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Nicoise Salad for Type O

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Category:     Entree

Description:
Here's an adjusted Nicoise salad for Type O, sans the potatoes, olives and capers. It does have allowable Feta cheese which serves as a nice sharp taste that is a replacement for the nicoise olives


General applicability:

Nicoise Salad for Type O
Green: recipe contains only neutral or a beneficials ingredients for that type.
Yellow: recipe contains an secondary avoid ingredient that may be substituted by a more permissable one.
Orange: contains an avoid in a primary ingredient.



Ingredient list:
  • Assorted greens (lettuce, dandelion, parsley, romaine)
  • 1 hard boiled egg
  • 1 can tuna (or 1/2 can)
  • sliced tomato
  • small amount of blanched green beens or haricot vert
  • 1 Tablespoon crumbled feta cheese
  • anchovies (only if you like them)
  • 1 Tablespoon fresh parsley
  • firm tofu (optional replacement for potato)
  • (dressing, and this is a typical Nicoise dressing)
  • 2 Tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 clove crushed garlic
  • sea salt to taste


How to make it:
  • You can toss all the salad Ingredients if you like, or lay them out neatly on the plate.
  • Take the olive oil and whisk it with the lemon juice, crushed (through a garlic press) garlic and salt to taste.
  • Taste the dressing, you may like more lemon, or less etc.
  • You can also add shallots to the dressing, if you desire.
  • Either drizzle the dressing over the salad if you lay it out, or toss with the rest of the Ingredients if you decide to have it that way.
  • Crumble the feta over the top and sprinkle the extra parsley.
  • If you really miss the potato, you can add chunks of firm tofu to the salad.
  • This is a great Type O recipe.
  • Bon appetit.
  • P.S. You won't miss the olives or the potato.
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Blood Type Diet Analysis:

Core Ingredients Analysis:
The ingredients in this category are either BTD compliant for all types or the recipe author and/or editor did not suggest a possible substitution. If this category contains avoids for your blood type this recipe may not work for you, unless you feel like you can omit the item or make an appropriate substitution.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Soybean, Tofu
B
A
N
B
N
A
A
N
Sea Salt
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Parsley
B
B
B
B
N
B
B
B
Olive Oil
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
Lemon
B
N
N
B
B
N
N
B
Tuna, Bluefin
N
N
N
B
N
N
N
B
Egg Whole, Chicken
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
B
Garlic
B
N
B
B
N
B
B
B
Tomato
A
A
N
N
N
N
N
B
Dandelion Greens
B
N
B
B
B
N
B
B


Variations and Substitutions Analysis:
This category of ingredients contains possible substitutions that may allow different blood types to use the recipe or ingredients that can be left out of the recipe altogether.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Anchovy
A
A
N
A
N
A
A
A


Macronutrient Analysis:

This recipe may contain macronutrients with important effects on health

  • The recipe may contain ingredients high in lignans
  • The recipe may contain ingredients with phytates
  • The recipe may contain ingredients encourage health microbiome balance
  • The recipe may contain ingredients high in phytoestrogens