Niçoise Salad

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 10min
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A fresh vegetable salad featuring hard-boiled eggs, green beans, baby romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, black olives, tuna in its own juice, anchovy fillets, white beans, parsley, and a vinaigrette of white balsamic vinegar, olive oil, Dijon mustard, sugar, salt, and pepper.

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • 150 g green beans
  • 1 baby romaine lettuce
  • 150 g cherry tomatoes
  • 80 g Black olives
  • 200 g tuna (in its own juice, canned)
  • 6 anchovy fillets (in oil)
  • 100 g thick white beans (canned)
  • 0.5 handful parsley
  • 3 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 0.5 tsp medium-hot mustard
  • 1 pinch sugar
  • Salt
  • Pepper

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Boil the eggs for 10 minutes, cool in cold water, peel and quarter them.

  2. 2.

    Wash, trim, and halve the green beans; blanch in boiling salted water for about 8 minutes until firm, then drain and shock in cold water. Wash the romaine lettuce, dry by spinning, and tear into bite-sized pieces. Wash and halve the cherry tomatoes. Drain the olives and let them drip dry. Drain the tuna and flake it with a fork. Drain the anchovies and white beans. Wash parsley, shake dry, and pluck the leaves.

  3. 3.

    Whisk together vinegar, oil, mustard, and sugar; season with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. 4.

    Arrange romaine on a platter. Distribute eggs, beans, tomatoes, olives, tuna, anchovies, white beans, and parsley over it. Drizzle dressing on top and serve.