Nicoise Salad

• Bring a medium pot of water to the boil 

• Cook the potatoes until just tender, blanch in ice water and peel and quarter.

• Top and tail the beans and boil in water for 5 minutes, blanch in ice water.

• Chop the tomatoes into quarters and add to the serving plate.

• Add the potatoes, beans, slice onion, eggs, olives and scatter over the capers.

• Coat tuna steaks in oil, salt & Pepper.

• Sear tuna on high heat for rare steaks - 1 minute per side, for cooked steaks - 5 minutes per side

• Slice the tuna to your liking and add to the plate.

Blanching is a cooking method in which usually vegetables are cooked in rapid boiling water and then immersed in ice water to stop the cooking process as quickly as possible. 

For the best hard boiled eggs, add your eggs to a pot of room temp water and bring to the boil. Immediately remove the pot from the heat and cover with a lid for 20 minutes. Cool in ice water