Nicoise Salad Supreme
With a little advance prep work the day before or even a couple hours before serving and you can bring this Salad together in a jiffy! Cook the Potatoes, Hard Boiled Eggs and Asparagus in advance and refrigerate covered until ready to assemble. The ingredients are for 2 large servings but you can add or subtract to suit your appetite. Served with a warm piece of Garlic Mozzarella Bread and you have the makings of a wonderful meal!
Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
Salad
- 1 medium heart of Romaine Lettuce torn into bite size peices
- 2 small -medium yellow Potatoes peeled, cooked, sliced 1/4 inch thick and chilled
- 2 large Eggs hard cooked, peeled and chilled and quartered
- 8-10 spears Asparagus trimmed, cooked until tender crisp and chilled
- 8 Cherry or Grape Tomatoes
- 4 Spring Onions Sliced
- 8-10 pitted Kalamata Olives
- 1 8 oz can Oil Packed Tuna well drained. Italian Tuna preferred ifyou can.
- 1 2 oz can Anchovy fillets
Herbed Vinaigreete
- 2/3 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1/4 cup Red Wine Vinegar
- 2 Tsp Salt
- 1 Tsp sugar
- 1/2 Tsp dried Chervil
- 1/2 Tsp dried Tarragon
- 1/4 Tsp ground Black Pepper
Instructions
- On each of 2 dinner plates, arrange equal portions of Lettuce. Mound portions of flaked Tuna in the center of each plate. Artfully arrange the Asparagus Spears, sliced Potatoes,the quartered Hard Cooked Eggs, Cherry Tomatoes,Kalamata Olives and Spring Onions around the Tuna. Top with a couple of spiraled Anchovy Fillets and that's it.
- Combine all the Vinaigrette ingredients in a screw top jar. When you are ready to serve, give the Salad Vinaigrette a good shake and drizzle over the top. That's it! Just sit your self down and enjoy a delicious taste of Spring!
- Thanks for stopping by today on this 2nd day of April! Spring truly has sprung up here in the Back of the Beyond in the mountains of Northeast Washington State. Our long and bitterly cold winter is gasping its last breath and we are so looking forward to trees budding, green grass and Daffodils nodding their happy yellow heads.
- Wherever your Journey leads you today, I wish you the warmth of the sun on your face and the blue of a Spring Sky to make your heart sing.
- Journey ON! Hugs and much love from me, Karen, TJG