Dijon Mustard Dressing/Vinaigrette Traditionnelle 
The unique taste of Dijon mustard is a perennial favorite. With our genuine Dijon Mustard dressing, you can offer your guests that flavor in a delicious salad dressing. Prepared in the authentic home-style way, it adds the perfect flavor to Niçoise salads and mixed greens.
Grilled Tuna Salade Niçoise
(Serves 6-8)
The distinctive taste of Dijon mustard is a perennial favorite. Prepared in the authentic home-style way, our Dijon Mustard Dressing will add the perfect flavor to your Niçoise salads.
Ingredients
· 8 new potatoes, cooked in salted water until tender, quartered and chilled
· 8 plum tomatoes, quartered
· 2 spring onions
· 1/2 pound green beans, cooked until tender, and chilled·1 cup Life in Provence™ Dijon Mustard Dressing
· 3 fresh ahi tuna steaks (about 6 oz. each)
· 1/2 cup Life in Provence™ Niçoise Olives
· 6 hard-cooked eggs, shelled and quartered
· Anchovy fillets (optional)
Prepare the grill
In separate bowls, toss the potatoes, the tomatoes, chopped onions and the green beans each with 1/3 cup Dijon Mustard Dressing.
Cook the tuna until just cooked through, about 5 minutes on each side.
When cooked, remove from the grill and cut into small pieces.
On a large platter, arrange the vegetables and the olives, the eggs and the tuna in separate rows.
Arrange anchovies (if using) in a lattice pattern over the tuna.
Serve this salad as a main course, accompanied with crusty French bread and a nice white wine.
Variation: Instead of grilled ahi tuna steaks, substitute 12 ounces canned white tuna (drained and flaked).
Dijon Mustard Dressing is perfect with any salad with any kind of meat (chicken, turkey, bacon, ham), fish (tuna) or eggs.
Technical
Side
Ingredients:
Water, sunflower oil, old
wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, sugar, natural thickeners: xanthan and guar
gums, white pepper, lemon juice concentrate, natural color: annatto extract.
Natural Additives:
A food additive is any substance added to a food product,
either directly or indirectly, that affects its product characteristics. Food
additives play an important role because they help maintain product consistency,
palatability and wholesomeness, improve or maintain nutritional value, and
enhance or maintain the flavor of food products.
Produced from the
fermentation of corn sugar, xanthan gum
is used as a thickener, emulsifier in dairy product and dressings (it is a
water-soluble polymer).
Guar Gum is
derived from the ground endosperm of the guar plant (maceration of the seeds of
the guar plant).
Guar Gum is a
natural high molecular weight hydrocolloidal polysaccharide composed of galactan
and mannan units combined through glycosidic linkages, (galactomanan)
Dissolved in cold or hot water, guar gum forms a slime of high viscosity.
Guar Gum is generally used as an excellent and reasonable
thickener and stabilizer in many aqueous systems.
Net Weight: 250 ml (8.5 FL oz)
