Ingredients:
- Tomatoes 3 pieces
- Sweet bell pepper 1 piece
- Fresh cucumber 1 piece
- Salad leaves 4 pieces
- Anchovies 100 grams
- Canned tuna in its own juice 100 grams
- Boiled or canned beans 100 grams
- Onion 1 piece
- Garlic 1 clove
- Lemon juice 30 ml.
- Olive oil 50 ml.
- Chicken egg 1 piece
- Parsley bunch
- Salt, pepper, thyme to taste
Cooking method:
Step 1. Boil eggs in a steep, peel and cut into large slices.
Step 2 Peel the garlic, chop finely.
Step 3 Put garlic and boiled beans in a hot pan with vegetable oil. Frying beans, improves its taste with salt and pepper. As soon as the garlic is roasted, and a brownish crust appears on the beans, the fire under the pan should be turned off.
Step 4 Cut tomatoes into large slices.
Step 5 Cut bell pepper into thin slices.
Step 6 Peel the cucumber and cut into slices.
Step 7 Rinse lettuce leaves, shake excess moisture and pick by hand. Put chopped vegetables in a deep plate.
Step 8 Cut the onion into thin half rings. And also put in a common plate.
Step 9 Now prepare the dressing: mix chopped parsley, salt, pepper, half lemon juice and olive oil in a separate bowl.
Step 10 It is better to fill the salad just before serving so that the vegetables retain their shape and do not let the juice go.
Step 11 Garnish vegetables laid out on a serving plate with warm beans, eggs and anchovies. Anchovies - a small fish marinated in vegetable oil and salt, has a very rich sweetish-spicy taste. In Mediterranean cuisine, it is often used as a seasoning, making the taste of dressing more intense.
Step 12 The main ingredient of Nicoise salad - pieces of tuna, put on top of the salad, which makes the serving more effective.
Bon Appetit!
