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Salade Niçoise
Preparation info
Serves
Four to Six
Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
A Long and Messy Business
By Rowley Leigh
Published 2018
This salad is as much about tomatoes as anything else. Deep red, rich, sweet and fragrant tomatoes are an absolute must. Simon cooks his eggs soft-boiled and I have cooked mine hard. I would not go to war over that one.
Ingredients
6 6 1 - red wine vinegar
Method
Remove the cores from the tomatoes by gouging them out with the point of a small sharp knife. Plunge the tomatoes into plenty of boiling water for 15 seconds, then drop into a bowl of iced water and leave until completely cold before removing the skins. Cook the eggs in a pan of boiling water for 8 minutes, then plunge into a bowl of cold water. Shell the eggs, taking care to rinse away any fra