tuna nicoise?

[book_lover]

for dinner tonight....

and every damn recipe I look at has a different story

I am thinking along these lines.....

salad leaves, with steamed and cooled green beans and new pots, and semi-hard boiled eggs (so yolk is runny - is this right?) and wedges of tomato, and anchovies, and black olives all shoved on - with a griddled tuna steak on top!

Do I slice the tuna steak up? We usually have rare tuna - but should it be cooked through for this?

A dressing made from olive oil, lemon juice and dijon?

HELP!

xxx

[gillyf]

Sounds yummy. Sometimes i've had it served with capers but no sure why. I'd cook the tuna well as it will flake better but it's personal taste i guess.

[Damsella]

Sounds fine!

Tuna nicoise has been adapted by loads of people, strictly it should be tinned tuna in oil, salted anchovies, boiled potatoes, hard boiled eggs, olives, green beans and lettuce with a vinaigrette dressing.

But yours sounds fab! I wouldn't chop up the tuna, just bung the steak on top with a squeeze of lemon and the pan juices.

[katkinn]

I always do salmon nicoise and mine is:

little gem lettuces
tomatoes chopped up
steamed green beans
boiled new potatoes
anchovies
capers
black olives
red onion sliced into paper thin half moons

dressing of olive oil, white wine vinegar or lemon juice and mustard. (sometimes add fresh parsley but last time I did it I didn't and didn't really miss it)
hard (sort of - vaguely hard if that makes sense - cooked for 8 mins anyway!) boiled eggs(which I never have on my part as I don't really like them!!)

poached salmon flaked on top.

With tuna (when not pg!) I griddle it v rare and slice and place on top.

[katkinn]

tinned tuna in oil,

god no - only fit for cats (of the feline variety) One of the most minging food stuff known to man!!

[Damsella]

Maybe so katkinn, but it is the original and traditional ingredient for tuna nicoise

[katkinn]

Maybe so katkinn, but it is the original and traditional ingredient for tuna nicoise

That will be why I always have salmon nicoise.

[book_lover]

Thanks - will put red onion in too! Do you do the eggs for 8 minutes FROM COLD, or into boiling water katkinn?

we also have a shedload of parsley in the greenhouse so that's great!

xxx

ps I used to think that about tuna in oil (well it's ok in tuna mayo....) until I got this AWThomson recipe for pasta with (very posh) yellowfin tuna in olive oil, tinned. It's got sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, basil, shedloads of parmesan, chilli flakes. Yummy

[Angel]

ooh yum ! I rarely make tuna nicoise but nearly always salmon nicoise with just a roasted salmon fillet.

Salad leaves
Steamed green beans
New pots
Hard boiled eggs
Red onion
Quartered tomatoes
Salmon fillet

I will hold my hands up to Waitrose French dressing and no anchovies - even though I love them DH can't stand them !

[Damsella]

I hope you girls buy North Atlantic line-caught salmon for your salmon nicoise, not nasty farmed salmon

[book_lover]

Damz, I live in the heart of river salmon country and can I get wild caught salmon round here? Can I feck. It's mostly all farmed Even in the finest seafood restaurants, they give you farmed

Well it was scrummy! And had the following:

- salad leaves (from a friend's polytunnel)
- olives (from a jar )
- hard boiled eggs - slightly soft, will make them even more soft centred next time
- anchovy fillets
- steamed green beans
- new potatoes (from our garden!)
- chopped up tomatoes
- half moon slivers of red onion
- griddled tuna fillets - rare in theory but some was cooked through. will just sear it next time
- dressing made in a jar with olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, dijon mustard and LOADSA (to use a Jamie expression!) herbs - namely curly and flat leaf parsley.

The plate was jam packed and so I saved half for my lunch tomorrow. Also, they were doing cheap corn cobs in Sainsbury's so have made a mahoosive pot of sweetcorn chowder (it's so yellow and creamy ) which will be spiked with chopped spinach. So I have the fabbest 2 stage lunch tomorrow

xxxxx