Nicoise Salad

As promised last week here is one of our staples during the summer. I sometimes substitute the traditional tuna for some home smoked mackerel as in this case. Otherwise bar the olives pretty much everything else comes straight from the garden.

You can chop and change as you please with the quantities of the varies components depending on personnel taste. I don't tend to over load it with spuds for example.

Essentially you will need:

French beans,

Baby potatoes,

Tomatoes,

Eggs,

Lettuce,

Olives,

Tuna (or smoked mackerel in this case)

And for the dressing:

100ml olive oil,

100ml sunflower oil,

100ml wine or cider vinegar,

tea spoon of mustard,

clove of garlic,

teaspoon of honey,

To make the dressing fire it all into a blender and blitz for a few seconds!

Cook the potatoes, beans and hard boil the eggs. Cool them all under the cold tap.

Next dress the lettuce with the dressing. Place at the bottom of the bowl. The potatoes need to be dressed next before putting into the bowl. The tomatoes and french beans go on top. Sprinkle the rest of the dressing over the salad now before adding some olives, quartered hard boiled eggs and fish.

Couldn't be simpler!