Baked Deviled Eggs

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Baked Deviled Eggs

Recipe from Suzanne Hall, Food Editor, The Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Deviled eggs are traditional picnic fare, but in this recipe, shared by a Chattanooga cooking teacher, they get a classy touch for brunch or supper.  The eggs are good served over rice, toasted English muffins or waffles.  For a fancier dish, serve them in puff pastry shells.  However you serve them, they are quick, easy and tasty.

Serves 6 to 8

6 hard-cooked eggs
1 cup plus 3 tablespoons dairy sour cream
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 can (10-3/4 oz.) condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup, undiluted
1/4 cup chopped pimento
1/2 cup grated Cheddar cheese

Peel eggs; cut in half, lengthwise.  Remove yolks; reserve whites.  

Mash yolks, blend in 3 tablespoons sour cream, mustard & salt.  Filled reserved egg whites with yolk mixture.  

Heat butter in a medium saucepan.  Add onion and bell pepper; saute' until tender.  Remove from heat.  Stir in mushroom soup, pimento and remaining 1 cup sour cream; mix well.

Pour half of the soup mixture into a shallow 1-1/2 quart baking dish.  Arrange filled eggs, cut-side up, in a single layer over the soup mixture.  Pour remaining soup mixture over eggs.  Top with cheese.  Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven 20 minutes, or until heated through.  Let stand 5 minutes before serving.  Serve over hot cooked rice, toasted English muffins halves, waffles or puff pastry shells.