Take a famous salad of hard boiled eggs, olives, tomatoes, green beans, tuna, anchovies and potatoes, put it inside a round bread and what do you have? What does it mean?

pollucci19

The salad described is the ‘Salad Nicoise’. When it is placed into a ‘circle of bread’ it becomes, what is called, a ‘Pan Bagnat’. Essentially a tuna fish sandwich. The name comes from a Provencal dialect called ‘Nissart’ and means ‘wet bread’ Both the Pan Bagnat and the Salad Nicoise have links to the French city of Nice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-bagnat http://www.easy-french-food.com/tuna-fish-sandwich-recipe.html Sep 16 08, 10:37 PM

edmund80

Yes ! Many recipes, including the one below, suggest using canned tuna. To make it even better use grilled tuna instead, which is what a real salade Niçoise has anyway. http://www.francemonthly.com/n/1102/recipe.php Sep 17 08, 2:17 PM