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Home > Salads

Nicoise Salad with Tuna

Serves: 10 - 13 oz portions

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:
  • 16 oz green beans, cooked
  • 2 red onion, julienned
  • 2 lb red bliss potato, cooked, quartered
  • 1 oz capers, chopped
  • 1 oz parsley, chopped
  • 2 c Basic Vinaigrette
  • 1 1/2 lb mixed lettuce greens, including radicchio
  • 2 lb tuna, canned
  • 5 tomato, peeled, quartered
  • 10 hard-cooked egg, peeled, quartered
  • 20 anchovy fillets
  • 40 nicoise olives, pitted
1. Gently toss the green beans, onions, potatoes, capers, and parsley. Add the vinaigrette, and let marinate for 2 hours. Drain and reserve the excess vinaigrette.

2. Lay the lettuce on a platter. Place the tuna in the center. Arrange the bean-and-potato mixture around the tuna. Garnish the salad with the tomatoes, eggs, anchovies, and olives. Drizzle with remaining vinaigrette.

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