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Tuna Nicoise Salad

Our classic French Tuna Niçoise salad recipe is packed with flavour, taste and texture. Topped off with Sunday's left over roast potatoes... what's not to love?
Tuna Nicoise Salad

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Serves:2

Cooking Time: 45 minutes

This is our go-to salad for summer; tuna niçoise with a cajun twist. Completed with the addition of a few delicious left over Sunday roasties.

Ingredients
  • 4-6 medium boiled eggs
  • 2 x 400g tins of tuna chunks in sunflower oil (drained and set aside)
  • 1 pack of green beans
  • 1 pack of sugar snap peas
  • 1 large red onion (thinly sliced)
  • 100g black olives
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp sunflower oil (use oil drained from tuna)
  • 2 large potatoes (unpeeled)
  • 1 tsp cajun spices
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp smoked rock salt
  • 1 sprig rosemary
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 bag of mixed salad leaves
  • Smoked rock salt & pepper to season
  • 1 tbsp olive oil for drizzling
Method
  1. Hard boil the eggs in salted water for 5-8 minutes. Allow to cool then shell and cut in half.
  2. Pre-heat the oven to 220º/200º fan.
  3. Cut the potatoes into wedges place in a bowl. Add the cajun spices, garlic, rock salt, rosemary and olive oil. Mix together to coat the wedges and place onto a baking sheet. Place in the oven and roast for approximately 20-30 minutes.
  4. Top and tail the beans and cook until 'al dente' along with the sugar snap peas. Drain and set aside.
  5. Peel and cut the onion in half then thinly slice.

To make the Vinaigrette dressing:

  1. Pour the red wine vinegar and olive oil into the blending jug with the olives, lemon juice and salt & pepper. Use the Dualit Hand Blender to combine the ingredients.

To assemble the salad:

  1. Using a large serving dish, add the salad leaves, rocket leaves with the beans, sugar snap peas and sliced onions. Pour in half the vinegarette dressing and toss together.
  2. Add the potato wedges and tuna chunks along with the boiled eggs and carefully mix in.
  3. Pour over the remaining vinegarette and a pinch of smoked rock salt. Drizzle with extra olive oil if desired.
  4. Serve with our Tear & Share Focaccia.

Top tips

  • Rock the boat a little and try this salad with fresh or tinned salmon instead of tuna.
  • Treat yourself to Clarence court eggs, the taste and vibrancy of the yolks are truly delicious.
  • For fresh tuna, brush the steaks with a little olive oil, season and fry in a hot pan for 2-3 minutes each side and place on top of the salad just before serving.
  • For a veggie option - fry mushrooms golden brown, dip into breadcrumbs and bake in the oven with a little olive oil until crispy. Thickly chopped courgette works just as well.
  • This is a great Monday lunch dish to use up any leftover sunday roasties.

Dualit Product Used

We used the Hand Blender to create the dressing for this tuna salad.

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