Fresh Salmon Salad Nicoise

Submitted by MrsDoty

"Adapted from Better Homes and Gardens. It's a great salad for a hot summer day."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 2

ingredients

• 6 ounces frozen salmon fillets
• 3⁄4 lb red new potato
• 3⁄4 pickling cucumber, sliced and quartered
• 1⁄2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved halved or 1/2 cup yellow pear tomato, halved
• 20 -30 nicoise olives
• 1⁄2 small red onion, thinly sliced and separated into rings
• 2 tablespoons lemon-nut vinaigrette (I use recipe 180528)
• 2 cups torn mixed greens
• 2 hard-cooked eggs, cut into wedges
• 2 tablespoons lemon-nut vinaigrette
• 2 pinches seasoning salt

directions

1. Thaw fish, if frozen. Place fish steak on the greased unheated rack of a broiler pan. Broil 4 inches from the heat for 5 minutes. Turn fish and broil for 3 to 7 minutes more or just until fish begins to flake easily. Cool to room temperature. Break or cut salmon into large chunks. (You should have about 1 cup.).
2. Cut the potatoes into cubes. Place the cubes in a microwave safe dish, sprinkle with seasoned salt, and cover with plastic wrap. Cook on your microwave's potato setting, or 3-4 minutes on high.
3. In a medium bowl combine the potatoes, cucumbers, cherry or pear tomatoes, olives, and red or white onion. Pour the vinaigrette over the vegetable mixture. Toss to coat.
4. Divide the mixed greens between 2 individual plates. Spoon the vegetable mixture over the greens. Arrange the salmon or tuna and the hard-cooked egg on top of the vegetables. Drizzle with vinaigrette. Serves 2 generously.

Reviews

[BreadMeister]

Great summer meal. My husband loves Salad Nicoise but I had never prepared it at home. 6 ounces of salmon is plenty for two salads and the recommendations for microwaving the potatoes worked very well. They were al dente but plenty done. I will be serving this regularly.

 

[Doreen in CA]

This was wonderful! It looks so appealing and it tastes great! I made it according to the recipe and used the lemon-nut vinaigrette. Yum! This would be an excellent dish for company.

 

[Sharon123]

What a great dinner I had tonight! A meal in itself! I left out the cucumber(forgot to get one), and used regular vine tomatoes, cut up. I halved the recipe using leftover pepper-crusted salmon and boy was this good! Thank you so much! Oh, and used your lemon nut vinaigrette, delish!

 

[heymom]

Absolutely delicious! Even my teen that won't eat cucumbers and usually balks at salads has asked me to make this twice now. I didn't have the ingredients to make the viniagrette the first go-round and used a basil balsam vinegar/oil instead. Am making this again tonight and will try the lemon-nut vinaigrette. This is a wonderful dish, easy and fast to prepare, too. Many thanks!