Name: Salade Niçoise
Yield: Serves 4 to 5
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 1 handful lightly cooked runner or French beans from your garden; Hearts of 2–3 real lettuce: crisp leaves that are curled tightly together in a monochrome of green (not Chinese leaves, icebergs); 5 fl oz (150 ml) glistening black olives (if packed in brine, drain, dry and marinate in olive oil); 1 tin sardines in olive oil; 4 oz (125 g) tinned anchovy fillets in olive oil; 9 oz (275 g) tinned tuna fish in olive oil; 2 green tomatoes, sliced; 8 ripe tomatoes, sliced; 5–6 tablespoons olive oil; 8 free-range eggs, hard-boiled and halved; ½ teaspoon ground sea salt

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 5

Difficulty
Easy

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Floyd on France

By Keith Floyd

Published 1987

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Ingredients

Hearts of 2–3 real lettuce: crisp leaves that are curled tightly together in a monochrome of green (not Chinese leaves, icebergs)
1 handful <

Method

Wash and thoroughly dry the lettuce and put into a large salad bowl. Add the beans, tomatoes, sea salt and olive oil. With your fingers, gently turn the salad until everything is coated with oil and salt.

Add all the other ingredients and, again with your fingers, carefully mix them together. As you lift your fingers from the bowl, bring the eggs and olives to the top as if you were flu

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