Easy Niçoise Salad

NO SAD SALADS Episode 2: Salade Niçoise is a French staple made with basic ingredients like canned tuna, tomatoes and potatoes and a simple anchovy vinaigrette 🍅🥔🥬🫒

It’s known as a composed salad, meaning the ingredients are arranged neatly rather than tossed together

Ingredients

Salad
– 2-3 small or medium potatoes, or 8-10 mini potatoes, peeled and cut into large pieces
– 2 large eggs
– 15-20 green beans
– 1 head romaine, thinly sliced and washed well
– 1 large tomato, cut into wedges or sliced
– ½ cup cucumber, halved and sliced
– ¼ cup olives, sliced or quartered (Niçoise olives are best if you can find them)
– 2 cans tuna, drained (in oil is best, but in water works)
– Salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste

Vinaigrette
– ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil
– ¼ cup red wine vinegar
– ½ tsp anchovy paste
– ½ tsp Dijon mustard, optional
– Salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste

Instructions

Bring two medium saucepans of water to a boil and prepare an ice bath
In the first, add the potatoes and season with salt
In the second, add the green beans and blanch for 1 min then transfer to the ice bath
Cook potatoes until fork tender, about 10-15 mins, then drain and transfer to the ice bath
Hard boil the eggs: you can do this in the air fryer at 300℉ for 15 mins or boil them in the same saucepan as the green beans
Transfer the boiled eggs to an ice bath; when cooled, tap the end to crack, gently roll then return to the water to peel (this makes peeling them super easy)
To make the vinaigrette, blend or whisk together all ingredients until smooth
In a large bowl, toss the romaine with ¾ of the vinaigrette
To assemble, add the dressed lettuce to two large bowls, then quarter the eggs
Arrange the eggs, potatoes and tomatoes around the bowl and season with salt and freshly cracked black pepper
Place the tuna in the center then top with the cucumber slices, green beans and olives
Drizzle the remaining ¼ of the dressing over the salads and serve

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