The classic Nicoise salad, with tinned tuna...which is all good these days. Go the fresh seared tuna if you want to get all fancy schmancy!
This is the perfect salad to package up into small containers and take with you practically anywhere. Straight from Portable Lunches (Insiders you are all over that one!!) it can now be added to your Menu Builder. I am expecting big and very organised things for your lunches this year, as reluctantly we all get back into the swing of it. Is it just me or is anyone else feeling like Christmas/summer/holidays, came and went way too quickly? I am struggling to get back into the routine of life. Maybe I should retire. I can see me doing practically nothing on a beach somewhere...well, for two weeks maybe.
Tried any of our other amazing meal salads?
Need
- 700 Grams potatoes, cut into 3–4cm pieces (or baby potatoes, halved)
- 6–8 eggs
- 300 Grams stringless green beans
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) as needed BUY
- Handfuls fresh rocket
- 3 roma tomatoes, quartered
- 1⁄2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 Handful kalamata olives
- a few capers
- 200 Grams tinned tuna
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Optional extras
- Easy Thermomix mayonnaise to serve Recipe
- 1 cucumber sliced
Do
- 1
Place potatoes into TM simmering basket. Pour 500g water into Thermomix bowl and set simmering basket into position.
- 2
Place eggs into Varoma dish and set Varoma into position. Cook potatoes and eggs 13 min/Varoma/ speed 4. (Alternatively use the egg boiling mode set to hard on the TM6)
- 3
Meanwhile, top and tail green beans and place into Varoma tray. After potato and eggs have cooked for 13 min, place Varoma tray into Varoma dish and continue to cook for a further 7 min/Varoma/speed 4.
- 4
Immediately plunge eggs and green beans into an icy water bath to cool.
- 5
Check potatoes are cooked through by piercing with a fork. If not, cook for a further 3–5 min/Varoma/speed 4.
- 6
Sprinkle the hot potatoes with olive oil and pink salt flakes.
- 7
Assemble the salad in individual bowls or as one large salad with potatoes, green beans, peeled and quartered boiled eggs, rocket, tomatoes, sliced onion, olives, capers and finishing with the tuna on top. Drizzle with a little EVOO.
- 8
Optional, serve with plenty of Easy Thermomix Mayonnaise. Add cucumber or any other desired salad ingredient.
- 9
This salad is delicious served warm or cold and the individual components will store well in the fridge for several days.
Served with
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
