RECIPE with SAM SMITH: Try this healthy and tasty Nicoise salad and help yourself to lose weight

SAM SMITH, leader for WeightWatchers in Newton Abbot and Bovey Tracey — who herself has lost 47lbs — encourages readers to fall in love with healthy foods.

This week she shows how to make a tasty Nicoise salad.

Ingredients (serves four):

 500g new potatoes, halved if large; 300g green beans, trimmed; two slices Weight Watchers Brown Danish bread, or one Weight Watchers Petit Pain, cut into 1cm cubes; calorie controlled cooking spray; two little gem lettuces, broken into leaves and roughly torn or 100g bag mixed salad leaves; 250g cherry tomatoes, halved; 10cm piece cucumber, chopped roughly; four spring onions, roughly chopped; two free range eggs; two 180g cans tuna in spring water or brine, drained and flaked; salt and freshly ground black pepper.

For the lemon basil vinaigrette: 8tbsp fat free vinaigrette; 1tbsp chopped fresh basil, plus extra to garnish; zest of half a lemon; 1tbsp lemon juice, to taste.

Method:

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