Best Recipe for Sort of Salad Nicoise
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- Dijon mustard
- 4 anchovy filets
- Minced fresh garlic
- Grated lemon zest and lemon juice to taste
- Salt and pepper
- 3 cups mixed greens, washed
- 2 cans (about 6 ounces) imported tuna fish in olive oil from France or Italy ok, drained and flaked
- 4 small new red potatoes, cut, lengthwise into quarters skin left on, parboiled until just cooked through
- 2 ripe plum tomatoes, cut into quarters, lengthwise
- 1 cup "haricots verts", parboiled until crisp tender
- 1/3 cup Kalamata olives, measured, then pitted and cut into slivers
- 1 teaspoon "salted" capers, rinsed
Instructions
- In a food processor combine the mayonnaise, about a teaspoonful of Dijon mustard or to taste, anchovies and a small clove minced garlic. Season to taste with lemon juice and grated lemon rind. Season to taste with salt and pepper.;
- Arrange greens on 2 individual dinner plates. On each plate: arrange a sprinkle of tuna in the center of the plate and drizzle mayonnaise over tuna and greens.
- Surround tuna fish, in spoke like fashion, with potatoes, tomatoes and haricots verts. Sprinkle black olives and capers on top for garnish.
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