It seems everyone has their favorite recipe for deviled eggs! But when you’re ready for something different, I hope you’ll consider my herb-kissed version. Rather than the more traditional tangy and sweet or hot and spicy, these deviled eggs are fragrant with fresh chives, dill and marjoram. While you could use dried herbs, fresh herbs bring a spring green, almost floral scent to these eggs. 

After “hard-boiling” my eggs for decades, I’ve made the leap to steaming them, which renders eggs that are more easily peeled and prepped to be filled with this glorious mix. It is so simple! 

Eggs are nutritional superfoods! A single egg has only 78 calories, 6 grams of protein, and 5 grams of fat. Plus, eggs contain all 9 essential amino acids. Eggs are rich in iron, phosphorus, selenium, and vitamins A, B12, B2, and B5. The added bonus is that one egg has about 113 mg of choline, an important nutrient for forming memories in the brain.

Egg yolks concentrate “carotenoids”, the bright red, yellow and orange pigments from plants. The yellow color of the yolk is due to lutein and zeaxanthin, which migrates to the retina to protect against blindness from macular degeneration and damage by UV rays. 

Organic, free-range eggs, hatched from chickens that roam grassy fields have a much higher concentration of these beneficial compounds than the poor factory-farmed chickens that live in caged, indoor warehouses where they’re fed pellets instead of grass and worms!

And, although eggs cannot be tolerated by everyone, consuming one egg per day does not appear to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, according to a new study and meta-analysis led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Other studies suggest up to two eggs per day pose no risk of heart disease in diabetics. Enjoy in good health!

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