Tuna nicoise salad

Tuna nicoise salad is one of my favourite salads, so many colours, so vibrant, you can eat it warm, cold, straight away, pack it for lunch or a picnic and you can even throw together the bare minimum tuna nicoise from store cupboard/freezer.

It’s a lovely dish for spring lunches or even as a quick midweek meal. I eat it as it is, the kids I must admit like a side of chips or chunk of crusty bread.

It really is just a case of boiling an egg, potatoes and green beans and tumbling them together with tuna, olives, capers and tomatoes and adding a good drizzle of olive oil. So simple, yet so delicious.

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Tuna nicoise salad

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Yield: Serves 4

Delicious and healthy easy family meal

Ingredients

• 2-3 small new potatoes per person - peeled or scrubbed and chopped into quarters
• 3 large handfuls of green beans (frozen is fine)
• 4 eggs
• 4 handfuls of rocket leaves or mixed salad leaves
• 4 vine tomatoes - cut into wedges
• large handful of black olives
• 2 tbs capers
• 2 tins of tuna
• juice of a lemon
• flat leaf parsley

Instructions

1. Put the potatoes and green beans into a pan of water, bring to the boil and simmer for around 8-10 minutes until the potatoes are tender.
2. In another pan put the eggs into water and bring to the boil - gently boil for around 8-10 minutes. Then run them under cold water to cool.
3. Whilst the eggs, potatoes and beans are cooking - open the tuna and toss in lemon juice and chop the tomatoes.
4. Add a handful of rocket to the plates.
5. Top with green beans and potatoes
6. Scatter over the tuna, olives, capers and tomatoes.
7. Peel the eggs and quarter - arrange them on top.
8. Drizzle with olive oil

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Make Tuna Nicoise Salad your way

• Don’t like eggs – miss them out.
• Use fresh tuna or even salmon instead.
• Don’t like green beans – try peas.
• No potatoes – add some pasta or gnocchi.
• Need to make it from store cupboard – just try pasta (or tinned new potatoes), tuna, olives, capers, green beans, eggs and sun dried tomatoes.
• Go veggie and skip the tuna all together.

Enjoy!