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Recipes Paul Bocuse |
Nice-style Salad
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Salad |
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In a few words
"Here is a dish that has suffered so many misinterpretations that it has become something of a catch-phrase, niçoise in name only.
In the beginning it included tomatoes, a mixture of wild salad greens known as mesclun, white onions and anchovies.
Depending on the season, little artichokes, tender fava beans, and bell peppers might be added.
Make sure you include hard-cooked eggs, the famous little black olives from Nice, and a dressing made with a good Mediterranean olive oil.
Today tuna, potatoes, rice, and even corn show up in this salad.
Why not add lobster and truffles, to boost the price? That would not necessarily be bad, it just would not be niçoise.
Nonetheless, the addition of a few fresh green beans, cooked crisp-tender at the last moment, would be acceptable, particularly if you can not find fresh fava beans."
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Cooking preparation
2 heures
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Recipes
"Cook the eggs in a saucepan of boiling salted water for 10 minutes.
Rinse immediately under cold water to facilitate peeling.
Drain and peel.
Rinse, drain and quarter the tomatoes.
Salt lightly.
Shell the fava beans and plunge them into a saucepan of boiling water for 1 minute.
Drain and rinse under cold water to refresh, and remove their skins.
Rinse the cucumber and slice into very thin rounds.
Rinse, drain, and seed the peppers.
Slice thinly.
Trim the onions and slice thinly.
Peel the outer leaves from the artichokes, keeping only the hearts, and cut them into thin slices.
Cut the anchovy fillets in thirds.
Cut the garlic clove in half and rub it over the sides and bottom of a salad bowl.
Cut the hard-cooked eggs in quarters.
Add them to the salad bowl along with the fava beans, cucumber, peppers, onions, artichokes, anchovy fillets, and olives.
Drain the tomatoes thoroughly, resalt them lightly and drain again.
Add them to the salad bowl.
Remove the leaves from the basil and chop them finely.
Combine in a small bowl with salt, freshly ground pepper, and olive oil.
Pour this dressing over the salad and toss gently.
Chill until ready to serve."
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"4 eggs
9 large tomatoes or 18 small plum tomatoes
Salt
1 pound fresh fava beans
1 cucumber
2 green bell peppers
6 spring onions
6 small purple artichokes
12 flat anchovy fillets
1 clove garlic
3/4 cup (3 1/2 ounces) black niçoise or Mediterranean-style olives
6 stems fresh basil
Freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup olive oil
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