Nicoise salad is the famous summer anchovy salad from the beautiful city of Nice. Very bright and tasty, moderately satisfying, so it can serve as a full-fledged dish for lunch or dinner. There are a lot of nicoise recipes, someone cooks it with canned tuna, someone with fresh, they cook nicoise salad with salmon, and some even cook it with chicken. But in all recipes, it is invariable that they put fresh vegetables, quail eggs and anchovies in it.

Ingredients for 1 serving

• Canned tuna 60 gr.
• Lettuce leaves 50 gr.
• Red onion 20 gr.
• Olives 20 gr.
• Quail egg 2 pcs.
• Mini potatoes (baby) 3 pcs.
• Cherry tomatoes 4 pcs.
• Anchovies 10 gr.
• Green beans 30 gr.

For sauce

• Olive oil Extra Virgin 30 ml.
• Mustard Dijon 10 gr.
• Red wine vinegar 10 ml.
• Lemon or lime juice 5 ml.
• Garlic half clove
• Salt, Sugar and Pepper to taste

Nicoise salad recipe step by step

Boil mini potatoes in their skins until tender and cut each potato into 4 parts (boiled potatoes can be additionally fried). Boil quail eggs after boiling water for 4 minutes, then place them in cold water, peel and cut in half.

Boil green beans until "al dente" in salted water. Cook beans for about 3-4 minutes after boiling water, then transfer to ice water.

Make the sauce - to do this, mix all the ingredients except the oil. Garlic should be finely chopped or squeezed through a garlic press. When you mix all the ingredients for the sauce until smooth, pour in the olive oil in a thin stream without ceasing to beat. You should have a thick emulsion.

Cut the red onion into half rings, cherry tomatoes - in half.

Put lettuce, anchovies, red onion, cherry tomatoes, green beans, mini potatoes in a bowl, drizzle with half of the sauce, mix thoroughly and place in the middle of the plate.

Put canned tuna on top of the salad, sprinkle with olives, spread quail eggs around the edges and sprinkle with the remaining sauce.

Nicoise salad is ready. Bon Appetit!

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