French
Salade Nicoise (Nice-Style Tuna, Egg and Vegetable Salad)
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Salade Nicoise (Nice-Style Tuna, Egg and Vegetable Salad) is French home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Put the eggs in a small pot of water, bring to a boil, then simmer for 9 minutes, drain and run under cold water, then peel and quarter them.
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While the eggs cook, halve the cherry tomatoes and slice the cucumber, bell pepper and red onion.
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Whisk the olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt and black pepper together in a small bowl to make the dressing.
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Arrange the tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper and onion on a large platter and scatter the olives and anchovy fillets over the top.
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Flake the tuna over the vegetables, tuck in the quartered eggs, and drizzle the dressing over everything.
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Scatter the basil leaves over the salad and serve right away while the vegetables are still crisp.
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Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Salade Nicoise (Nice-Style Tuna, Egg and Vegetable Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Salade Nicoise (Nice-Style Tuna, Egg and Vegetable Salad) carries eggs and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Baguette Tradition au Beurre (Fresh Tradition Baguette with Butter) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Baguette Tradition au Beurre (Fresh Tradition Baguette with Butter) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 410 kcal
- Protein
- 27 g
- Carbs
- 9 g
- Fat
- 29 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 1030 mg
- Saturated fat
- 5 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Salade Nicoise (Nice-Style Tuna, Egg and Vegetable Salad) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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