Nearly Nicoise salad?

Happy enough to call this a nicoise salad? There’s tuna, egg, all the vegetable elements so why not… The only difference is the dressing, its somewhere between a tonato sauce or Caesar salad dressing. It works perfectly for this salad.

Salad dressing (4 portions)

100g Tuna
100g Grapeseed oil
3 Anchovy fillets
20g Capers
½ Garlic (clove)
½ Lemon (zest + juice)
1 Egg yolk
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Water
Salt + pepper

1. Add all of the ingredients into the blender and slowly add the oil to make a thick dressing. Taste and add more seasoning if needed. If the dressing is too thick add a little water. It should be a similar consistency to tomato ketchup.

Salad (1 portion)

1 Boiled egg (10 minutes)
Baby spinach
Treviso
Fennel
Cucumber
Tomato
Radish
Tuna
Nicoise olives
Dressing (from above)
Olive oil
Shallot (salted for 10 minutes)
Black pepper

1. Wash and cut all of the vegetables. Add to a large bowl with the dressing and half of the tuna.

2. Plate up, top with more tuna, olives and grated hard-boiled egg. Finish with some good quality olive oil and black pepper.