Tuna Nicoise Salad

Tuna Nicoise Salad is a hearty, nourishing meal filled with greens, eggs, tuna, and crisp vegetables, all topped with a zesty lemon-Dijon dressing. Perfect for fertility and overall health!
Tuna Nicoise Salad recipe by Anna, fertility dietitian

SERVES: 2 | ACTIVE TIME: 5 MIN

INGREDIENTS

  • 3 hard boiled eggs
  • 2 (~5 oz) cans low-mercury tuna*, drained
  • 8 oz (~1 cup) green beans
  • 1 large tomato, cut into wedges
  • 2 cups fingerling potatoes, diced with skins left on
  • 6 cups mixed greens

Dressing:

  • 6 Tbsp olive oil
  • 3 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • salt & pepper to taste

PREPARATION

  • Blend together teriyaki sauce ingredients in blender or food processors.
  • Preheat oven to 400°F, chop veggies while oven heats. Be sure to chop sweet potato into small cubes.
  • Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Coat both sides of the chicken in half the sauce, then lay chicken out on sheet pan and bake for 15 minutes in the upper 1/3 of the oven.
  • Remove chicken from oven (carefully!), add vegetables and cashews in a single layer around the chicken (use multiple sheet pans if needed).
  • Coat veggies in remaining sauce, then bake for another 20 min until chicken is fully cooked and veggies are well browned. (Chicken is fully cooked when a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part reads 165°F)
  • Garnish with toasted sesame seeds if desired.

*SafeCatch is one brand that sells low-mercury canned tuna. In general, avoid albacore and “white” tuna and instead choose light” or “chunk” tuna.

Like this recipe? Try these tuna meatballs next time!

Anna Bohnengel
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Anna Bohnengel is a registered dietitian trained at the National Institutes of Health with a decade of experience helping restore hormone health, optimize fertility and enjoy a healthy pregnancy.

After turning her own infertility around—without the medical intervention that doctors had claimed as her only option—she developed FERTILE IN FOUR™, a holistic and results-driven coaching program that puts each woman in the driver’s seat of her own fertility.

Contact me today to learn more or to start your fertility journey