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French · Salad

Salade Niçoise

A main-course composed salad: wine-dressed French potato salad in a bowl lined with lettuce, arranged with green beans, tomatoes, tuna, olives, eggs and anchovies and moistened with a mustardy vinaigrette.

  • Yield6 to 8 main-course servings
  • Hands-on45 min
  • Total1 h 23 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Vinaigrette

  • 60 mlgood wine vinegar (or part lemon juice)
  • ½ tspsalt
  • ½ tspdry mustard powder
  • 240 mlolive oil
  • to tastefreshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tbspshallot, mincedoptional

Potato salad

  • 450 gwaxy boiling potatoes, unpeeled
  • 1 tbspdry white wine or dry white vermouth
  • 1 tbspchicken bouillon
  • 1 tbspshallots or spring onions, minced
  • 1½ tbspflat-leaf parsley, minced

Salad

  • 350 ggreen beans, trimmed
  • 3ripe tomatoes, quartered
  • 1 headbutterhead (Boston) lettuce, leaves separated, washed and dried
  • 70 gpitted black olives, preferably dry-cured Mediterranean
  • 3large eggs
  • 12canned anchovy fillets, drained
  • 225 gcanned tuna, drained
  • 2 tbspfresh herbs (parsley, basil or chives), chopped

Contains

  • Egg
  • Soy
  • Fish
  • Mustard
  • Celery
  • Sulfites
  • Birds' eggs (any)
  • Tuna
  • Anchovy
  • Legumes (any)
  • Common beans (kidney, black, pinto, navy...)
  • Olive
  • Grapes
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Tomato
  • Potato (white)
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Shallot
  • Chives
  • Cabbage family (any)
  • Lettuce
  • Carrot
  • Basil
  • Oregano
  • Thyme
  • Rosemary
  • Sage
  • Marjoram
  • Parsley
  • Dill
  • Tarragon
  • Savory
  • Black and white pepper
  • Poultry and birds (any)
  • Chicken
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
  • Alcohol

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Sour / bright
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh

Texture

  • Crisp

Equipment

  • Stovetop

Season

  • Summer

Occasion

  • Weeknight
  • Entertaining

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • 1–3 hours total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Needs advance prep

Nutrition

  • Calories: high
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: moderate
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: moderate
  • Sodium: high

Budget

  • Budget: moderate

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