French
Salade Nicoise (Nice-Style Tuna, Egg and Vegetable Salad)
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
- 10 oz canned tuna in olive oil, drained
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 small English cucumber, sliced
- 1 red bell pepper, sliced
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup Nicoise olives
- 8 anchovy fillets
- 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- 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.
- While the eggs cook, halve the cherry tomatoes and slice the cucumber, bell pepper and red onion.
- Whisk the olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt and black pepper together in a small bowl to make the dressing.
- Arrange the tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper and onion on a large platter and scatter the olives and anchovy fillets over the top.
- Flake the tuna over the vegetables, tuck in the quartered eggs, and drizzle the dressing over everything.
- Scatter the basil leaves over the salad and serve right away while the vegetables are still crisp.
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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Egg, Meat or fish, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on tuna, egg, tomato, and anchovy.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from southern France.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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