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Salade Niçoise With Homemade Dressing

Published: Aug 30, 2021 · Modified: Nov 23, 2024 by Judith Coates · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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It is a lovely refreshing salad ideal for a starter, a light summer lunch with crispy bread, or just as a snack with drinks for entertaining.
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It is a southern dish from Nice in the south of France and is now famous all over the world. It is a lovely refreshing salad ideal for a starter, a light summer lunch with crispy bread, or a snack with drinks for entertaining. The French cook will use whatever Mediterranean vegetables are in season and plentiful at the time.

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Salade Niçoise

Salade Niçoise, Provençal Salad Or Salade Nice

There are many versions of this wonderful Salade Niçoise sometimes called Provençal salad or Salade Nice.

The local people will say that the original version of this salad does not contain potatoes although many recipes do include them.

I usually go along with the locals, after all, it is their dish and if you have ever been to Nice you will know just how gorgeous this dish is. But this time I have added potatoes to make it a meal, but you can leave them out if you choose!

For me, it must include lots of black olives and a light vinaigrette dressing - sheer heaven!

Learn more about different types of salads like this delicious vegetable salad in The Ultimate Salad Guide.

📝Ingredients List

🥬️Start With Lettuce Then…

This recipe suggests starting with the heart of a head of lettuce, which is often the tastiest and sweetest part of the lettuce.

All the vegetables should be fresh and sliced uni-formally to suit the rest of the dish.

The goodness of the vegetables full of vitamins and minerals, along with the proteins from the tuna and eggs form a complete nutritious meal.

You can add any vegetable you like that will bring you joy!

Try…

  • yellow beans
  • bell or hot peppers
  • green onions
  • leaf lettuce
  • chives
  • parsley
  • your favorite herbs
  • a sprinkling of finely chopped garlic
  • trade the anchovy fillets for shrimp
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Be creative!

🙌Tossing The Salad

Place half the vinaigrette dressing in a shallow bowl and in this toss, the lettuce leaves together with the French beans.

Covering the lettuce leaves completely before the other ingredients ensures the salad will have a uniform taste of the dressing.

When all the other items in the salad join the lettuce, then the remaining half of the dressing will be drizzled on top.

Many salad dressings are delicious on this medley of vegetables and proteins but Nicoise Dressing is wonderful. To make it start with the homemade mayonnaise recipe Easy Immersion Blender Mayonnaise Recipe.

Then add one tablespoon of thick tomato coulis (this is best made from fresh tomatoes, make it using my recipe Tomato Puree), ¼ teaspoon paprika, and one teaspoon fresh tarragon. The complete directions are in the recipe card below.

salade nicoise is vegetables and fish

More Wonderful French Salads

  • Easy Lyonnaise Salad
  • Vinaigrette Salad Dressings
  • French Salads Supreme
  • French Grated Carrot Salad
  • Mixed Green Salad Recipe

📖 Recipe

salad nicoise

Salade Niçoise Recipe

Judith Coates
Bon Appétit
Like it? ~ Let us know below!
It is a lovely refreshing salad ideal for a starter, a light summer lunch with crispy bread, or just as a snack with drinks for entertaining.
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 12 minutes mins
Total Time 32 minutes mins
Course Salad
Cuisine French
Servings 4

Ingredients

Main Body Of The Salad

  • 1 crisp lettuce heart
  • 1 cup 8oz cooked French beans
  • ½ cup 4oz tuna
  • ¼ cup 2oz small black olives
  • A few stuffed green olives optional
  • Thin strips of de-seeded green pepper
  • 8 anchovy fillets
  • A few thin onion rings optional
  • 1½ cup 12oz firm tomatoes, quartered
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs quartered
  • potatoes boiled or roasted ahead of time
  • yellow beans
  • bell or hot peppers
  • green onions
  • leaf lettuce
  • chives
  • parsley
  • your favorite herbs
  • a sprinkling of finely chopped garlic
  • trade the anchovy fillets for shrimp
  • grated black pepper

Nicoise Salad Dressing (Sauce Nicoise)

To the basic mayonnaise recipe, add:

  • 1 tablespoon of thick Tomato Coulis this is best made from fresh tomatoes
  • ¼ teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon fresh tarragon
  • This sauce is a fabulous addition to just about anything!

Instructions
 

  • Hard boil the eggs ahead of time to give them a chance to cool down. (Warm eggs and lettuce do not go together well. ;-))
  • Place half the vinaigrette dressing in a shallow bowl and in this toss, the lettuce leaves together with the beans.
  • Arrange small pieces of the tuna along with the other ingredients, black and green olives, peppers, anchovy fillets, and onions on the top of the lettuce.
  • Place the tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs on the top around the bowl.
  • Sprinkle with the remainder of the vinaigrette dressing.

Notes

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Nutrition

Calories: 522.48kcalCarbohydrates: 55.64gProtein: 24.66gFat: 23.2gSaturated Fat: 4.28gCholesterol: 116.86mgSodium: 1070.29mgFiber: 10.25gSugar: 9.45g
Keyword French salads, salad provence, salade-nicoise, vinaigrette dressing
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