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    Tuna Quinoise Salad {recipe}


    tuna quinoise, nicoise quinoa

    Tuna "Quinoise" (Quinoa Niçoise) Salad {recipe}

    There is no real "recipe" for this, just suggested amounts for ingredients, many of which can be substituted, omitted, and adjusted.

    serves 2-4

    INGREDIENTS

    2 cups cooked quinoa
    4 hard boiled eggs, coarsely chopped
    1 medium sweet potato, roasted, cooled and cut into ¾-inch cubes
    2 handfuls haricot verts (thin green beans), lightly blanched, trimmed, and cut into 1-inch lengths
    quarter red onion, sliced paper thin cross-wise, and soaked in cold water for about 15 minutes
    2 cups oil-packed tuna
    2-4 handfuls wild arugula
    handful olives (any kind, though the obvious choice here is Niçoise olives)
    Anchovy Garlic Vinaigrette
    optional (if you have them): drained and rinsed capers, fresh ripe tomatoes, sliced radishes
    salt and pepper to taste

    DIRECTIONS

    Place all the salad ingredients together in a large bowl. Drizzle about ¼ cup of Anchovy Vinaigrette. Gently toss. Until ingredients are combined and vinaigrette is well-distributed. Taste. Adjust with additional vinaigrette, salt, and/or pepper as needed.

    The salad, if not over-dressed, will keep in the refrigerator, tightly covered, for about a day.

    tuna quinoise, nicoise quinoa

    Resources and Notes

    ~ quinoa: I buy organic quinoa from the bulk bins at Whole Foods Market
    ~ oil packed tuna: gourmet/specialty retailers have good Italian and Spanish olive-oil packed tunas, but if you can only get to a regular grocery store, try Wild Planet. If you're really ambitious, you can try poaching fresh tuna yourself in olive oil. Good luck with that. Seriously.
    ~ Anchovy Vinaigrette: recipe here, or alternatively, you can skip the vinaigrette, add whole anchovies to the salad, and dress it all with some olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

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    1. Lori Yates says

      March 06, 2013 at 7:17 pm

      Beautiful! And love the fun name!

      Reply
    2. Ahu @ ahueats.com says

      March 07, 2013 at 8:16 am

      I'm obsessed with tuna niçoise and I also love quinoa ! This looks great!

      Reply
    3. DHo says

      March 07, 2013 at 3:23 pm

      Can I be in this rut with you??

      Reply
    4. [email protected] says

      March 20, 2013 at 11:05 am

      Love this idea! I do a roasted Nicoise with burrata and parsley pistou, but I MUST try this soon as I am a real quinoa-head

      Reply

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