Salade Niçoise Tastes of the Mediterranean
David Scott Allen · Provencal Recipes · Salad · TasteOne has to admit that salade composée rolls off the tongue slightly better than “meal-sized salad.”
The salad Niçoise might just be the foundation for thousands (or is it millions?) of fully-loaded meals with a few greens, but nothing compares with the flavours of Nice artfully arranged on a plate. David explores the perfect hard-boiled egg and his variation of salad Niçoise in his recipe below. For the original Cocoa & Lavender blog post click here.
Salade Niçoise
A lovely collection of fresh potatoes, tomatoes, olives, beans, herbs, and tuna on a delightful bed of crisp green lettuce dressed with a light and tangy vinaigrette and anchovy filets.
Ingredients
- 1 head leaf lettuce, leaves separated washed and patted dry
- 2 6.5 oz cans tuna packed in olive oil
- 1/2 lb haricots verts blanched in salted water, then chilled
- 12 new potatoes cooked whole and chilled
- 24 grape tomatoes
- 4 hard-boiled eggs quartered
- 24 pitted kalamata olives (we can never find Niçoise olives!)
- 4 tsp non-pareil capers
- 4 basil leaves cut in chiffonade (very thin strips)
- 2 tbsp flat-leaf (Italian) parsley fresh, chopped
- 8 anchovy filets
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
- Salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Arrange lettuce leaves on 4 dinner plates.
- Divide the tuna into 4 portions and place on one side of each plate.
- Arrange the green beans, potatoes (halved or quartered), grape tomatoes (halved, if desired), hard-boiled eggs and olives around the tuna, then sprinkle with capers, basil and parsley.
- Top with 2 anchovy filets per salad.
- Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper.
- Drizzle over the salad and serve.
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After a big Thanksgiving dinner, a salade Niçoise sounds perfect right now!