Snacks · Wings & party bites

Deviled eggs

Name: Deviled eggs
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 32 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 6 eggs egg; 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 2 tbsp whole-milk Greek yogurt; 1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard; 1 tsp white vinegar; a pinch salt; to dust paprika

Hard-boiled eggs with the yolks whipped into a mustardy cream and piped back in. One of America's most-searched party dishes every holiday, and nearly pure egg protein in portions that limit themselves.

Time: 32 min (20 prep + 12 cook)
Servings: 6
Per serving: 114 kcal
Protein: 7 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

6 eggs egg300 g

Filling

2 tbsp mayonnaise30 g
2 tbsp whole-milk Greek yogurt30 g
1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard8 g
1 tsp white vinegar5 g
a pinch salt1 g
to dust paprika1 g

Every ingredient links to its food page — same data, same score, same formula.

Steps

Cover the eggs with cold water, bring to a boil, take the pan off the heat and lid it for 11 minutes. Then straight into iced water — the shock is what stops the grey ring and makes them peel.
Peel, halve lengthways, and pop the yolks into a bowl.
Mash the yolks completely smooth with the mayonnaise, yogurt, mustard, vinegar and salt. Half yogurt is the modern build — it keeps the filling light and slightly tangy without reading as diet food.
Spoon or pipe back into the whites and dust with paprika. They keep a day in the fridge; fill just before serving if you make them ahead.

Older or fresher eggs?

Older. A week-old egg peels cleanly where a farm-fresh one tears, because the membrane loosens as the egg ages. It's the only ingredient where less fresh is better.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

24% of kcal

71% water

1 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

Nothing here converges the way engineered food does — no sugar, no savoury and no alcohol penalty.

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 685 kcal goes into the pot, 375 g of ingredients comes out as ~360 g of food → 190 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 190
Protein: (24%); 11 g
Fat: (73%); 15 g
Carbohydrates: (3%); 2 g
of which sugar: 1 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 296 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

More snacks

Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.