Tuna salad - almost Niçoise

Tuna salad (almost Nicoise)

2 persons – 20 minutes

Ingredients requiring cooking:

2 or 3 eggs, to be hard-boiled 10 minutes, shelled and cut in half.

2 potatoes, to be boiled 10 minutes and cut in dice

12 broad beans, cooked for 5 minutes.

Ingredients for the vinaigrette:

2 tablespoons olive oil (taken from the tin of tuna if possible)

1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice

½ teaspoon caster sugar

1 teaspoon French mustard (moutarde de Dijon)

Ingredients for the salad:

6 cherry tomatoes

½ a red sweet pepper, deseeded and chopped

2 spring onions, chopped

2 anchovies, chopped

1 tin of tuna in olive oil, drained and flaked into pieces

1 tablespoon capers

6 black olives, destoned

Salad leaves

Preparation:

In a large bowl stir the oil and vinegar together to create a vinaigrette.

Stir in the sugar and mustard.

Add the potatoes and beans and all salad ingredients.

Serve on individual plates with the eggs alongside.