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French Salade Niçoise
Here is an authentic, tasty French Salade Niçoise recipe that you will love! One of my all-time favorite salads that is full of protein (eggs, tuna and possibly sardines) and with lots of good veggies butter lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, artichokes fava beans, radishes and basil. It is simple to make yet impressive to serve and is perfect for picnics or long lunches in the sun.. Serve with a fresh baked baguette and a glass of Rosé for the perfect French Riviera lunch.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 8 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 head of butter lettuce
- 2 eggs
- 1 can of tuna (the best you can find)
- 10 Niçois olives (or Kalamata if you don't have access to the Niçois kind)
- 1 Shallot finely chopped
- 1 green onion finely chopped
- 8 radishes ( preferably the long French kind but regular garden radishes work well too) sliced thinly
- 2 Roma tomatoes, quartered
- 2 whole artichoke hearts in oil, quartered
- 1/2 cup fava beans
- 2 Persian cucumbers, sliced
- 1 bunch fresh chopped basil (or else pesto if you don't have fresh basil for the vinaigrette)
- 1 clove of garlic
- 4 tablespoons Extra Virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Balsamic vinegar
- (optional: sardines or capers to garnish. I love capers but don't like sardines on my Niçoise though Le Chef does)
Instructions
- 1
4 tablespoons olive oil
- 2
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 3
1 clove of garlic finely chopped
- 4
pinch of coarse salt
- 5
2 tablespoons of fresh copped basil or 1 tablespoon of pesto