Sweet Potato Salad Niçoise, paleo, GF
We've always love, love, loved Salad Niçoise. It’s fresh, it’s filling and it’s satisfying. It reminds us of so many nice things… France, gardens, and our family.
Our mom makes a great version of this salad, much like this one, but made with white potatoes and it’s fantastically satisfying. We had not attempted to paleo-ize her salad until recently and we loved the result so much that we ate it three times in one week!
This Sweet Potato Salad Niçoise is simple to make, which is great, especially because we've been pretty tired lately.
The culprit is Downton Abbey. We've been watching it like it’s our job and so we haven’t been sleeping as much as we should. (we're shaking a finger at myself as we type this)…
But why have we never watched this show before? We're obsessed!
Anyways…what’s great about this salad is that you can totally customize it to your tastes. You like beets? Great! Feel like some green peppers? Add them in!
As you can see, we didn’t add anchovies, olives, or green beans, which traditionally are in a Salad Niçoise.
We did add red pepper, orange pepper, broccoli slaw, salad, tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, pomegranate and cucumbers though. 🙂
The sweet potato tuna salad part of this Salad Niçoise really makes the whole dish.
It tastes great warm or cold. We tend to like it warm for dinner and cold for lunch. Yuuuum!
We just love taking a bite (or two or three) right after the sweet potatoes, tuna, onions, and dressing have been mixed together. Can’t get enough.
Raw white onions might seem harsh for a salad, but they really makes the salad come together and taste satisfying.
Lighter dinner for two?
Note: you may need more or less dressing depending on how many potatoes you use, so start with some and test out the flavor until you like it.
Also, if you only want to make this salad for 2 people, cut all the proportions in half.
Prep 10 minutesCook 20 minutesTotal 30 minutesMakes 4
Ingredients
- 4 large sweet potatoes,, sliced into ½ inch slices
- 1 cup of diced white onion
- 14 ounces canned tuna,, flaked with a fork to separate
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- 2 Tbs mustard, (we used Kroger Horseradish Mustard because it’s Paleo)
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground pepper
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- 1 large cucumber,, sliced
- 1 red pepper,, sliced
- 1 orange pepper,, sliced
- 4 small tomatoes,, sliced
- a handful of broccoli slaw, (we got ours at Trader Joes)
- 4 hard boiled eggs,, sliced
- a handful of pomegranate seeds
Method
- Fill a big pot with water and a dash of salt and heat over high heat until it boils. Reduce the heat to medium-high and put the sliced sweet potatoes inside. Let the sweet potatoes cook for 18 minutes.
- While the sweet potatoes cook, make the dressing by mixing the olive oil, apple cider vinegar, mustard, salt, ground pepper, and garlic powder together in a bowl. Set the dressing aside.
- Drain the sweet potatoes using a strainer.
- Cut each slice of sweet potato into 4 cubes and put into a large bowl.
- Cover the sweet potatoes with the tuna, diced onion, and the dressing and then mix with two large spoons until everything is mixed. Let the sweet potato tuna salad sit.
- While the sweet potato tuna salad sits, prepare each plate with some cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, broccoli slaw, hard boiled eggs and pomegranates (or any vegetable or salad companion of your choice!)
- Then top it all with some of the Sweet Potato Tuna Salad.
- Add salt and pepper to your liking and Enjoy!
