Salad Nicoise

Description

This French-inspired salad makes a delightful summer dish. You can dress it up with other garden vegetables like corn, blanched broccoli, cauliflower and asparagus!

Ingredients

  • ½ pound new potatoes, quartered
  • ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley
  • ¼ cup pitted nicoise olives
  • ½ onion, thinly sliced
  • 1 (5 ounce) can tuna
  • ⅓ pound fresh green beans – rinsed, trimmed and blanched
  • ½ pound mixed salad greens
  • 1 cup lemon vinaigrette
  • 3 hard-cooked eggs, quartered
  • 3 roma (plum) tomatoes, thinly sliced
  • 1 tablespoon capers
  • 4 anchovy filets

Instructions

  1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes
  2. and cook until tender but still firm
  3. about 15 minutes. Drain and cool.
  4. In a large bowl
  5. combine the potatoes
  6. parsley
  7. olives
  8. onion
  9. tuna and green beans. Refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours.
  10. In large bowl
  11. toss greens with vinaigrette and top with chilled potato mixture. Garnish with eggs
  12. tomatoes
  13. capers and anchovies.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 15 mins

Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins

Servings: 4

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