This Egg Salad with Spinach is a little bit healthier thanks to the addition of Greek yogurt and spinach... But it also involves two kinds of cheese for extra deliciousness!

Overhead view of a slice of whole wheat toast with egg salad with spinach and feta on it with more egg salad in background and recipe title at top of image

(This recipe for Egg Salad with Spinach and Feta was originally published in July 2010, but was updated with new photos and content in 2020).

One food I'll never ever get sick of is egg salad. I could happily eat it plain with mayo for all the rest of my days. But one of the most beautiful things about egg salad is all the different things you can do with it. And trust me, I've done a lot of different things with it (wait, does that sound dirty??)

Really, I've made egg salad in a thousand different ways and I'm sure I'll come up with a thousand more variations of it in the future. This time, I health-ified it just a bit... But also added cheese to it... So I guess it all kind of evened out?

Ingredients in (Kinda Sorta) Healthier Egg Salad

Of course, you can adjust anything in this egg salad to your preferences, but if you're following this recipe precisely, here's what I added to mine:

6 hardboiled eggs
⅓ cup crumbled feta cheese
¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
⅓ cup Greek yogurt
½ cup frozen spinach (thawed and drained)
Salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes

If you want to make this egg salad even healthier, you can leave out some of the egg yolks and just use the whites. Obviously you could also leave out the cheese, but then it wouldn't be egg salad with spinach AND feta!

If you don't like the tang of Greek yogurt, you can replace with mayo or you can do half Greek yogurt and half mayo. That's what I do in this easy tarragon chicken salad.

How to Hard Boil Eggs

This recipe calls for 6 hardboiled eggs and I know many people have their own favorite way for hard boiling them. I personally love using my Instant Pot with the 3-3-3 method (cook at pressure for 3 minutes, let the pressure release naturally for 3 minutes before releasing remaining pressure, and then place in an ice bath for 3 minutes before peeling... Peeling right after hard boiling is always easiest!).

If you don't have an Instant Pot and are looking for an easy fail-proof way to hard boil eggs, I recommend using this guide from Simply Recipes.

How to Make Egg Salad with Spinach and Feta

It's pretty simple actually... Just roughly chop the eggs and mix all of your ingredients together and you're done!

Overhead view of bowl with chopped hardboiled eggs, spinach, Greek yogurt, feta, parmesan, and spices

All of that spinach makes this egg salad a whole lot prettier than the typical egg salad. And it gets a nice dose of greens into your day.

Overhead view of bowl with egg salad ingredients all mixed together

You can eat the egg salad straight out of the bowl (especially great if you're watching your carbs!) or you can put it on a slice of toasted whole wheat bread (my personal favorite way to eat egg salad with spinach).

I also love eating egg salad with crackers and will occasionally even spoon some onto a bed of lettuce.

Overhead close-up view of a piece of whole wheat toast with egg salad with spinach and feta on it

I'm not going to tell you that you won't miss the mayo at all with this egg salad because you very well might. But I personally think the actual eggs are the best part of egg salad and I love how they shine here along with the Greek yogurt tang.

I also enjoy the fact that the spinach isn't "hidden" into the egg salad and can also be detected... In a delicious way Don't worry; the cheese is very much there too and adds a nice little punch of flavor.

Landscape overhead view of a slice of whole wheat bread with egg salad with spinach and feta on it

This egg salad with spinach and feta has been my lunch of choice lately and is the kind of lunch I'll never get tired of.

And if I do? I'll just switch up the ingredients involved and come up with another egg salad recipe. As long as there are hardboiled eggs involved, I'm a happy girl!

Overhead view of a slice of whole wheat toast with egg salad with spinach and feta on it with more egg salad in background

Do you add anything special when you make egg salad?

If you're looking for more egg salad recipes, check out my Avocado Egg Salad with Spinach and my Egg Salad with Lots of Crunch. I also love this Tuna Egg Salad from Here to Cook!

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