Low-Carb and High Protein Avocado Egg Salad

Ingredients

• 6 boiled eggs
• 1 cup cottage cheese, rinsed with cold water and drained
• 1 cup sliced celery
• 1/2 cup sliced green onions, white and green parts
• 2 avocados, peeled and diced
• 1 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice, for tossing with avocado
• Salt to taste, for salting avocado
• Fresh-ground black pepper and salt to taste for seasoning finished salad
• 1/2 cup mayo
• 1 T Dijon mustard
• 1 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp. dried dill weed
• 1/2 tsp. celery seed

Directions

1. Cook 6 hard-boiled eggs using whatever method you like best. Cool them down with cold water, then leave them until they are easy to handle.
2. While the eggs are cooking and cooling, measure the cottage cheese, 1 cup, into a fine-mesh strainer. Rinse it with very cold water, then let it drain really well.
3. In a small bowl, whisk the mayo with the Dijon, lemon juice, dried dill weed, and celery seed until you have a smooth dressing.
4. Cut up the celery and green onions.
5. Once the eggs are cool, peel them. Cut each egg lengthwise into quarters, then slice the quarters into pieces.
6. Remove the avocado peel and cut the avocado into dice.
7. Transfer the diced avocado to a bowl roomy enough for the whole salad. Add 1 T lemon juice and a generous sprinkle of salt, then toss gently.
8. Add the chopped egg, drained cottage cheese, sliced celery, and sliced green onion.
9. Gently fold the salad ingredients together. Add the dressing and fold again, still gently, until everything is coated. If mayo is not your favorite thing, do not feel obligated to use all the dressing; start with part of it, then add more until the salad is as moist as you want.
10. Taste the salad and season it with salt and fresh-ground black pepper.
11. You can serve the salad right away or chill it first. It can sit in the fridge overnight, but with avocado involved, think short-term rather than planning much past 1 day.
12. Serve the egg salad over lettuce, tucked into lettuce wraps, inside low-carb pita bread, wrapped in a low-carb tortilla, on regular bread as a sandwich, or any other way that sounds good.