Fricassee salad

This salad is a deconstruction of Tunisian fricassee: a fried bun stuffed with tuna, harissa, olives, anchovies, a spicy pumpkin relish, pickled lemon, cooked potato and hard-boiled egg. We are not quite sure how it got to signify something so different from the common French term ‘fricassée’, which is a type of meat stew, but the resemblance to another French classic, Niçoise salad, is no coincidence and is evidence of the interaction between French and Tunisian cuisines during the years o