Easter Potato Nests With Hard Boiled Eggs

These Easter Potato Nests include a crispy, golden potato crust with a lemony yogurt filling and a garnish of hard boiled egg and parsley. They make a wonderful appetizer; all of the components can be made ahead of time and assembled for serving.

To make the potato nests, you make a potato mixture of shredded potatoes, egg, salt, pepper, and flour. Then, the potato mixture gets divided between five muffin cups before being baked in the oven. Once baked, the cups get filled with a yogurt mixture that is flavored with lemon, garlic, parsley, olive oil, salt, and pepper before being divided between the potato cups and garnished with hard-boiled egg. While these are great as appetizers, you could also serve a few of them as part of a lunch with a tossed green salad.

What are Potato Nests?

These potato nests are basically nests that are formed by pressing a shredded potato mixture into muffin cups before they are baked in the oven. The crust includes both flour and egg, which helps bind the grated potatoes together. Then, once baked the crusts are cooled before they are filled with yogurt. The yogurt mixture includes lemon zest, parsley, and garlic for a savory and lemony contrast. Finally, each potato nest gets a garnish of hard boiled egg halves, which pair beautifully with the creamy yogurt and crispy crust!

Pro Tips

• Once the potatoes are shredded, squeeze them dry with paper towels to remove any excess moisture. Extra moisture may hinder how the potato mixture forms into a crust.
• You could easily scale up the recipe if you need to make more than five potato nests.
• If you don’t have any parsley on hand, feel free to replace it with other herbs such as dill, tarragon, or chives.
• You can use whatever type of yogurt you prefer as long as it is unflavored. Greek yogurt is particularly good as it is incredibly thick and creamy.
• Feel free to modify the flavors in the yogurt filling by adding other ingredients like sriracha, other types of herbs like cilantro, minced ginger, lime zest, and more.

What to Serve with Potato Nests?

These potato nests can be served with a crisp white wine or sparkling wine for a delicious appetizer. Alternatively, if you would like to serve them as a lunch, you could pair them with a green salad to round out your meal.

How Do You Cook Hard Boiled Eggs?

To cook hard boiled eggs, place them in a pot of cold water and bring them to a boil. Then, once they are boiling, allow them to cook for 7 minutes. After that, remove them from the heat to allow them to sit in the hot water for 10 minutes. Once you remove them from the water, you can rinse them with cold water to cool them down before peeling and halving them.

What Type of Potatoes Should I Use for Potato Nests?

Russet potatoes, Yukon Gold potatoes, or white potatoes would all work well in this recipe as they shred easily and crisp up nicely in the oven.

What Type of Yogurt Should I Use?

You can use any plain yogurt in this recipe, but something thicker like Greek yogurt will work particularly well. Other types of yogurt that aren’t strained will be quite runny and may spill out of the potato nests easily.

How to Store Potato Nests

These potato nests are best assembled just before serving. However, you can make all of the components ahead of time and refrigerate them in separate containers. They should keep for up to 3 days.

How to Make Easter Potato Nests

Step 1

Step 1

Shred the potatoes. Rinse them and pat them dry with paper towels.

Shred the potatoes. Rinse them and pat them dry with paper towels.

Step 2

Step 2

In a bowl, mix the potatoes with the egg, salt, pepper, and flour until combined. Divide the potato mixture between five greased muffin cups (about 1 tbsp in each).

In a bowl, mix the potatoes with the egg, salt, pepper, and flour until combined. Divide the potato mixture between five greased muffin cups (about 1 tbsp in each).

Step 3

Step 3

Press the mixture up the sides to form a crust. Bake them in a 375 F/190 C oven for 35 minutes. Allow them to cool before removing them from the cups. In a bowl, mix the yogurt with the garlic, lemon zest, olive oil, parsley, salt, and pepper until combined.

Press the mixture up the sides to form a crust. Bake them in a 375 F/190 C oven for 35 minutes. Allow them to cool before removing them from the cups. In a bowl, mix the yogurt with the garlic, lemon zest, olive oil, parsley, salt, and pepper until combined.

Step 4

Step 4

Divide the mixture between the potato nests. Garnish each potato nest with two egg halves and some parsley, and serve them immediately!

Divide the mixture between the potato nests. Garnish each potato nest with two egg halves and some parsley, and serve them immediately!