COPPERSalade niçoise recipe
A Nice salad of raw vegetables, salted tomatoes, anchovies and olive oil, with nothing cooked but the eggs.
Ingredients
- 600 g ripe tomatoes
- 2 green peppers
- 1 red onion
- 4 eggs
- 200 g tuna in olive oil
- 8 anchovy fillets
- 80 g black olives
- 1 bunch fresh basil
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to make Salade niçoise
- Cook the 4 eggs 9 minutes in boiling water, cool them in cold water, peel and quarter them.
- Cut the 600 g of tomatoes into wedges, remove the seeds and salt them with part of the salt.
- Seed the 2 green peppers and cut them into small pieces. Slice the red onion thinly.
- Rinse the 8 anchovy fillets under cold water and drain the 200 g of tuna.
- On a large platter, lay the tomatoes, then the peppers and onion, the tuna and the eggs. Nothing is tossed.
- Add the 80 g of olives and the anchovies, season with the rest of the salt, then scatter the torn basil leaves.
- Pour the 4 tbsp of olive oil generously over just before serving. No vinegar, and no cooked vegetables besides the eggs.
What is Salade niçoise?
Salade niçoise is a traditional dish from France, boiled, and takes about 30 minutes from start to finish. It is built around ripe tomatoes, tuna in olive oil and black olives. The recipe below uses 10 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Salade niçoise take?
At 30 minutes it is quicker than 97% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 14 dishes built on ripe tomatoes. The method runs to 7 steps, the longest being 9 minutes.
Any tips for making Salade niçoise?
Salt the tomato wedges before assembling and dress only with olive oil, just before serving.
How Salade niçoise compares
At 30 minutes, Salade niçoise is among the 20 quickest of the 586 dishes Copper documents. Hard to find elsewhere: tuna in olive oil (1), anchovy fillets (1) and fresh basil (1).
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