Baby broad bean Niçoise
This salad is best with young broad beans that taste sweet when shelled and eaten raw. You could use larger broad beans, but it would be a good idea to cook them for a minute or two and remove their bitter outer casings.
We made this with gorgeous eggs with deep yellow yolks from the farm’s chickens and served the chopped tomatoes separately as one of the group was not a fan.
Serves four as lunch or six as part of a bigger spread
Ingredients
800g baby broad beans
½ tin pitted black olives
1 tin best quality tuna in oil
Ripe tomatoes, coarsely chopped
3 hard boiled eggs, quartered
1 lemon, juice only
Olive oil
Sea salt and pepper
What to do
Combine the beans, olives, tuna and tomatoes in a large bowl, squeeze over the lemon juice, season liberally and toss together with a generous glug of olive oil. Taste and adjust the seasonings, then scatter over the eggs when you're done.