Salade Niçoise

Ingredients (4 pers.):

- 1 salad: Scarola or Curly lettuce
- 1 cucumber
- 8 tomatoes
- 4 boiled eggs
- 1 celery
- 3 artichokes
- 1 green pepper (favorable the long one)
- 200g tuna (nature or olive oil)
- 1 bunch of radish
- 1 bunch of basil
– Black olives
- Olive oil, vinegar (favorable balsamic vinegar)
- 1 tsp of anchovy paste
- Salt, black pepper

My recipe:

- Some salted smoked herrings
- Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Sauce: mix olive oil with vinegar (3:1 or 4:1 tea spoon) and anchovy paste, season salt and pepper to your taste.

My style: 1 tsp of mayonnaise and some juice from the can of tuna, mix well the sauce.

Cut all the ingredients into small pieces
Take the inferior part of the artichokes and cut them into 4.
Add tuna, basil and then, dress with the sauce.
For each plate, cut a boiled egg into 4 and put them on top.

My style: put some herrings on top, 2 to 4 slices.