This Mediterranean dish goes well beyond being a tasty combination of certain ingredients. It celebrates simplicity, and beauty of great, sea, and garden, produce. It also changes as the seasons do. Salade Niçoise; - classic inspiration, enjoyed around The Globe. 
Adapted from nicerendezwous.com.
Ingredients - (Serves 6).
6 medium, ripe tomatoes, quartered,
1 green, bell pepper, sliced,
3 spring onions/scallions,
a few handfuls, mixed lettuce,
3 hard-boiled eggs, quartered,
1 large can of tuna (in brine), drained,
12 anchovy fillets (rinsed)
1 handful, black olives,
3 artichoke hearts, cleaned, and sliced or halved,
10 oz., blanched, green beans, or baby fava beans (shelled), 1 small cucumber, (seed part removed) sliced, a few fresh basil leaves,
Vinaigrette Dressing
1 tsp, Dijon mustard, 2 tbsp, red wine vinegar, 6 tbsp, Olive oil,
Method
(1) In a bowl, mix Vinaigrette ingredients. Reserve.
(2) Finely slice spring onions, and add them to the vinaigrette sauce, mix, and reserve.
Assemble the salad on individual plates, as follows:
(3) Place beans, and top them with lettuce.
(4) Add portion of tuna in the center, then dress with sliced cucumbers, pepper, and artichokes.
(5) Top with quartered eggs, tomatoes, anchovy fillets, olives, and basil leaves.
Serve with Vinaigrette Sauce.
Bon Appetit!
Other Notes
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(1) If you are not familiar with cups, assume an empty, 15 ½ oz. size can to have 2 cups capacity (1 cup =8oz. =227g.),
tsp. = teaspoon,
tbsp. = tablespoon,
1lb = 453 grams
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