Nicoise salad

Nicoise salad is a dish of traditional French cuisine, today it can be found on the menu of any restaurant. There are so many salad options in many restaurants. Initially, the salad consisted only of tomatoes, anchovies, olives and garlic. Now there are so many options for preparing a salad that it is impossible to count them All kinds of fresh vegetables, green beans, rice, potatoes, white boiled beans, corn, and much more are added to the salad.The zest of this salad is the dressing of a mixture of olive oil and mustard, which gives the salad a piquant taste.

Ingredients

• canned tuna 180 g
• leaf salad 100 g
• green beans 100 g
• cherry tomatoes 8 pcs.
• quail eggs 8 pcs.
• pitted olives 150 g
• salad onion 1 pc.
• anchovies 12 pcs.
• red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons
• olive oil 5 tablespoons
• mustard with grains 1 tbsp
• clove of garlic 1 pc.
• salt to taste g
• freshly ground black pepper to taste g

Directions

1. Peel a small salad onion, cut into the thinnest half rings, add one tablespoon of wine vinegar, leave to marinate. Rinse and dry lettuce leaves.
2. Boil the green beans in salted boiling water for about 3 minutes. Then fold into a sieve and immediately rinse with cold water to maintain color and firmness.
3. Cook the quail eggs for 4 minutes, chill, peel and cut into quarters.
4. Cut the cherry tomatoes into quarters.
5. I replaced the anchovies with spiced sprat. Remove the sprat from the sprat and cut into fillets.
6. Mash natural canned tuna with a fork.
7. All ingredients for the salad are ready.
8. For dressing: olive oil, a spoonful of wine vinegar, put mustard in a small jar. Add chopped garlic, salt and pepper. Cap the jar tightly and shake vigorously to combine the ingredients. The salad dressing is ready.
9. We collect the salad. Put lettuce leaves in portions on plates.
10. Place the pieces of canned tuna and salad pickled onions on top.
11. Then lay out the boiled green beans.
12. Lay anchovies and quail eggs on top of the beans.
13. Then put the olives and tomatoes.
14. Drizzle generously with the dressing.
15. The Nicoise salad is ready. Bon Appetit!