Salad Composee

Julia Child recipe

• Ready In: 25 mins
• Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

• Vinaigrette

• 1 -2  tablespoon  excellent wine vinegar or 1 -2  tablespoon  a combination of vinegar and lemon juice
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt

• Optional

• 1⁄4-1⁄2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 6 -8  tablespoons  best-quality olive oil or 6 -8  tablespoons  salad oil
•  fresh ground pepper

• Optional

• 1  tablespoon  minced shallots or 1  tablespoon scallions, and or   dried herbs such as tarragon or  basil

• Salad

• 440  g kidney beans, rinsed and drained
•  raw zucchini, sliced
•  raw mushrooms, sliced
•  mixed salad green
•  hard-boiled egg
•  tomatoes
•  olive
•  anchovy
•  chunks tuna or   other  fish
•  chopped parsley

Directions

1. Vinaigrette:
2. place all ingredients in a covered jar, shake vigorously to blend, and correct seasoning.
3. Marinate kidney beans, zucchini, and mushrooms in vinaigrette for 20 to 30 minutes.
4. At serving time, toss mixed salad greens in a bowl with vinaigrette and arrange around the edges of a large serving dish. Mound the beans in the center, and decorate base with groups of marinated mushrooms and zucchini interspersed with hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, olives, anchovies, chunks of tuna or other fish.
5. Pour a bit more vinaigrette over all, sprinkle with chopped parsley or other herbs.