Yesterday evening – 3rd evening of eating out on the balcony – been busy with getting everything up to scratch with my itinerary … so I didn’t bother go shopping for dinner.
So I looked through larder and freezer, and I was able to do the first tuna salad or Niçoise Salad for this year – it’s a salad that belongs to my balcony – and I eat it often during the summer months, never eaten indoors here in Landskrona with me as a lonely diner
So a can of tuna in oil was my base … don’t like tuna in bairn – taste like sticking the tongue through the window.
Larder Tuna salad, serve 1 person
1 can tuna in oil (170gr/6oz)
¼ romaine lettuce head, hand ripped
4 large radishes, sliced
70 gr (2.5oz) frozen green beans
3 small skin on potatoes, cut in half
1/3 red onion, finely sliced
1 tomato – cut in chunks
¼ yellow pepper in thin strips
8 greek black olives.
1 egg, soft boiled
freshly ground black pepper
vinaigrette dressing, warm
I suppose every body know how to do … this salad, but I use only one pot – I drain the tuna 1/2 hour in advance. I scrape the potatoes slightly instead of peel so they get that new potato look and boil them whole with skin on.
Boil for 10 min in salted water – then I add the washed egg .. to the pot – boil for an other 5 min and then I add the frozen green beans and after 4 min more of boiling – everything ready and perfect. Drain it all and cool down the egg and beans under cold running water – it makes the egg easier to peel and the green beans keep their color. I use the potatoes warm and I warm the vinaigrette dressing up for a 30 seconds in the micro wave.
This bowl was all mine – and as always I really enjoy this cheap and quick dish and it’s full of summer for me. Today we where blessed with +28C/82.4F
“Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life”
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Your salad looks like perfection on a plate to me.
Thank you so much for your kind words – have to blow my own trumpet here; I’m very good on salads/starters and dessert.
Hi,
This sounds like a very nice tuna salad, and it does look delicious as well. 🙂
Yes, it’s a great salad – if I want to be posh .. I buy fresh tuna or frozen – but a can works fine too.
Looks like you have brought summer into your kitchen as ingredient my friend – stunning 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Yes, full summer outside … full summer inside at Östergtan. Thanks …
Sadly I don’t like canned tuna. I do like the idea of cooking the potatoes, eggs and beans in the same pan like that.
I prefer fresh or frozen tuna … but canned is okay too – hate washing up, that’s why I do it – 3 pots for a salad … not for this chef.
This recipe is really helpful! Since I’m on diet for for the wedding I’ll be attending next month! 🙂
You can’t only live on salads .. or maybe you can. It’s easy and very tasteful even if canned tuna is used – the warm dressing and potatoes make it really yummy.
i love these salads also. one of my favorites!
Yes, it’s a great salad and so easy to. Can really put anything into it.
i would add some mushrooms too!
I can be there in about two days. Save me a plate. Looks delish. Reminds me a bit of niccoise. Yum and as always your pictures are excellent.
Thank you so much … it’s a Niccoise as you call it – the way you get it in Nice, where it comes from.
2 days .. I can get fresh tuna maybe.
Well, it looks wonderful. I used to make those often and now I want to do it again.
Can’t say how many I eat through the summer … on my balcony – about 10 per month … wild guess and it fills me up, but I make them big salads.
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This is one of my most favorite salads. Your picture is beautiful.
Libby, thank you so much ….the salad looks so much better full of sunshine.
Sounds like a perfect summer salad.
It’s the best summer salad there is .. and it reminds me about Nice on the French Rivera.
On the same page… But was out of tuna. We had salad topped with sardines and poached egg 🙂
Sardins …. my summer favorite too – never eaten with poached egg – have to try that. Love my grilled like they do in the Basque – they taste so good down there.
I love tuna. And I had TOTAL confidence you could make a feast. I was right. ❤
So do I .. and I eat in the winter too … it would have been pretty bad if I couldn’t make a tuna salad. Bad enough with my omelets. *laughing
😀 But YOUR tuna salad looks like a feast. 🙂
Colleen, it’s on the menu for your visit. *smile Thank you!
YES! 😉