When Life Hands You Egg Yolks...
...you can't make lemonade. Every home baker or egg white omelet eater has had an egg imbalance at some point. Whether you have a single excess egg yolk or dozens, there are wonderful recipes you can make with them.
This lens describes how to use up egg yolks.
With one extra egg yolk you can make...
Savory uses for one extra yolk
1 egg plus 1 egg yolk is almost all you need to make cheese ravioli!
One egg yolk will thicken a scant half cup of liquid. Make yourself some pasta with a cream sauce.
Sweet uses for one egg yolk
Feel like something cold? Chocolate Cinnamon Parfait makes quick use of a single egg yolk.
If you're feeling a little adventurous, try using your one extra egg yolk in Clotilde's Roasted flour squeeze cookies.
Make a Sweet Cookie Tart Crust. Recipe here. Once made, this one yolk crust can be cooled and frozen for use later. It (and its variations) is the base for a dozen of the mind numbingly good tarts in The Pie and Pastry Bible
. This tart crust is very flexible - use it as the base for any fruit or custard tart.
1 egg plus 1 egg yolk is almost all you need to make cheese ravioli!
One egg yolk will thicken a scant half cup of liquid. Make yourself some pasta with a cream sauce.
Sweet uses for one egg yolk
Feel like something cold? Chocolate Cinnamon Parfait makes quick use of a single egg yolk.
If you're feeling a little adventurous, try using your one extra egg yolk in Clotilde's Roasted flour squeeze cookies.
Make a Sweet Cookie Tart Crust. Recipe here. Once made, this one yolk crust can be cooled and frozen for use later. It (and its variations) is the base for a dozen of the mind numbingly good tarts in The Pie and Pastry Bible
. This tart crust is very flexible - use it as the base for any fruit or custard tart. Two yolks will get you...
How to use up two egg yolks
With two egg yolks to use up, you have choices.
Savory
How about some homemade mayonnaise? This recipe uses exactly two yolks, the resulting mayonnaise will keep for a week. If you've never made mayo, you might be surprised at how easy and tasty it is.
Wondering how to use up egg yolks and get breakfast ready? How about whole wheat cottage cheese pancakes?
Sweet
Make an Easy Lemon Pie With just two egg yolks, a pie crust, and two other ingredients, it's certainly easy!
Savory
How about some homemade mayonnaise? This recipe uses exactly two yolks, the resulting mayonnaise will keep for a week. If you've never made mayo, you might be surprised at how easy and tasty it is.
Wondering how to use up egg yolks and get breakfast ready? How about whole wheat cottage cheese pancakes?
Sweet
Make an Easy Lemon Pie With just two egg yolks, a pie crust, and two other ingredients, it's certainly easy!
How to use up egg yolks without breaking a sweat - 3 yolks
It's really starting to get good. You'll wish you had more yolks to use!
With three egg yolks, it won't be difficult to find something you'll be happy to make.
Savory
Hollandaise Sauce is a great use for 3 egg yolks. Don't know what to do with hollandaise? Pour it over green beans or asparagus, fish, or eggs benedict.
Bernaise sauce is another great flexible sauce made with three yolks.
A Greek style bechemel will use up 3 egg yolks, easy. This sauce tops moussaka, stuffed eggplant or zucchini, and pastitsio.
Sweet
Have a sweet tooth, a crockpot, and three egg yolks? Try Christmas bread pudding.
Three yolks is all you need to make Pastry Cream. Fill eclairs, napoleons, or a pastry crust and top it with fruit. Truthfully, it's good enough just with the fruit.
The absolute best way to use 3 egg yolks is to make hazelnut ice cream. For a hazelnut lover, it's heaven! If you don't have an ice cream maker yet, I love my Donvier Ice Cream Maker
. It's not too big, easy to use, easy to clean, and absolutely silent.
Savory
Hollandaise Sauce is a great use for 3 egg yolks. Don't know what to do with hollandaise? Pour it over green beans or asparagus, fish, or eggs benedict.
Bernaise sauce is another great flexible sauce made with three yolks.
A Greek style bechemel will use up 3 egg yolks, easy. This sauce tops moussaka, stuffed eggplant or zucchini, and pastitsio.
Sweet
Have a sweet tooth, a crockpot, and three egg yolks? Try Christmas bread pudding.
Three yolks is all you need to make Pastry Cream. Fill eclairs, napoleons, or a pastry crust and top it with fruit. Truthfully, it's good enough just with the fruit.
The absolute best way to use 3 egg yolks is to make hazelnut ice cream. For a hazelnut lover, it's heaven! If you don't have an ice cream maker yet, I love my Donvier Ice Cream Maker
. It's not too big, easy to use, easy to clean, and absolutely silent. How to use up 4 egg yolks
With 4 egg yolks, you can make some yummy stuff.
Savory
1 3/4 cups of mayonnaise is yours for the making if you have 4 medium yolks.
Nobu's recipe for Asparagus and Salmon Roe with egg sauce is a fancy way to get the most from your yolks.
Sweet uses for extra egg yolks
My favorite use for 4 (or 8!) egg yolks is lemon curd, and my favorite lemon curd recipe comes from The Pie and Pastry Bible.
French chocolate mousse will use up 4 egg yolks with a flourish.
How about Icebox Butter Cookies?
Tiramisu Cake is a bit time consuming, but your egg yolks will be put to good use!
No sweet tooth but still love your carbs? Italian Easter bread will put those 4 yolks to good use.
Savory
1 3/4 cups of mayonnaise is yours for the making if you have 4 medium yolks.
Nobu's recipe for Asparagus and Salmon Roe with egg sauce is a fancy way to get the most from your yolks.
Sweet uses for extra egg yolks
My favorite use for 4 (or 8!) egg yolks is lemon curd, and my favorite lemon curd recipe comes from The Pie and Pastry Bible
.French chocolate mousse will use up 4 egg yolks with a flourish.
How about Icebox Butter Cookies?
Tiramisu Cake is a bit time consuming, but your egg yolks will be put to good use!
No sweet tooth but still love your carbs? Italian Easter bread will put those 4 yolks to good use.
Recipes to use up 5 egg yolks
5 yolks and 9 whole eggs gets you the top-rated Soft Egg Ravioli.
Uses for 8 extra egg yolks
Avgolemono is Greek for egg lemon and in Greek cuisine, it is a soup and a sauce with varied uses. This recipe for avgolemono soup will use up 8 yolks!
