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Vegetable Salads

Niçoise Salad with Tuna

4 servings
Pescatarian diet, France Boiling, Cold Cuisine

The combination of vegetables, potatoes, tuna, eggs, and lots of other flavorful ingredients make this salad a great complete meal.

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Chef Tom Chef Tom Founder
November 16, 2023
  • 30 min.
  • 30 min.
  • 1/5
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Ingredients:

Salad ingredients:

Optional final touch:

* I prefer the combination of baby spinach, kale, and iceberg lettuce, but you can’t go wrong with any other mix too. Thoroughly clean and rip/chop or buy a ready-to-go bag of your favorite lettuce.

Tools:

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Best served with:

Herb Baguette

Directions:

1. Potato preparation & cooking:

1.1.

1.1. Rinse potatoes under cold water.

1.2.

Then peel (or leave unpeeled as you wish).

1.3.

Dice to uniform dices (size about 3/8”).

1.4.

Place into a medium pot and then fill the pot with water (about 1” above the level of the vegetables).

1.5.

Cover the pot with a lid and place on a high heat burner. Bring to a boil.

1.6.

Lower heat to medium and boil until fully cooked (about 12 – 15 minutes). Take one out and taste to make sure it is done.

1.7.

Drain the water by pouring over a colander and place on a baking sheet to totally cool.

1.8.

Place into a larger mixing bowl.

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2. Beans & eggs preparation:

2.1.

Cook green beans (3 – 4 minutes in boiling water) and add into a larger mixing bowl.

2.2.

Cook and peel hardboiled cooked eggs (10 minutes in boiling water). Cut into halves and place aside for later steps.

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3. Mix salad:

3.1. Add into the large mixing bowl:

½ LB of baby tomatoes – cut in half
4 OZ of loose leaf lettuce mixture
2 OZ  of arugula
½ of a shallot – finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic – grated
Juice from 1 lemon
1 cup of tuna
¼ cup of capers – finely chopped
10 fillets of anchovies – finely chopped
4 TBSP of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
½ TSP of ground pepper
½ TSP of salt

Thoroughly, but gently mix together with a spatula.

3.2.

Taste and add additional olive oil, salt and pepper if needed.

4. Final phase:

4.1. Place a mixed salad on a large platter and top the salad with the following ingredients (or create 4 individual portions each topped with ¼ of the following ingredients):

Hardboiled eggs – cut into halve
1 cup of Kalamata olives

4.2.

Sprinkle with parmesan shavings and freshly ground salt and pepper.

4.3.

Optionally serve with one piece of an herb baguette.

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