eggs mixed with other breakfast favorites, such as shredded cheese, diced potatoes, diced bell peppers, sliced mushrooms and chopped tomatoes, and cooked in individual servings in a muffin tin.
Frittatas and Quiches
- When cooking for a crowd or a special family meal, frittatas and quiches really impress. These involve mixing eggs with vegetables, milk or cream and possibly meats and cheese, and baking them in the oven. Quiches are more custard-like, often have a crust and are usually cooked in a pie plate, while frittatas are more like thick omelets that are often started on the stove and then finished in the oven while still in the frying pan. If you're worried about the cholesterol in the eggs, you can replace some or all of the egg yolks with egg whites, or use an egg substitute, which doesn't contain any yolks.
Hard-boiled or Deviled
- Another way to use up eggs is to hard-boil them and store them in the fridge for a quick snack or for use in recipes or deviled eggs. Deviled eggs involve removing the yolks of the eggs and mixing them with mayo and spices like mustard and paprika before adding them back into the whites.
Sandwiches and Salads
- Either sliced hard boiled eggs or scrambled eggs can be used to make sandwiches along with lettuce, sliced tomatoes and cheese or your favorite savory sandwich ingredients. Chopped hard boiled eggs are a nutritious way to add protein to your salads, since each large egg contains 6.3 grams.
Poached or in Eggs Benedict
- Gently poach your eggs in water for a no-fat-added way to cook your eggs and either eat them plain or as part of eggs Benedict. The traditional eggs Benedict involves a biscuit or English muffin topped with a slice of ham, a poached egg and Hollandaise sauce, but other variations exist that replace the ham with spinach, crab, smoked salmon, portobello mushrooms or asparagus.
