Salade Nicoise

Ingredients

• 1 pound red-skinned potatoes, sliced 1/3 inch thick
• Kosher salt
• 2 tbs dry white wine
• 10 oz haricots verts or thin green beans, trimmed
• 4 large eggs
• ¼ C white wine vinegar
• ½ shallot, minced (about 2 tbs)
• 2 tbs dijon mustard
• 1 tbs chopped fresh thyme
• Freshly ground pepper
• ¾ C extra-virgin olive oil
• 8 cherry tomatoes or small cocktail tomatoes, halved or quartered
• 1 head Boston lettuce, leaves separated
• 6 radishes, trimmed and quartered
• 2 5½ oz cans Italian or Spanish tuna packed in olive oil, drained
• ½ C Nicoise olives

Directions

1. Cover the potatoes with cold water in a medium saucepan and season with salt.
2. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat and cook until fork-tender, about 5 minutes.
3. Drain and transfer to a medium bowl, drizzle with the wine, and let cool. Reserve the saucepan.
4. Meanwhile, bring a separate saucepan of salted water to a boil and fill a bowl with salted ice water.
5. Add the haricots verts to the boiling water and cook until crisp-tender and bright green, 2 to 4 minutes.
6. Drain and immediately plunge into the ice water to cool; drain and pat dry.
7. Place the eggs in the reserved saucepan and cover with cold water by about 1 inch.
8. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, then cover, remove from the heat and let stand, 10 to 12 minutes.
9. Drain, then run under cold water to cool. Peel under cold running water.
10. For the dressing, whisk the vinegar, shallot, mustard, thyme, ½ tsp salt, and pepper to taste in abow l.
11. Whisk in the olive oil in a slow, steady stream until emulsified.
12. Toss the tomatoes in a small bowl with salt and pepper to taste.
13. Add about ¼ C dressing to the potatoes and toss.
14. Quarter the hard-cooked eggs.
15. Divide the lettuce among 4 plates.
16. Arrange the potatoes, haricots verts, radishes, hard-cooked eggs and tuna on top.
17. Pour any juices from the tomatoes into the dressing, then add the tomatoes to the plates.
18. Drizzle with the dressing and top with the olives.