Salads are one of the best ways to pamper your taste buds and provide all the nutrients and proteins to your body. Salad Nicoise is one of the best salad combinations. It holds all of the favorite ingredients especially tuna. The preparation method is not too complicated either. Inspired by French cuisine, this salad makes an amazing summer dish. You can add more garden vegetables like corn, blanched broccoli, cauliflower, and asparagus to make it delightful and more nutritious!
Health Benefits
Salad Nicoise is an excellent source of vitamin A, B1, B3, B6, C and K, fiber, folate, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium and selenium, and a good source of vitamins B2, B12, and D, calcium, and zinc.
Ingredients
½ lb new potatoes - quartered
¼ cup fresh parsley - chopped
¼ cup nicoise olives - pitted
½ onion - thinly sliced
1 (5 oz) can tuna
1/3 lb fresh green beans - rinsed, trimmed and blanched
½ lb mixed salad greens
1 cup Lemon vinaigrette
3 hard-cooked eggs (quartered)
3 roma (plum) tomatoes (thinly sliced)
1 tbsp capers
4 anchovy filets
How To Make Salad Nicoise
- To a large pot, add water and salt. Bring to boil.
- Add potatoes, and let it cook until tender and yet little firm.
- Allow it to cook for at least 15 minutes. Drain and cool.
- In a large bowl, mix the potatoes, parsley, olives, onion, tuna and green beans.
- Refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours.
- In a large bowl, add greens with vinaigrette and top with chilled potato mixture.
- Garnish with eggs, tomatoes, capers, and anchovies.
TIP: The French way of preparing the same recipe is by just combining all of the ingredients excluding the greens, and letting them marinate in a batch of dressing.
Trivia
In 2001 a 440-pound bluefin sold for $173,600 in the Japanese Tsukiji fish market - that's about $394 per pound!
The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete. The tree is over 5,000 years old and is still producing fruit.
The world’s largest salad was made in Romania in 2012 and weighed 41,998lb.