Bistro Chicken Liver Salad

Composed salads are a staple of old-fashioned French bistro menus, especially at lunchtime. In many, tasty little morsels of some part of a bird are the meaty flourish added to a good green salad—often with those skinny green beans the French love, a crouton or two, and maybe some lardons for good measure. Everything is dressed with a serviceable vinaigrette.

In French, these salads always sound elegant, even if the ingredients are humble, like salade de gésiers—made with duc