Salade Niçoise Or "Salad From Nice" (France) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 lb new potato
    2 eggs, hard cooked
    4 ounces French style green beans
    6 tomatoes, cut into quarters
    2 ounces anchovies, drained and sliced in half lengthwise
    1 head lettuce, leaves washed and patted dry
    3 tablespoons olive oil
    3 teaspoons white wine vinegar (plain white or apple cider vinegars can be used)
    1/2 teaspoon French mustard
    salt, to taste
    pepper, to taste
    14 ounces tuna fish, drained
    2 ounces pitted black olives
Preparation
    Scrub the potatoes and cook them in a pot of boiling water for 15 minutes or until tender. Drain and let cool.
    Trim the ends off the beans. Cook them in boiling water for 5 minutes then rinse with cold water.
    Slice the potatoes.
    Arrange lettuce leaves on the bottom of a large salad bowl.
    Put the potatoes on top of the lettuce.
    Sprinkle the tuna on top of the potatoes & lettuce.
    Sprinkle on the beans, tomatoes and anchovies.
    In a jar with a tight-fitting lid: Put olive oil, vinegar, mustard, salt & pepper. Shake well to combine.
    Drizzle over salad.
    Slice the hard-cooked eggs into quarters & arrange them and the olives on top of the salad.
    Serve & enjoy!

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