12- Minute Hard Boiled Eggs

Nicolestastingspoon

3 years ago

Want to make hard boiled eggs? With this fool proof method you get bright yellow yolks and easy to peel off egg shells.

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The Secrets for 12-Minute Hard Boiled Eggs

If you have time to wait, it’s best to have your eggs at room temperature – this will help the yolk to set up in the center and the shell is less likely to crack, so if you’re planning on color- dying the eggs, try to plan ahead.
Organic brown eggs are the easiest to peel, don’t worry this method also works for white eggs.
Have a large enough pot, filled up with water, so that your eggs are fully submerged.
Start with boiling water. Bring the water up to a hard boil, with rumbling bubbles.
Have an ice bath ready. In a large bowl add a ton of ice and cold water. The key is to shock them so they stop cooking immediately and it helps make the egg shell peel off.

Hard boiled eggs in 12-minutes! With this fool proof method you get perfectly bright yellow yolks and easy to peel off egg shells.

Course Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword easy recipe, healthy, snack

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 12

Total Time 17

Calories

Fill a large pot up with water and bring it to a hard boil.
Using a slotted spoon carefully lower the eggs into the pot of boiling water.
Let it boil and cook for 12 minutes.
As the eggs cook, prepare an ice bath, in a large bowl add a ton of ice and cold water.
After 12 minutes, use your slotted spoon and remove the eggs and place in the ice bath.
Once cooled, take out of the ice bath. Store in the refrigerator.

For the Easter Holiday, if you want to dye eggs but you don’t want to make a dozen hard boiled eggs, we always buy fake eggs to keep the fun going.