Tuna Nicoise Salad
12 ingredients · 35 minutes· 2 servings
Are you looking for a tasty & easy meal that will support your gut & weight loss goals? If you don’t like spending hours in the kitchen, this meal will be a go-to for you! By taking 30 min to prep the ingredients ahead of time, you’ll be ready to eat in 5 min during your busy week.
When you cook & cool white potatoes, they transform into a gut superfood: resistant starch. Our good gut bugs break resistant starch down & use it as fuel to provide our colon cells with the energy they need to function. This is key to healing an inflamed & leaky gut.
Resistant starch also helps to curb blood sugar spikes that can accompany higher glycemic foods & it makes us feel more satiated after eating, which has a big impact on weight loss.
Cooked & cooled potatoes become a gut superfood: resistant starch.
Directions
Boil the potatoes & steam the beans until tender.
Thinly slice the onion & halve the tomatoes.
Prep the dressing: combine the olive oil, lemon juice, salt & Dijon in a small bowl.
Now assemble your plate! Make a bed of lettuce, add ½ the tuna & eggs. Then add as many potatoes, beans & tomato as you like. Sprinkle with the onion, olives & dressing to taste.
Ingredients
1 can tuna (see notes)
½ lb or 1 ½ cups new potatoes
2 cups green or yellow beans, trimmed
¼ cup red onion
1 cup cherry tomato
3 hard boiled eggs, peeled & halved
¼ cup black olives
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp Dijon mustard
Lettuce
Notes
Tuna - My favourite is Safe Catch Foods Skipjack Tuna. Conventional brands pre-cook fish on racks, draining away healthy nutrients and Omega 3 oils. It is then packed in water, oil or often a GMO broth and cooked again. Safe Catch does it differently. They hand pack raw, sashimi-grade fish in the can and then slow cook each one to perfection in its own natural juices. This retains 100% of the tuna’s vital oils and freshness. You do not need to drain this stuff & I find it needs very little added fat compared to conventional canned tuna.
Make Ahead - I like to prep the veggies & eggs when I have more time (ie. on the weekend) and I make extras. Then I have the ingredients for this salad plus enough potatoes for Crispy Smashed Potatoes, beans as a side to my lunch & eggs for grab & go snacks!
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