Salade Nicoise

Name: Salade Nicoise
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 fillets anchovy fillets (optional); 100 grams sliced pitted black olives; 40 grams croutons; 2 larges eggs; 4 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil; 1 handful fresh basil leaves; 100 grams frozen fine green beans; 250 grams torn iceberg lettuces; 1 juice of lemon; 1 teaspoons maldon salt (or pinch table salt); 1 teaspoons sugar; 200 grams sunblush tomatoes (in seasoned oil); 1 x 225 grams jar or can of tuna

Salade Nicoise is a gluten free, dairy free, and pescatarian recipe with 2 servings. One serving contains 571 calories, 41g of protein, and 29g of fat. This recipe covers 36% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as an affordable main course. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. If you have anchovy, can of tuna, croutons, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the sugar you could follow this main course with the Whole Wheat Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies as a dessert.

Instructions

Put the eggs in a panful of cold water, bring to the boil and let bubble for 7 minutes. Three minutes in, add the frozen beans.

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Beans

Water

Egg

Drain both the beans and eggs; let eggs sit in a bowl under running cold water, and hold the beans in a sieve just under the tap for a moment, too, so that eggs and beans stop cooking and the beans get cold.Tip the tomatoes and their oil into a bowl, add the olives and mix gently.Arrange the lettuce on a serving dish and then top with the tomato-olive mixture, saving their flavoursome juices in the bowl.

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Tomato

Lettuce

Olives

Beans

Water

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Sieve

Bowl

Drain the tuna and place chunks of it along with the tomatoes and olives, then strew with the drained beans.Using the reserved juices left in the tomato mixture's bowl, make the dressing: whisk in the olive oil, lemon juice, salt and sugar and pour over the salad.Peel and quarter the almost but not quite hard-boiled eggs and add to the salad along with the croutons, anchovy fillets (if using) and basil leaves.

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Hard Boiled Egg