Niçoise Sandwiches

Ingredients

• 6 ounce albacore tuna in water drained canned
• 0.5 teaspoon pepper black freshly ground
• 1 large hard-cooked egg sliced
• 8 ounce honey-wheat baguette 
• 0.3 cup kalamata olives pitted chopped
• 4 leaf lettuce leaves green chopped
• 1 tablespoon olive oil 
• 8 slices plum tomatoes 2 tomatoes
• 0.3 cup onion red thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 

Equipment

• bowl
• whisk

Directions

1. Combine first 6 ingredients in a medium bowl.
2. Combine vinegar and next 3 ingredients, stirring well with a whisk.
3. Add vinegar mixture to tuna mixture, tossing to coat.
4. Cut a "V"-shaped pocket in top of baguette; remove cut portion, and hollow out inside of bread, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Reserve cut portion and torn bread for another use.
5. . Spoon tuna mixture into hollowed-out baguette, mounding slightly.
6. Cut filled baguette crosswise into 4 equal portions.