Chicken Nicoise Salad

Submitted by luvcookn

"A la nicoise is a French phrase that means "as prepared in Nice", typifying the cuisine found in and around Nice. A nicoise salad typically contains tuna which can be substituted for the chicken in this recipe."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• Dijon Vinaigrette

• 2⁄3 cup vegetable oil
• 1⁄4 cup tarragon vinegar
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, chopped OR
• 1 teaspoon dried tarragon

• Salad

• 4 medium new potatoes, cut into quarters
• 10 ounces green beans
• 6 cups bibb lettuce, bite-size pieces
• 2 cups cooked chicken, cut up
• 2 medium tomatoes, cut into wedges
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, cut into wedges
• 1⁄4 cup pitted whole ripe olives

directions

1. Prepare Dijon Vinaigrette.
2. Place potatoes and enough water to cover in 2 qt saucepan.
3. Heat to boiling.
4. Cook over medium heat 10 - 15 minutes or until potatoes are almost tender.
5. Stir in green beans.
6. Cook 5 minutes longer; drain.
7. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
8. Arrange lettuce on large serving platter.
9. Top with chicken.
10. Arrange potatoes, beans, tomatoes, eggs and olives around edge of platter.
11. Drizzle with vinaigrette.

Reviews

[FLKeysJen]

Love, love this dressing! It's tough to find really good salad dressings that don't have sweetener. I used 1/2 cup safflower oil instead of the 2/3 cup. In my grocery store, the Bibb lettuce is labeled as Boston lettuce - thought I would mention that in case someone else also can't find it.

 

[LifeIsGood]

Excellent!! I love Nicoise salads and I love the dressing on this one. I thought I had tarragon vinegar in my pantry, but I must have thrown it out. I used rice wine vinegar and it was still an outstanding dressing. I used pitted kalamata olives. The flavor combination is delicious. Don't omit a thing! For these reasons, I'm tucking this recipe into my best-of-the-best file.

 

[Maito]

We love entree salads, especially variations on the Nicoise. For our tastes I halved the oil, omitted the mustard, eggs and tarragon and added blue cheese. Manzanilla green olives were great in this, but Kalamatas would be a good choice too. All the flavors come together to make an extremely delicious salad!