Nicoise salad. Put the potatoes in a medium saucepan; cover with cold water and season with salt. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Drain and cool. *Marinate tuna steaks in a little olive oil for an hour.

It's known as a composed salad; The ingredients are assembled on top of the lettuce instead of being tossed together with a dressing. Our tasty version of a classic Nicoise salad can also be turned into a sandwich. First of all, what exactly is Nicoise salad? You can cook Nicoise salad using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Nicoise salad

It's 60 gm of tuna flakes.
Prepare 120 gm of mixed salad.
You need 50 gm of french beans.
You need 1 pc of boiled egg.
It's 80 gm of potato.
It's 60 gm of cucumber.
You need 80 gm of tomato.
You need 30 gm of lemon juice.
Prepare 40 gm of olive oil.

It's a classic French composed salad. In French it's called salade nicoise, meaning "Salad from Nice, France". It always has the same elements: a bed of greens (many times butter lettuce), blanched green beans, olives, tomatoes, tuna, hard boiled eggs, potatoes, and a tangy vinaigrette. Here's the truth: That's a terrible (and lazy!) way to make a salad.

Nicoise salad instructions

Toes the mixed salad with lemon dressing then topped with tomato wedges, potato wedges, cucumber stick, french beans, boiled egg, olives and tuna flakes.
Garnish with mint leaves.

This one is loaded with all the best ingredients, cooked with care, and assembled like you actually give a damn. Salade niçoise (French pronunciation: ), la salada nissarda in the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language, is a salad that originated in the French city of Nice. It is traditionally made of tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, Niçoise olives and anchovies or tuna, dressed with olive oil. Notice that it is "inspired from" Salade-Nicoise, explaining liberties taken from the authentic. This is the salad to make when slender green beans are coming on, in your garden.