Picnic Week: Tuna Nicoise Sandwiches

Name: Picnic Week: Tuna Nicoise Sandwiches
Prep time: 1 h 12 min
Cook time: 1 h 12 min
Total time: 1 h 12 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Mediterranean, French, European
Ingredients: 1 loaf bread; 1 Tbsp dijon mustard; 3 hard boiled eggs; 0 English cucumber, sliced; 1 handful fresh basil; 3 Tbsps olive oil; 2 x 7 oz cans of tuna; 2 Tbsps white wine vinegar

Picnic Week: Tuna Nicoise Sandwiches might be just the Mediterranean recipe you are searching for. One serving contains 871 calories, 61g of protein, and 38g of fat. This recipe serves 5. This recipe covers 43% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up wine vinegar, wine vinegar, basil, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the eggs you could follow this main course with the Rose Levy Beranbaum's Chocolate Tomato Cake with Mystery Ganache as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free and pescatarian diet. It works well as a budget friendly main course. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 12 minutes.

Instructions

Whisk together oil, vinegar and mustard until you have a smooth dressing.

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Mustard

Vinegar

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

Drain your tuna well - particularly if you're bad like me and can't stop buying the Italian, oil packed variety which is the most delicious - and dump it in a bowl.

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Tuna

Cooking Oil

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Bowl

Add 2 Tbsp of the dressing to the tuna and mash it up with a fork and mix well.Toss the sliced cucumber in the remaining Tbsp of dressing and give it a stir.

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Cucumber

Tuna

Cut the loaf of bread horizontally and use your fingers to pinch out a good bit of the soft bread inside. You're making a little nest for your sandwich ingredients and allowing the sandwich to flatten out a bit. You want to pinch out about a cup's worth of bread.

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Bread

Spread a thin layer of tapenade on piece of bread.

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Spread

Bread

Place a layer of basil leaves, followed by a layer of sliced egg. Now use a spoon to mound the tuna next. Follow with a layer of sliced cucumber.

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Fresh Basil

Cucumber

Tuna

Egg

Place the top of the bread and press down gently

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Bread

Wrap the whole sandwich in plastic. Put it on a plate and weigh it down with something.

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Wrap

Put the whole works in the fridge for at least an hour or over night. You want the flavours to blend but also for the sandwich to compact so it's easier to slice. For adults you could cut it into quarters, for kids I split them in half again.

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Whisk

Bowl

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Servings:

English cucumber, sliced 1handful

fresh basil 3Tbsps

olive oil 2

x 7 oz cans of tuna 2Tbsps

white wine vinegar

Recommended wine: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Rose Wine

Tuna can be paired with Merlot, Pinot Noir, and rosé Wine. Though fish is often paired with white wine, 'meatier' fish like tuna can absolutely go with red wine. A Rosé will also pair nicely, particularly if your tunan is prepared with ingredients better suited to a white wine. One wine you could try is GEN5 Merlot. It has 4.4 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 12 dollars.