4 low salad nicoise Recipes

green beans, halved, mixed salad greens, lebanese cucumber, sliced, tomatoes, quartered, yellow fin tuna , slices in olive oil with chili, anchovies , halved lengthways, hard-boiled eggs , then cut into quarters, radish (optional), black olives, salt & ground black pepper, olive oil drained from can tuna, garlic cloves, crushed or 1 tsp garlic powder, white wine vinegar

french baguettes (or 6 french rolls, such as pain du campagne also known as country bread ), garlic clove, cut in half, red wine vinegar, low-fat plain yogurt, head loose leaf lettuce, chopped small, carrots, peeled and grated, tomato, firm but ripe, diced, cucumber, diced (sometimes i substitute cornichons or capote capers), green bell pepper, diced, eggs, hard-boiled and sliced, fresh tuna, cooked (or equivalent good-quality canned tuna, drained), anchovy fillets, rinsed and chopped (optional), red wine vinegar, garlic clove, finely minced, dijon mustard , to taste, salt, freshly cracked black pepper, fresh herbs, not dried (for example, basil, parsley, thyme, tarragon-1 herb alone or in combination), extra virgin olive oil, low-fat plain yogurt

sized unpeeled purple potatoes (use yukon gold or peeled idaho as substitutes), red onion , roasted and coarsely chopped, tomato , roasted and coarsely chopped, roasted yellow bell pepper, seeded and julienned, mesclun lettuce (i.e. bibb, radicchio, arugula, baby spinach, etc.), calamata olives, pitted and finely chopped, cilantro and olive vinaigrette (see recipe below, canola oil, balsamic vinegar, chopped cilantro leaves, chopped shallots, nicoise olives, pitted and finely chopped, pommeroy mustard, honey