Salmon Salad Niçoise
This Salmon Salad Niçoise is a scrumptious twist on the French classic, replacing the tuna with grilled salmon. The Omega-3 fatty acids in the seafood make it a heart-healthy dish that doesn’t taste like health food!
Salmon Salad Niçoise
Typically made with canned tuna, I actually prefer my version with rare ahi tuna or grilled salmon. Niçoise translates to “prepared in Nice,” so you’d find this dish on the menu across the French Riviera.
The integral components of any “Niçoise” dish are tomatoes, black olives, garlic and anchovies. Hard boiled eggs, potatoes, green beans are typical additions to this salad.
Since I took liberties with my seafood, I also tweaked the ingredients, adding hearts of palm, red bell pepper and swapped out the Niçoise olives for Kalamata. Instead of adding anchovies to the salad, I utilized anchovy paste in the dressing as it offered that umami that most wouldn’t realize had a seafood origin.
The results were extraordinary! Who wouldn’t want to dive into this vibrant salad???
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Salmon Salad Niçoise
A twist on the Classic Salad Nicoise using salmon instead of tuna
Ingredients
- 2 six-ounce salmon filets
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- seasoning salt
- black pepper
- 2 cups of arugula or other greens
- 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced
- 1 cup thin green beans, blanched (haricots vert)
- 1/4 cup black olives
- 4 new potatoes, cooked and cooled, cut in half
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half
- 4 hard-boiled eggs, cut in half
- 2 spears hearts of palm, sliced
Dressing (you may want to double if you like more dressing on your salad)
- 1/8 cup champagne vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon anchovy paste
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup olive oil
Instructions
- Brush salmon with olive oil and season well with seasoning salt and pepper. Grill or broil, 10-15 minutes or till done to your taste. Let come to room temperature or chill.
- To prepare salad, place bed of greens on serving platter. Arrange all the rest of the salad ingredients in sections around perimeter of plate, leaving center open for the salmon.
- You may cover and chill at this point.
- Make dressing by whisking together vinegar, mustard, anchovy paste and pepper. Drizzle in olive oil, whisking constantly till dressing emulsifies.
- Before serving, drizzle salad with dressing.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
2Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 1161Total Fat: 67gSaturated Fat: 12gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 49gCholesterol: 481mgSodium: 846mgCarbohydrates: 80gFiber: 15gSugar: 11gProtein: 64g
33 Comments on “Salmon Salad Niçoise”
Love that you made this with salmon! It’s delicious for spring!
Oh Liz, the vibrant colours of all the vegetables in this salad are just making my mouth water… and I love the use of salmon too. Perfect.
Presentation is beautiful. Wish you could do my food styling for me, Liz. 😉
Beautiful!
I heart nicoise salad very much, its a big hit in my household, although we mix it up with tuna steaks sometimes. Such a pretty dish, and great for you too. Shall have to whip up this dish soon.
what a fancy but perfect Nicose!! 🙂 I love the use of salmon in it and glad you didnt ditch the anchovies, they are my favorite part!
I love Nicoise salad … so many great ingredients all together in one place!
I confess that I’ve never ordered (or made that I know of) a salad Nicoise before. Your version is so colorful and vibrant I kind of want to eat my screen! Pinning so I can finally give a Nicoise salad a try.
Looks beautiful, delish and summery!
Love the healthy food that doesn’t taste to health recipes ! I think is a good idea changed the saumon for the tuna. Very nice recipe Liz 🙂
LIzzy,
I only eat tuna out of a can so I much prefer your salmon version. The red peppers add a great burst of color too.
Annamaria
This is my kind of eating healthy!
That dressing sounds really good, I like the idea of using anchovy paste. That looks like an awesome healthy salad – I love it when there is a little bit of everything in one meal!