Niçoise Salad
This healthy main course tuna salad is one of the best main course salads ever invented... it's colorful, protein packed, and so satisfying.
Servings: 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 1 small head of crisp lettuce, your choice, rinsed, dried, and chopped
- 3 Tbsp fresh tarragon leaves
- 3 Tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- 1 cup white beans, either navy or cannellini, drained and rinsed
- 1 Persian cucumber, thinly sliced
- handful baby carrots, raw
- 1 cup baby purple potatoes, cooked and halved
- 1 cup yellow cherry tomatoes, halved
- about 6 baby radishes
- handful green beans, preferably French, lightly steamed
- 2-3 hard cooked eggs, halved
- 1/3 cup Bird Beak peppers
- 1/3 cup black olives, your choice, I used oil cured
- 6 ounces tuna canned in olive oil
- 2 Tbsp capers
dressing
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- juice of 1 large lemon
- 1 Tbsp mustard
- 1 Tbsp yellow mustard seeds
- salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Whisk together the dressing ingredients and season with salt and pepper to taste. Add more lemon juice if you like.
- Put the lettuce in a wide shallow salad bowl or platter and arrange the tarragon leaves over the lettuce.
- Toss the beans with a little of the dressing, and some of the fresh dill. Pile the beans into a heap on the edge of the salad, leaving the center free for the tuna.
- Arrange the cucumber slices and carrots in little piles next to the beans.
- Toss the potatoes with a little of the dressing and dill, and add them to the salad. Arrange the tomatoes, radishes, green beans, eggs, peppers, and olives in a similar manner all around the edge of the platter.
- Put the tuna in the center of the salad and top with the capers. Scatter the fresh dill over all.
- Drizzle with the dressing just before serving. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
- Please don't stress over exact amounts...my measurements are just guidelines, fill your platter with the ingredients in any way you see fit and it will be delicious!
- Other possible Nicoise salad ingredients are anchovies, artichokes, red onion, asparagus, bell peppers, marinated mushrooms, marinated feta or mozarella cheese, watercress, basil, etc.
Nutrition
Calories: 491 kcal · Carbohydrates: 30 g · Protein: 20 g · Fat: 34 g · Saturated Fat: 5 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 4 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 23 g · Cholesterol: 109 mg · Sodium: 501 mg · Potassium: 1078 mg · Fiber: 8 g · Sugar: 4 g · Vitamin A: 6420 IU · Vitamin C: 24 mg · Calcium: 186 mg · Iron: 7 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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