Canned tuna is fine but if you are able to use fresh fish, it tastes even better
Sometimes the classics win out and there's nothing quite like a Mediterranean Salade Nicoise. All we've done is remove the potatoes that you usually find in traditional recipes, and replace them with scattered pine nuts and a few herbs.
Method
- Put the eggs in a saucepan of cold water and bring them to a boil for four minutes during which time, you add the beans
- Remove the beans and place in cold water to keep them ‘al-dente’ while letting the eggs cool naturally; this keeps them yellow and slightly moist.
- Chop the baby tomatoes in two; mix briskly with olives and onion slicesin the oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper
- Arrange the chopped lettuce on a serving dish, top with the tomato-olive mixture, and add chunks of the strained tuna and beans
- Peel and quarter the hard-boiled eggs and add with anchovy fillets and basil leaves
- Adding croutons or pine nuts adds just a little crunch. We choose the low-carb option so sprinkle with pine nuts as and when desired.
Method
- Put the eggs in a saucepan of cold water and bring them to a boil for four minutes during which time, you add the beans
- Remove the beans and place in cold water to keep them ‘al-dente’ while letting the eggs cool naturally; this keeps them yellow and slightly moist.
- Chop the baby tomatoes in two; mix briskly with olives and onion slicesin the oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper
- Arrange the chopped lettuce on a serving dish, top with the tomato-olive mixture, and add chunks of the strained tuna and beans
- Peel and quarter the hard-boiled eggs and add with anchovy fillets and basil leaves
- Adding croutons or pine nuts adds just a little crunch. We choose the low-carb option so sprinkle with pine nuts as and when desired.
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For four people
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Ingredients
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