Don't just decorate eggs this Easter weekend — try a new dish, says B.C. chef

As Easter approaches, kids and adults alike volition get crafty, decorating eggs with spring-time colours and hunting for egg-shaped goodies successful the gait (weather-permitting).

B.C.'s Chef Dez is encouraging British Columbians to instrumentality this egg-cellent accidental to adhd eggs to meals successful ways that whitethorn not seem obvious, and see utilizing them much often arsenic an affordable, highly nutritious protein. 

"They're conscionable truthful good balanced," helium said.

B.C. Egg, a non-profit that manages the province's ovum farming industry, estimates an mean ovum has astir 80 calories, 6.5 grams of macromolecule and 9 amino acids. 

Amanda Brittain of B.C. Egg told CBC News earlier this month that increases successful the price of eggs successful the province have been much smaller than successful the U.S. owed to Canada's supply absorption system.

Since the opening of 2024, much than 70 cardinal laying hens were affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, oregon vertebrate flu) successful the U.S., moving retired to astir 19 per cent of U.S. production, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 

While avian flu has been reported successful B.C. flocks, it hasn't had rather arsenic large an interaction successful the province, Brittain said.

Dez, a Red Seal cook and corporate cook for B.C. Egg, said determination are astir 149 ovum farms successful B.C. producing millions of eggs each year. 

"Every azygous 1 of those is household owned and operated, truthful elbows up, we're each astir supporting Canadian," helium said. "We tin instrumentality this 1 measurement further by speechmaking the statement connected your carton of eggs and marque definite you're supporting section farmers present successful British Columbia."

Chef Dez said helium incorporates eggs into a batch of meals, adding fried eggs to burgers and sandwiches and on apical of pizza and pasta, boiled eggs connected salads, and poached eggs with vegetables, among different things. 

"They are truthful versatile," helium said. "You tin usage them successful astir immoderate application, you cognize you tin find them anywhere."

Dez shared immoderate of his favourite ovum recipes with CBC News:

Ramen successful a Hurry

• 4 cups beef broth
• 2 ail cloves, minced
• 1 tbsp grated oregon minced ginger
• 1 to 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 tbsp sambal oelek
• 2 100-gram packs of noodles (discard the seasoning packets)
• 2 tbsp canola oil
• 8 to 10 bladed slices of pork tenderloin
• 2 ample eggs
• ¾ cupful legume sprouts
• 2 greenish onions, thinly sliced astatine a 45-degree angle
• 1 tiny saccharine reddish pepper, thinly sliced into rings
• Nori, cut into a fistful of tiny strips

In a mean pot, adhd the broth, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, atom vinegar, and sambal oelek. Bring to a boil implicit precocious heat, and past trim the vigor to simmer uncovered for 5 minutes, past summation the vigor to bring to a boil and adhd the noodles. Cook for 3 minutes. 

Meanwhile, vigor a mean cookware implicit medium/high vigor until hot. Add the lipid to the cookware and fry the pork slices until cooked and crispy. Remove the pork from the pan, but permission the residual oil, and acceptable aside.

Crack the eggs into the cookware and fry without flipping them. Once they are half-set, poke the yolk and proceed to navigator until the bottoms of the eggs are crispy. Remove the eggs from the cookware and acceptable aside.

Divide the noodles and broth arsenic betwixt 2 ample bowls. Top with the crispy pork slices, crispy eggs, legume sprouts, greenish onions, reddish pepper, and nori.

Lemon Zabaglione

• 4 ample ovum yolks
• ¼ cup achromatic sugar
• Pinch of salt
• ¼ cup limoncello liqueur
• 1 tbsp fresh citrus juice
• Fresh berries

Bring 2 to 3 inches of h2o to a boil successful a medium-sized pot.

Place the ovum yolks successful a medium-sized stainless alloy mixing vessel on with the sweetener and a pinch of salt. Whisk vigorously for 2 to 3 minutes until the substance is heavy and airy yellowish successful colour. Then vigorously whisk successful the citrus liqueur and the citrus foodstuff until thoroughly combined.

Reduce the vigor to bring the h2o to a simmer and spot the vessel connected apical of this cookware portion making definite that the vessel does not interaction the water. Whisk perpetually implicit the simmering h2o until the substance reaches a somesthesia of 145 F to 150 F and becomes heavy and frothy.

Remove from the vigor and spoon into tiny dessert dishes and service warm, oregon chill somewhat to country somesthesia and service with caller berries.

Cajun Shrimp Egg Salad Sandwiches

• 300 g earthy prawns (16/20 size oregon smaller), peeled and deveined
• ⅓ cup minced onion
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• ½ tsp dried oregano
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp ground achromatic pepper
• ¼ tsp ground cayenne pepper
• 2 tsp canola oil, divided
• ¾ cupful mayonnaise
• ¼ cupful tiny diced celery
• ¼ cupful tiny diced reddish doorbell pepper
• 2 tbsp finely chopped caller chives
• 2 tbsp sweet greenish relish
• 1 tbsp dill pickle juice
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 3 to 4 dashes Tabasco marque blistery sauce
• 6 large hard-boiled eggs, chilled, peeled and astir chopped
• Salt and capsicum to taste
• 4 4-inch brioche buns, chopped successful fractional horizontally

Cut the prawns into tiny pieces, if desired. Combine the prawns successful a tiny vessel with the minced onion, paprika, oregano, ½ spoon salt, ½ spoon achromatic pepper, cayenne pepper, and 1 spoon of canola oil.

Heat a 10-inch non-stick frying cookware implicit medium-high heat. Add the remaining spoon of canola oil, and past the prawn mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until the prawns are cooked through, for astir 2 minutes. Transfer cooked prawn substance to a shallow tray and refrigerate instantly to chill.

In a mean mixing bowl, harvester the mayonnaise, celery, doorbell pepper, chives, relish, pickle juice, citrus juice, and Tabasco together. Stir successful the chilled chopped hard-boiled eggs and the chilled prawn mixture. Season to sensation with brackish and pepper.

Portion substance arsenic onto the 4 prepared buns and serve.

Egg and Quinoa Power Bowls

• 2 cups rootlike broth
• 1 cupful adust quinoa
• ½ tsp salt
• 4 babe saccharine reddish peppers, sliced (or 2 cups chopped reddish doorbell peppers)
• 540 ml tin chickpeas, drained, and rinsed
• 2 cups shredded cabbage
• 40 grape tomatoes
• 4 mini cucumbers, sliced (or 2 cups sliced cucumbers)
• 4 large, hard-boiled eggs, peeled (sliced successful halves oregon chopped)
• Handful of caller babe spinach leaves, sliced thin
• ½ small reddish onion, sliced thin
• 1 cupful walnut halves
• 2 cups caller blueberries (or thawed, drained from frozen)
• Kosher brackish oregon different axenic finishing salt, to season
• Fresh cracked pepper, to season

Dressing

• 6 tbsp extra virgin avocado oil
• ¼ cupful earthy unfiltered pome cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp whole atom mustard (seed mustard)

Combine 2 cups rootlike broth, 1 cupful quinoa, and ½ spoon brackish successful a mean pot. Bring to a boil implicit precocious heat, past crook down to medium-low vigor and navigator uncovered until each the broth is gone, stirring occasionally. Remove from the vigor and chill oregon support astatine country temperature.

In 4 large-diameter, shallow bowls, put adjacent amounts of the pursuing successful each bowl, moving clockwise: cooked quinoa, saccharine reddish peppers, chickpeas, cabbage, grape tomatoes, and cucumbers. The bottommost of the vessel should beryllium wholly covered with these ingredients.

Arrange the pursuing ingredients successful adjacent amounts connected apical of the bottommost ingredients: eggs, spinach, reddish onion, walnuts, blueberries, kosher salt, and caller cracked pepper.

Combine the dressing ingredients unneurotic thoroughly. Drizzle 3 tablespoons of the dressing connected each bowl.