Salad Nicoise Recipe

  French Salad

Ingredients:
3 cans solid packed in water albacore (you can use your fresh tuna)
greens
3 cans anchovy fillets
4 ripe tomatoes
8 hard boiled eggs
pimientos
ripe olives

Vinaigrette Sauce:
6 T olive oil
2 T wine vinegar
1/2 to 1 tsp salt
12 grinds of the pepper mill

Directions:
Drain the albacore/tuna and place in the center of a large platter covered with your choice of greens. Arrange anchovy fillets around the albacore/tuna. Quarter the tomatoes and the eggs. Arrange around the edges of the platter. Garnish with strips of pimentoes and ripe olives. Serve with the vinaigrette sauce or your choice of dressing.

Variations:
Thinly sliced new cooked potatoes with oil and vinegar. Cooked crisp string beans with oil and vinegar onion rings, fresh chopped parsley and fresh basil for garnish.

Salad Nicoise
 

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