Salade Niçoise
Make salade niçoise your go-to salad. With crunchy lettuce, ripe tomatoes, potatoes, tuna and soft-boiled eggs, it's full of flavour and texture.
Method
Based on 2 servings, adjust as needed.
Step 1
To make the dressing, mash the garlic and anchovies, if using, with a small pinch of salt on a board using the blade of a large knife, or in a pestle and mortar. Combine the paste with the mustard and vinegar, then slowly stir in the tuna oil from the drained tin tuna. Set aside.
Step 2
Tip the new potatoes into a large pan of cold salted water, ensuring they’re well covered. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer. Add the beans and cook for 5 mins, then remove with a slotted spoon and immediately plunge into a bowl of iced water to cool. Cook the potatoes for another 5 mins until tender, then drain and leave to cool. When cool enough to handle, halve or quarter them, and toss in a large bowl with a little of the dressing. Leave to cool completely.
Step 3
Meanwhile, cook the eggs in a second pan of simmering water for 7½ mins (cook for less time if you like them more runny), then transfer to a bowl of iced water to cool. Drain the beans and eggs, then peel and halve the eggs.
Step 4
Tip the lettuce quarters, cooked beans and olives into the bowl with the potatoes. Add most of the remaining dressing and gently toss. Divide the salad between bowls, and top with the tomatoes and eggs. Flake over the tuna, then drizzle with the rest of the dressing and season.
- Ingredients
- Based on 2 servings
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50g Green Beans, trimmed and halved 1x Sainsbury's Fine Green Beans 200g -
2 Tomatoes, quartered 2x Sainsbury's Tomatoes Loose -
160g Tuna In Olive Oil, drained, oil reserved 1x Sainsbury's Albacore Tuna Steak In Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Taste the Difference 160g -
3 Eggs 1x Sainsbury's British Free Range Eggs Medium x6 -
50g Pitted Black Olives, drained 1x Sainsbury's Pitted Black Olives 340g (150g*) -
2 Anchovy Fillets 1x John West Anchovy Fillets 95g -
0.5 Garlic Clove 1x Sainsbury's Garlic -
2 Little Gem Lettuces, quartered 1x Sainsbury's Little Gem Lettuce x2 -
2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar 1x Sainsbury's Wine Vinegar, Red Wine 500ml -
1 tbsp Dijion Mustard 1x Sainsbury's Dijon Mustard 185g -
8 New Potatoes 1x Sainsbury's Baby Potatoes 1kg