Elevate your weekday meals with a delicious new salad recipe!
Thinking of changing up your regular salad dish to something more elaborate and flavoursome? The Nicoise Salad is a delicious alternative to your typical plain salads. A classic Nicoise is composed of three core ingredients: tomatoes, anchovies and olive oil, but has now evolved into a flexible composition. In this recipe, this Nicoise Salad is composed of the core ingredients with additions of hard-boiled eggs, baby potatoes, capers, additional fresh veggies and pan-fried garlic butter prawns. This recipe is great to serve on a beautiful serving bowl. Or, if you're entertaining, use colourful side plates to add a pop of colour to the table. We used the Le Creuset Riviera plates to greet our guests with summery vibes on the table.
Prep time: 45min | Cooking time: 30mins | Serves: 6-8Ingredients:
- 700g prawns, cleaned
- Garlic butter, to fry
For the salad:
- 700g baby potatoes, peeled and boiled
- 1 red onion, sliced
- 2 medium-boiled free-range eggs, halved or quartered
- Watercress or baby spinach
- 100g capers, rinsed
- 150g fine green beans, blanched
- Radish, thinly sliced
For the dressing:
- 2 – 4 anchovy fillets
- 60ml olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 15ml wholegrain mustard
- 10g finely chopped dill
- Salt and pepper
- Melba toasts or croutons, to serve
Method:
- Prepare the dressing. Whisk the ingredients for the dressing together and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Toss the boiled baby potatoes and red onion in the dressing and allow to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
- Arrange the watercress or baby spinach on the Le Creuset Riviera Collection Appetiser Plates. Top with the potatoes, onions, capers, beans, and radishes.
- Just before serving: Heat garlic butter in a cast-iron skillet or non-stick pan and fry the prawns, turning once, in batches, until coral pink and cooked through. Be sure not to overcrowd the pan as you need to retain the heat, and the prawns should not boil or steam.
- Arrange the prawns onto the salad and serve with melba toasts or croutons.
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