Steakhouse Deviled Eggs
- 6 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda, optional
- 6 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 slices thick-cut bacon
- 2/3 cup fresh breadcrumbs
- 1 sheet nori (dried seaweed)
- Put the eggs in a saucepan and cover with water by 2 inches.
- If you're using farm-fresh eggs, add 1 teaspoon baking soda to the water (see cook's note).
- Set the pan over high heat and bring the water to a boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Then remove the pan from the heat and let the eggs sit in the water for exactly 10 minutes.
- Pour off the hot water and cover the eggs with fresh cold water.
- Crack the eggs gently and return them to the cold water.
- When cool enough to handle, peel the eggs underwater.
- Slice each egg in half lengthwise and drop the cooked yolks into a medium mixing bowl.
- (Refrigerate the whites if making ahead.)
- With a rubber spatula or a wide wooden spoon, paddle the yolks until smooth.
- Add the mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon pepper and a pinch of salt, and stir until light and fluffy.
- Transfer the yolk mixture to a clean quart-size plastic bag.
- (Refrigerate if making ahead.)
- Cook the bacon until lightly crisp in a skillet set over medium heat, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Remove the bacon from the skillet, reserving 2 tablespoons of the fat, and finely mince.
- Add the breadcrumbs to the pan, season with a pinch each of salt and pepper, and cook over medium heat, stirring, until they turn golden and crisp, about 5 minutes.
- Combine the breadcrumbs with the bacon.
- Holding the nori sheet with tongs, toast it over an open flame (or if you have an electric stove, over a burner set on high) until it shines and becomes brittle, about 30 seconds.
- With scissors, cut the nori into a thick stack and then into tiny pieces, as small as the bacon.
- Add 1/3 cup of the nori to the bacon mixture.
- When you're ready to serve the eggs, preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- Arrange the egg white halves on an oven-safe platter.
- Push the filling to the bottom of its bag and snip a 1/2-inch opening in one of the bottom corners.
- Squeeze the yolk filling into the egg whites.
- Warm the eggs in the oven until the yolk mixture turns soft and luscious, about 5 minutes.
- Cover the eggs with a dense smattering of the bacon-nori crumbles, and serve.
eggs, baking soda, mayonnaise, worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, salt, bacon, fresh breadcrumbs
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/amy-thielen/steakhouse-deviled-eggs.html (may not work)