When summer is popping up, what we want is to be able to enjoy fresh and good food. A generous, healthy dish that you will love to share with your friends! Here it is a French Salade Niçoise that you will love!
Ingredients to make your salade Niçoise
- 1 medium radicchio, cored and thinly sliced
- 2 handfuls fresh string beans, ends trimmed
- 1 head of green leafy lettuce, torn
- 2 medium heirloom tomatoes or a pint of cherry tomatoes
- 1 can oil-packed tuna, drained and separated into pieces
- 14.5 oz can of cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- 4 red potatoes, sliced ¼” thick
Parsley Vinaigrette’s ingredients
- 1 T. capers
- 1/2 cup of flat leaf parsley chopped
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 3 T. lemon juice
- 2 t. white wine vinegar
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- salt and pepper to taste
Preparation to make a French Salade Niçoise
- Start by boiling water in a saucepan
- Before cooking your green beans for 3 minutes until they are bright green, remember to season with a pinch of salt.
- Then, to stop cooking, you can transfer the beans in a ice water bath
- Boil the sliced potatoes in the water of the pan. We advise you to cook until fork tender.
- Then, chill in a ice bath
- Now, you can drain the tuna and the cannellini beans
- Finally, you can start to place the lettuce, radicchio and sliced tomatoes on your dish
Let’s make the Parsley Vinaigrette
- Mix together: olive oil, lemon juice, white wine vinegar, garlic, flat leaf parsley and black pepper. Make sure your preparation is well mixed
- Last but not least: Add capers and stir. Taste to see if you need to add salt. Most of the time, capers are already salty
- Pour the dressing over your salad
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