Bring a little southern French sunshine to your day with this simple salade Niçoise. Salade Niçoise is a traditional salad that one can find in restaurants all over France, but especially in the south. There are many variations of the salad. The recipe in this post is especially made so that children can easily make the salad. Our recipe is inspired by a wonderful recipe in The Best Ever French Cooking Course book.

The salad could be made on one large platter, but in this recipe, we suggest making individual plates of salad. This way each plate on the table can look pretty. This recipe serves 4 people, but it is easy to adapt the recipe for fewer or additional servings.

Let’s make Salade Niçoise…

Ingredients for the salad:

Bag of salad greens (pre-washed to save time)
3-4 small tomatoes
1 cucumber
4 handfuls green beans (pre-washed and cut to save time)
several black olives
4 hardboiled eggs
2 cans tuna

Ingredients for the dressing:

1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 Tbsp. crushed garlic (pre-crushed in a jar to save time)
juice of 1 large lemon
1/2 cup olive oil
dash of black pepper

Supplies:

cutting board
knife
peeler
spoon
tablespoon
1/2 cup measuring cup
juicer
jar and cover
4 dinner plates

To make the salad, lay 4 plates on the counter. Add ingredients to the plates in the way shown below to arrange a beautiful salad on each plate.

Step 1

Place a handful of pre-washed salad greens on each plate.

Step 2

Wash and slice tomatoes.

Step 3

Place a handful of sliced tomatoes over the salad greens on each plate.

Step 4

Peel and slice the cucumber.

Step 5

Place a handful of sliced cucumbers on each plate.

Step 6

Steam the green beans (ask a adult for help with steaming). Cool the green beans with cold water, then place them in a wreath shape on top of the salad.