The Un-Composed (i.e., Best) Niçoise Salad

Traditionally, Niçoise salads are "composed," meaning each ingredient is artfully arranged in separate little piles on the plate. Here's the truth: That's a terrible (and lazy!) way to make a salad. This one is loaded with all the best ingredients, cooked with care, and assembled like you actually give a damn. Which you do. Your guests will thank you.

Warm Salmon Salad Nicoise

This salmon salad nicoise varies from the traditional nicoise using seared fresh salmon,asparagus and a tangy herbed lemon caper vinaigrette making a perfect dinner salad

French in a Flash: Niçoise Panzanella Bread Salad

Salade Niçoise is iconic, as is the Pan Bagnat which is just a Salade Niçoise sandwich. This is somewhere in the middle: a bread salad full of all the flavors that make a Salade Niçoise a Salade Niçoise: cherry tomatoes, tender blanched haricots verts, anchovies, garlic, lemon, olive oil, thyme, basil, and the best part, albacore in olive oil.

Nicoise Salad (French Salad with Tuna)

Nicoise Salad - Tuna salad, the French way! This is a classic made with potatoes, egg, canned tuna, tomato, cos/romaine, beans and olives.

Seared Rare Niçoise Tuna Lettuce Cups

This fun deconstructed Niçoise salad features herb-seared rare tuna tossed with potatoes, haricots verts, tomatoes, olives, anchovies, capers, and lemon-thyme citronette, all spooned into handy lettuce cups.

Grilled Chicken and Spinach Salad with Honey Mustard

Juicy chunks of mango, tangy-sweet honey mustard dressing, and crunchy pepita seeds make this chicken and spinach salad pop. It's also an easy dinner to pull together in a flash.

Seared Tuna with Niçoise Vegetables and Garlic Butter

For a light, bright summer dinner, try Niçoise salad remade as a warm main course: seared tuna, fresh herbs, potatoes, haricots verts, roasted cherry tomatoes, and butter infused with garlic, lemon, and olive oil.

Grilled Chicken Panzanella

Grilled chicken turns this summertime salad into a main course. Toasting the bread on the grill lets it sop up all of the juice from those farm fresh tomatoes without getting too mushy.

Balsamic Chicken Salad - Striped Spatula

This restaurant-inspired Grilled Balsamic Chicken Salad is loaded with Mediterranean flavors and finished with an easy-to-make balsamic vinaigrette. Prep the components ahead for lunch on-the-go.

Grilled Strawberry and Halloumi Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Making good use of the grill, this recipe combines both grilled strawberries and seared halloumi cheese with peppery arugula, spinach, mint, and a balsamic vinaigrette to create a salad with a lot of contrasts that work incredibly well together as a whole.