Smoked Salmon Salad (nicoise-style)

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 (10 -12 ounce) bag romaine lettuce (torn into bite-size pieces)
• 1 head butter lettuce (torn into bite-size pieces)
• 8 ounces smoked salmon (very thinly sliced)
• 1 (10 ounce) package frozen green beans (cooked, drained & chilled)
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes (halved)
• 1 small green bell pepper (cut into rings)
• 1 small red onion (sliced & separated into rings)
• 3 eggs (hard-boiled, peeled & cut into wedges)
• 3 small red potatoes (cooked, chilled & quartered)
• 1/2 cup black olives
• 3/4 cup vinaigrette dressing (bottled red wine)
• 2 tablespoons capers

Recipe

• 1 cook beans, hard-boil eggs & potatoes. set aside & allow to completely cool. while they are cooling, prepare & slice onion & bell pepper.
• 2 line a lrg platter w/lettuce & mound smoked salmon in the centre. arrange beans, tomatoes, pepper rings, onion rings, egg wedges, potatoes & olives over the lettuce & around the salmon.
• 3 cover platter & chill at least 2 hours just b4 serving, drizzle w/salad dressing & sprinkle w/capers.
• 4 hint: to easily slice smoked salmon, put it in the freezer. when nearly frozen, remove from the freezer & use your sharpest knife to shave very thin slices.