With creamy egg salad topped with pickled veggies, fresh herbs, and slices of jalapeño pepper on a fresh baguette, this Bahn Mi-Inspired Egg Salad is an unusual (but delicious!) twist on egg salad. It might be unusual, but it’s seriously the best egg salad sandwich I’ve ever had!
These egg salad sandwiches are inspired by the oh-so delicious Vietnamese sandwich that’s typically made with meat (or sometimes tofu), meat pâté, pickled veggies, jalapeños, and fresh herbs all piled on a perfectly chewy-yet-soft-inside-yet-crunchy-outside baguette. But instead of meat or tofu, this one’s stuffed with egg salad. Obvious choice, right?
I know, not obvious.
Here’s how I came up with the idea.
Our local Vietnamese restaurant has delicious banh mi sandwiches. I get mine with tofu, my guy gets his with chicken or pork. But they also top every sandwich with a fried egg. Which sort of threw me for a loop at first, but then, I dug it. A lot.
So when it came time for me to finally try my hand at banh mi at home, something in me was screaming “Egg! Egg!” And then I came to the egg salad place and thought, hmm, that just might work and then we tried it all topped with Sriracha and it was glorious and the end.
I arrive at my recipe ideas in the most elegant fashion, as you can see. 😉
So yep. Egg Salad Banh Mi. Cringe if you must, but by now you know I was not going for authentic – I was just going for something fun. A delicious vegetarian banh mi situation + a little spin on egg salad. A veggie-laden egg salad inside a perfectly crunchy-crusted baguette, topped with a pile of quick-pickled veggies …
… and then loaded up with fresh herbs in true banh-mi fashion. And THEN drizzled with Sriracha sauce because hello, Sriracha sauce.
Basically, this is the best egg salad sandwich I’ve ever had. Possibly the messiest, but also the best.
Oh, and one nice thing about this one is that you can prep the veggies and make the egg salad ahead of time. So then all you have left to do is slice the bread, toast it if you want, and assemble. And, of course, eat!