Quick and Vibrant Nicoise Salad
This easy nicoise salad recipe comes from our Mediterranean Diet Made Easy Cookbook and uses pantry items to create a quick meal.
Servings 1 large salad
Ingredients
Dressing
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 5-6 anchovy filets, drained
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup olive oil
Salad
- 2 cups romaine lettuce, roughly chopped
- 1/2 medium cucumber, sliced
- 1 hardboiled egg, cut in half
- 1/4 cup roasted red peppers, sliced
- 1 (2.7 oz) can tuna, drained
- 1/2 cup canned artichoke hearts, quartered
- 1/4 cup olives
- 1/4 cup cornichons
Instructions
Dressing
- In a food processor, combine the garlic, anchovy filets and lemon juice. Pulse until well chopped. Then, with the food processor running, slowly add the olive oil. Puree the dressing until well combined.
Salad
- Combine te lettuce, cucumber, egg, roasted red peppers, tuna, artichoke hearts, olives and cornichons onto a large plate or bowl.
- When ready to serve, pour the dressing over the top
Notes
Recipe from The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy cookbook
If you don't want to make your own dressing, you can substitute with an olive oil based vinaigrette.
You can also easily change up this recipe to make it your own. Sun-dried tomatoes are a great addition. Change out the tuna with canned salmon, smoked salmon or chickpeas if you are looking for a plant based option.